"There is no way a boardroom can direct Disco Elysium 2": Community reacts to the news of founding members "involuntarily" leaving the company

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For those who love it, Disco Elysium remains an experience like none other. The world is carefully and tightly knit, with its stories and characters drawing inspiration from the world at large and the devs themselves. Yet, according to recent developments, these very members who breathed the title into life are no longer part of the ZA/UM company.

Martin Luiga, a founding member and Secretary of the ZA/UM Cultural Association, shared a post on Medium where he stated that the association was being dissolved. He clarified that the cultural association should not be confused with the ZA/UM company.

He went on to state that neither Robert Kurvitz, lead designer, Helen Hindpere, writer, nor art director Aleksander Rostov are working at the company anymore and "involuntarily" left it at the end of last year. Luiga notes that this:

Speaking about the reason for the dissolution, Luiga explained that "it no longer represents the ethos it was founded on" and that "people and ideas are meant to be eternal; organizations may well be temporary."

He went on to mention that the organization was indeed successful and the mistakes made were contingent, "determined by the sociocultural conditions" they were thrown into. He signed off on a bittersweet note:

The news would likely come as a surprise to many fans who regularly spent their time in Disco Elysium's beautiful world and were hopeful that a sequel from ZA/UM would further explore the lore. Earlier this year, ZA/UM had a job posting for artists with "a love of sci-fi and space."

As the news spread, speculation started to run wild regarding the reason behind the core members leaving, with many pointing fingers towards the tie-up announced by Amazon to bring Disco Elysium to the silver