The sale of the game studio failed, the parent company GTA played a dirty trick to pull employees to work for me

At the end of 2019, Take-Two Interactive, the developer’s parent company GTA – Rockstar Games release schedule has been delayed Kerbal Space Program 2 to fiscal year 2021 (ie about April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021). Then, last February, the company suddenly announced that the game was no longer being developed by Star Theory, but would be transferred to Private Division – a game studio under Take-Two, led by “key members” of Star Theory. At that time, no one knew the story behind this sudden change of name until today.
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According to a new report from Bloomberg, Take-Two once negotiated with Bob Berry and Jonathan Mavor, the two founders of Star Theory to buy the game studio but failed to reach an agreement. Then on December 6, Take-Two unexpectedly withdrew the sponsorship contract for Star Theory and sent a message to the game studio’s staff via LinkedIn, enticing them to switch to work at Private Division.

Unable to resist the temptation, more than a third of Star Theory’s employees, including studio director Jeremy Able, creative director Nate Simpson, and lead producer Nate Robinson agreed to switch to Take-Two. Kerbal 2 was the only project of Star Theory at that time and losing funding plus the influence of Covid-19, the game studio was forced to close on March 4.

According to experts, after this story is revealed, Take-Two’s reputation may be greatly affected because independent game studios now want to cooperate with the company are also very afraid because they can Do everything to achieve your goal.
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Kerbal Space Program 2 is currently being developed by Private Division:

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Announced on Twitter last month, Private Division said that due to the impact of the epidemic, the release schedule of Kerbal Space Program 2 will continue to be delayed slightly, in the fall of 2021.