A Medium post from a co-founder of Disco Elysium studio and art collective ZA/UM raised eyebrows over the weekend by suggesting that several of the key creative leads behind the game have left the company. Now, three of those staffers have confirmed that they no longer work at the acclaimed developer, leaving fans wondering just what happened.

The three staffers in question are lead writer and designer Robert Kurvitz, lead artist Aleksander Rostov, and writer Helen Hindpere. The Medium post in question, written by Martin Luiga--a founding member of ZA/UM and an editor on Disco Elysium--announced the dissolution of ZA/UM as an art collective, as well as the departures of Kurvitz, Rostov, and Hindpere.

In the post, Luiga states that the staffers left the company sometime near the end of 2021, and that their leaving the company was "involuntary." He also says that this means "bad news" for fans who are waiting for a follow-up to Disco Elysium. The three creatives confirmed that they no longer work at the company via a tweet from Rostov's account. In a comment on the post, Luiga seems to point to the initial investors in the game as the source of the discord, comparing them to "a kleptomaniac manipulating dozens of people to steal from themselves."