Nice video about disco elysium controversy, I don't know the video maker so I can't really vouch for his credibility but most of what he show are interview so it sounds pretty legit. It also kinda act as a behind the scene for the game, there's an interview with the guy who wrote the kuno and I'm pretty sure I would have been able to know he wrote him even if they didn't tell us.
The jist of it seems to be that the person who should be considered the lead writer/director wasn't very professional and was both pretty mean to some employee and kinda stopped working after the game came out when he was supposed to be finishing up the director cut. He also tried to convince the shareholders and employees to let him make a new game in a very loose way with no string attached. While this was happening, one of the shareholder used some clever manoeuvring (possibly illegal, that's where the lawsuits comes in) to become main shareholder and following that he fired the lead writer for, well, not working and openly discussing making his own studio.
Neither of the main player really come out full black or full white. The lead writer seems like success got to his head and its not quite clear if things had gone his way if he would have actually worked on anything. The main shareholder seems very open but there's some important piece of evidence to clear him that are conspicuously absent. Important to say that a lot of people who have been working for the company since the early day decided to stick with the company trough all the trouble, and while they greatly respect the lead writer, they don't really support his version of events.
Still interested in seeing what the lead writer does next and what the company do.
