"There is a new narrative from haters," Off the Grid studio boss says of accusations Gunzilla haven't paid workers on time, claims full-timers' salaries "have never been delayed by more than a week"

Vlad Korolev has done a tweet

The CEO of Gunzilla Games, the workplace down NFT-infected conflict royale crippled Off The Grid, has responded to accusations from erstwhile employees that Gunzilla failed to wage them connected time. He's done truthful successful the signifier of a lengthy tweet which contains some the words "Haters support making predictions. We support delivering" and "We apologize for immoderate inconvenience this whitethorn person caused".

As we reported yesterday, respective ex-Gunzilla workers including animator Paul Creamer and endowment acquisition pb Anna Savina accused the workplace connected LinkedIn of important outgo delays for their work. "Gunzilla Games has not paid its employees for galore months but inactive expects them to work," Creamer claimed. "I person personally not been paid since October 2025. Some person had their wage delayed adjacent longer. I foolishly worked for 3 other months (October, November and December) with assurances that delays successful outgo would beryllium resolved."

Now, Gunzilla CEO Vlad Korolev, whom Creamer accused of "not being truthful" astir the delays, has responded to the allegations successful a lengthy tweet which besides sees him boast astir Off the Grid's occurrence and seemingly support crunch practices astatine the studio. "While radical who person ne'er played Off the Grid and person ne'er built a concern beryllium and dispersed [fear, uncertainty, and doubt] to workplace a fewer views — targeting the biggest web3 crippled ever created, a crippled that represents not lone itself but the full web3 gaming manufacture successful beforehand of accepted gaming — we volition support gathering for the millions of players who really emotion our product," helium wrote.

He went connected to asseverate that passim the six years of the game's improvement "there has ne'er been a azygous time wherever anyone worked successful a 'work-life balance' mode — it has been a day-and-night combat to vessel a task of the standard of Call of Duty, built by an autarkic studio".

Having spent capable clip yelling astatine clouds, Korolev past addressed the allegations astir delayed payments:

Today determination is simply a caller communicative from haters — that Gunzilla incorrectly laid disconnected contractors oregon paid them with delays. Yes, we are optimising costs — similar each institution successful gaming, crypto, and tech is doing close now. We person been doing this for implicit a year.

And yes, to not disrupt institution operations, immoderate payments whitethorn beryllium scheduled successful a mode that works for the company’s currency travel — not ever for everyone individually. That’s the world of the satellite we unrecorded in. But to support the interests of our players and our full-time authoritative employees — whose salaries, implicit six years, person ne'er been delayed by much than a week — we run astatine a gait that ensures the institution continues moving forward.

And of course, we grant each obligation. We apologise for immoderate inconvenience this whitethorn person caused. It’s besides worthy noting that 1 of the loudest voices — a contractor who finished moving with america conscionable a week agone — was repaid immediately.

Korolev specifically asserting that a "full-time authoritative employees" haven't faced important delays, but not lumping contractors successful with that makes it dependable similar they've been the radical astir affected by this scheduling of payments "in a mode that works for the company’s currency flow". What could besides muddy the waters somewhat present is immoderate unit who've been moving what would magnitude to full-time hours connected a freelance basis, and truthful would person been invoicing Gunzilla for payments fundamentally amounting to full-time salaries.

"While our beloved haters support trying to find caller reasons wherefore Gunzilla should neglect — we volition support responding with achievements," Korolev wrote to circular retired his post, pointing to Gunzilla's ownership of Game Informer having seen the institution declared 1 of 'the astir innovative gaming companies of 2026' successful an nonfiction from concern mag Fast Company.