Spintires Creator Claims Publisher Has Frozen Him Out Of His Own Game

In a message posted on Russian social network VK, Spintires developer Pavel Zagrebelnyj accused the UK publisher Oovee of taking the money and running, which left him unable to update the game.

Zagrebelnyj commented: “Sad news… just seemed like the development process started, I almost finished my map and tools to develop mods (free upgrade)… as our Englishmen from oovee together with the loot disappeared. I don’t have permissions to upload the update to Steam. So now I’ll complete and release map editor, in the version it is now, and this will be end of Spintires.”

Zagrebelnyj also claimed that Oovee was deleting his posts which cut him off from a large part of his audience. Oovee has denied the allegations, and said that Zagrebelnyj has been paid in full and that there is no breach of contract on either side.

Oovee said: “Unfortunately there have been some communication issues recently which appear to have lead to this post being made by Pavel on the Russian forum. Oovee has not been notified of any contract terminations or anything of that matter—a discussion will be held on the subject to rectify any misunderstandings.”

Regarding Spintires’ future updates Oovee commented: “As Oovee owns the rights to Spintires, we have no plans of our own to halt and/or cease to develop the game further.”

Zagrebelnyj said he still holds the rights to the technology and source code and may use it to create another, similar game.

For more on Spintires check out the official site.