The conflict started in 2015 when Patti felt that "the last couple of years it has been a bit silent at the office for my temper. You make a new game every fourth or sixth year, so not much is going on" (my translation)

The resolution to the conflict broke down over who owned the rights of the games

Since 2015 the two creators were not on speaking terms and only communicated through lawyers where each party tried to gain control of the company

On the 10th of November 2015 Arnt Jensen wrote that "after heavy consideration, I have to find other avenues to continue my creative activities through" (my translation)

This shocked Patti who then removed Jensen as the executive from Playdead's CVR registry, since to him it was clear that Jensen didn't want to work there any more

Jensen's lawyers disagreed with this and meant that he only resigned as creative director, not as the co-owner of the company.

After some time, the Danish Business Authority had to force Patti out due to continued disagreement between the two parties

Patti was paid 50 million DKK (~7.2 million USD) for 49 percent of the company

Arnt Jensen refuses to comment

Patti thinks that he wasn't compensated for what the company actually is worth and he would still at any time trade his 50 million DKK for a solution that made him co-director at the company.

When questioned, Patti feels like it is asking about a divorce from a girlfriend. It's very personal.

People probably already know that Dino Patti, co-founder of Playdead, left the studio with the other co-founder Arnt Jensen staying back in July 2016 . Yesterday in the Danish financial news paper Børsen it was revealed that there had been quite a messy divorce between the two with lawyers and having to buy out the co-founder. Here are the Cliff's Notes version (loosely translated)