Det startede med at Nacons primære økonomiske partner, Big Ben, havde betalingsproblemer, som så har gjort at Nacon selv, som udgiver, har erklæret sig insolvent. Som regel etableres der en beskyttelsesplan for de indviduelle studier, der gør at de kan klare sig mens ledelsen finder en løsning. Men det lader ikke til at være tilfældet her.
Fire Nacon-studier erklærede sig nemlig også insolvente kort efter, og det får nu massiv kritik fra den franske fagforening Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo, som siger at Nacon nu er offer for "years of mismanagement and strategic nothingness":
"Years of mismanagement and strategic nothingness, both at the group and company levels, have blocked studios from modernizing, organizing and developing themselves. Today, even after completely emptying its studios coffers - dozens of million euros which should have ensured ensured studio stability and safe jobs! - Nacon comes out with a deficit.
Makeshit solutions like canceling all recruitments and raises for more than a year, or snake oil solutions like 'AI,' which Nacon is gradually forcing on its studios without even knowing what for, will not save money and clean up the company accounts. The deterioration of working conditions in the last years, and the creation of new studios with the barely hidden goal of sabotaging existing ones, were already convoluted ways of reducing headcount and they only made matters worse."
Det er blandt Spiders, der lige har udgivet Greedfall: The Dying World, og Cyanide, hvis datterstudie Big Bad Wolf skal til at udgive Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss, der er insolvente nu, og det vides ikke om de kan finde ud af en løsning i tide.