Swedish video games agency Starbreeze has mentioned that Payday 3 has not met its expectations.
In a release to investors, CEO Tobias Sjögren mentioned that the sport had not carried out in addition to it might have hoped for. It seems that Payday 3 hasn’t offered as a lot as Starbreeze would love, nor has it saved an energetic playerbase.
Sjögren pointed to quite a few situations of video games launching with a less-than-stellar efficiency however turning it round in the long run.
“Our largest focus and absolute precedence, each throughout and after the quarter, are the efforts wanted to make sure that the sport lives as much as expectations,” he mentioned.
“We’re working intently with our co-publishing companion Plaion to determine the adjustments that we’ll implement, in each the short- and long-term, that add essentially the most worth to the gaming expertise. The Payday workforce will in February announce the adjustments and enhancements which might be prioritised for implementation.
“There are numerous examples from the sport trade, the place a problematic preliminary time available on the market is was long-term success. There isn’t a easy recipe out there, however a typical thread from the optimistic examples is to take gamers’ criticism to coronary heart, dare to help your recreation and preserving an open and sincere dialogue together with your stakeholders. That’s precisely what we are actually doing with Payday 3. Few firms are blessed with a model as sturdy as Payday. At a time when our most up-to-date recreation is lagging, Payday 2 has fared barely higher than anticipated financially and with greater than 400,000 energetic gamers in single months through the quarter. It exhibits the power of the model, and our potential to transform these to Payday 3 as we ship on our commitments.”
Sjögren continued, saying that the long run objective was to diversify Starbreeze’s output.
“We are going to do that by growing video games on our personal IPs, on licensed IPs and as writer for different studios’ video games. In December, we have been capable of reveal that our subsequent main inside venture, Baxter, shall be primarily based on Dungeons & Dragons® – the world’s premiere role-playing recreation. Inside our third-party publishing, Roboquest 1.0 was efficiently launched with optimistic impression on each internet gross sales and earnings. We now have greater than six million registered customers in our portal, Starbreeze Nebula.”