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Starbreeze sells shares of the company for funding Payday 3 and TWD.
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It had a 31,465 peak concurrent player count on Steam today, and had approximately 846,451 unique players on Steam within the last two weeks.
It's not PUBG, but it's still pretty healthy.
Those are some great numbers! I have no idea whether or not to get this game for Switch, though. No way to tell how future support is gonna go.
Ehhhhh console support for this game is pretty bad, iirc. PC is certainly the preferred platform.
Odd that they're that strapped for funds. Hoping that TWD game alleviates some of that concern.
A lot of people don't like the console versions of Payday but I don't think they're serviceable.
I was wondering the same, as someone who knows absolutely nothing about how company finances work.
Huh, that's kind of different. Could be that they expanded too quickly and suddenly found themselves short on cash.
In only like 5 years they bought Overkill, bought the Payday IP, bought an LA studio that started working on a presumably cancelled Toys to Life game, began developing a VR headset, and began signing on to publish a ton of indie games. That's a lot of business venture with only one, maybe two, hits in that time frame (Payday 2 and Dead by Daylight).
But Payday 3 and Walking Dead will undoubtedly bring in a ton of money so I'm not worried about them.
In only like 5 years they bought Overkill, bought the Payday IP, bought an LA studio that started working on a presumably cancelled Toys to Life game, began developing a VR headset, and began signing on to publish a ton of indie games. That's a lot of business venture with only one, maybe two, hits in that time frame (Payday 2 and Dead by Daylight).
But Payday 3 and Walking Dead will undoubtedly bring in a ton of money so I'm not worried about them.
Need to put all that money into creating decent stealth mechanics. So fucking wonky. Stopped even trying and just go loud on every fucking thing. ( More fun anyway. :P )
I want them look at Hitman and incorporate its mechanics into the heists.
I want them look at Hitman and incorporate its mechanics into the heists.
Even if it doesn't come out as a dumpster fire, it likely wont get continuing support like the PC version. I'd be surprised if it even gets the upcoming difficulty and skill changes that they're going to be beta testing in the next couple weeks.
Is a Zombie game really what you want to invest in now? Isn't that crazy over?
And another MP shooter?
I'd guess the existing base for PD2 is mostly people who already have invested a bunch of money and time into that. And the IP is kind of damaged with how they have handled it, no?
And another MP shooter?
I'd guess the existing base for PD2 is mostly people who already have invested a bunch of money and time into that. And the IP is kind of damaged with how they have handled it, no?
Yes, but that was about 14 years ago and as I understand it most of the creative team left to form Machinegames and were bought out by Bethesda.
Not surprising. Too many fingers in too many pies too quickly without notable success coming back from most of them, and the PD2 revenue stream can't be too healthy almost five years later. Wonder how much they burned on RAID, and more importantly, how they couldn't see what a mess that game was shaping up to be ahead of time.
At least they shouldn't have too much trouble finding staff familiar with UE4 to spend that money on.
At least they shouldn't have too much trouble finding staff familiar with UE4 to spend that money on.
Their TWD game has been in the works for years now. Been pushed back a couple times.
Payday not make them enough money or something? Blow all the dosh on the live action trailers too quickly?
There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Syndicate was also a damn great idea that was just executed semi-badly.
That is why Riddick was so fantastic.
Indeed, I love the Riddick videogame.
The people who worked at Starbreeze during the Riddick days are at MachineGames now. Currently Starbreeze basically just exists as a publisher for Payday.
I think I'm one of the few folks who loves the Syndicate fps. I honestly think it's really underrated, plus it's got fantastic weapons and sound design. MachineGames folks should have taken the sound designer with them.
I have it for X360 because it came from Starbreez (Also have The Darkness and the Riddick titles, just because). Syndicate looks Godly, so whenever ill go through my backlog, ill be sure to give it a go. Looks oodles of fun, and reminds me of Mirror's Edge visually (Also a title i have, hah)
I'll be honest here and say the reason I like it so much is because of how good the guns sound and feel. Storywise ? Not as good as The Darkness/The Riddick, I can definitely say that. Still I found it quite interesting overall. The coop was terrific fun as well but unfortunately I don't think you'll get to play unless you have friends/folks from here willing to play it with you.
Why? It's releasing on switch in a month . I was thinking of getting it
Are they still working on their own VR headset? Cause....you know....I feel like that might have not been a smart decision.
Fuck I forgot Syndicate was a game.
Fuck me I'm playing through that. I'm on a slow ride to play through every FPS on the 360 and I remember this being good, heh.
Fuck me I'm playing through that. I'm on a slow ride to play through every FPS on the 360 and I remember this being good, heh.
Normal (and relatively boring) way for businesses to raise funds from institutional investors. There's nothing all that exciting about the sale, aside from the mention of Starbreeze working on unannounced products.
I remember thoroughly enjoying the co-op aspect of it. The campaign was overall a bit disappointing. The game also came at the end of the generation. At that point it felt like only First party titles did well on PS3/360.
Stock went up for some time, but after Raid flopped and this announcement, the stock has tanked.
I never like to see any game bomb but man, everything about Raid screamed bomb. Not sure what they were thinking banking on it so much especially with it being hardly more than a reskin of Payday.
Hopefully TWD isn't just Payday with zombies and has some meaningful mechanics and traits of its own.
Hopefully TWD isn't just Payday with zombies and has some meaningful mechanics and traits of its own.
They handed off the rest of their outstanding investment ownership to their partner, so effectively no.