Weird given Dead Island 2 was one of their best selling games this year.
Wonder if this will affect Piranha Bytes?
Wonder if this will affect Piranha Bytes?
It shows that Embracer ordered all business units to optimize and to reduce risk. A visible example of the latter is that the inventory for their board game company Asmodee has been reduced massively. It remains to be seen how much they ramp up for Christmas though.Weird given Dead Island 2 was one of their best selling games this year.
Wonder if this will affect Piranha Bytes?
Is it safe to assume that their next project is Elex 3?PB has one thing going for them: They've collected ca. 3M€ of funding for their next game from the country. The usual amount they give is 25% of the budget. Maybe loca comes on top, and marketing certainly. Nevertheless it's a reasonably low risk project, given that PBs games sell forever.
Not confirmed, but everybody expects it.Is it safe to assume that their next project is Elex 3?
They need to work on making a better endgame. I thought Elex 2 started out great but really fell apart towards the end.Not confirmed, but everybody expects it.
Things could get dangerous when they ship it. Whatever they pitch after Elex 3 will probably require a bigger budget. And Gothic is taken.
Unfortunately no. PB is a 100% daughter company of the Embracer Group, held through THQ Nordic. Of course the latter wanted to get the Gothic brand running again. I'm sure they've talked to PB about it. But as we all know, THQ ended up founding a new studio in Spain for it.They still own the Gothic IP though, don't they? Despite Gothic getting a remake, they could always choose to make another game in that world if they wanted. However, I recall someone (maybe Björn?) saying that they would not return to it.
Those layoffs represent around 5 percent of Embracer's total workforce, and were made despite net sales increasing by 13 percent year-on-year to SEK 1.8 billion ($170.5 million) during Q2.
Yeah, good progress indeed."it's been an agonising process to see the sort of headcount [reduction], but we know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."