Starbreeze studios & Overkill Software, (famous for their cooperative heist franchise Payday . the horror shooter mash up The Darkness and for last years indie darling. “The single player co-op game Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons.”) Announced that after 15 years of major financial lost, that the second game in the Payday franchise Payday 2 has made, on its own $5.3 Million in the last fiscal quarter.
Accompanying the financial news Starbreeze CEO Bo Andersson Klint said.“To put the past six months in perspective, I would like to highlight that Starbreeze historically, from 1998 to June 2013, accumulated a total loss of SEK 94 million ($14.4 million),” He also said. “Thanks to our new business model, reorganization and a focus on our own brands, we have—in only two quarters—generated a profit before tax of SEK 104 million ($16 million).”
Clint also said in terms of Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons that Brothers has finally started paying royalties, with Starbreeze saying Brothers brought in $250,000 in the last fiscal quarter.
Now could they possibly fix the console problems and give us DLC?
doubtful…this is the new trend these days for pc companies,to put out games on consoles as a quick cashgrab and then forget it exists…even valve has done it and they’re hardly pinching pennies 🙁
Keep in mind that PC support is much easier to have. Coding is simple and more people buy it because it is cheaper in the end. I am a console gamer, and admittedly not really a DLC person. I only download DLC for games I like, and even then I barely play it. Its costly, and takes time to install.
DLC not coming to consoles is one thing,though its hardly impossible to get approved and put out on,but patches are another as they are giving a terrible broken version of their games to console players to get their base money and then pretending like it doesn’t exist