A few months after finding a publisher to finance and publish Payday 3, Starbreze presented his mid-term results of the year and gave some news from the development of his next game.
At first glance, Starbrezee does not seem to have found a real economic serenity, as shown by this operating result that plunges into the red and this new net loss of 7.8 million euros in the first half of 2021. Starbrezee, however, this loss arises from punctual effects of the sale of the mobile game Payday Crime War whose development and publishing have been sold to Popreach last April. Without this exceptional factor, Starbreze claims that it would have posted a € 1.6 million earnings of taxes.
STARBREEZE RESULTS
Period | Turnover | Operating profit | Net profit
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January 2020 - June 2020 | 5.2 million euros | 1.1 million euros | \ - 10.3 million euros
January 2021 - June 2021 | 5.8 million euros | \ - 5.7 million euros | \ - 7.8 million euros
The increase in revenue at 5.8 million euros shows in any case that Payday 2 , the only game currently operated by Starbrezee, is still doing so well. The sales of the game on Steam increased by 22% compared to last year and the title had more than 800,000 active players in June, a 35% increase compared to the month of June 2020. Players continue to continue Adhere to the additional content developed by STARBREEZE, which during this time advances on the yard Payday 3 . Accompanied by Koch Media, the game is now in the production phase and always aims at 2023 output on consoles and PCs.
The development of Payday 3 is progressing and we have reached the production phase, which means that the team takes care of creating the content that will be available at the start of the game. The Unreal engine provides us with a solid basis with our Clean experience and that of our coeder Koch Media in terms of development on multiple platforms simultaneously_ , commented Tobias Sjögren, CEO of Starbreeze, which now employs 136 people versus 125 a year earlier.
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