Starbreeze is looking for a publishing partner for Payday 3

Starbreeze is looking for for a publication partner for Payday 3

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Payday publisher Starbreeze didn't have a good 2019, following it filing for reconstruction to obviate failure in December the previous year. It sold off studios, laid forth 25 per centum of its employees and put well-nig of its eggs in the Payday basket. It's now released its finish of year earnings report, and while much of it makes for gloomy reading, there's get off at the end of the burrow for the newspaper publisher.

Starbreeze gone the whole year in reconstruction, reorganising the company so IT could stay on answer, so during that time it wasn't releasing new games. For the full year, the loss before tax was 452.4 million SEK, which amounts to £32.2 million/$46.9 million, though that's significantly to a lesser degree the the loss of complete a billion SEK reported the anterior year.

Payday has become something of a beacon light of promise for the struggling caller. In October, it announced that Payday 2 was returning to active development and that it was hoping to release Payday 3 in the succeeding few age.

CEO Mikael Nermark said that the new DLC for Payday 2 generated better than expected sales and interest, leading to the highest concurrent player count "in whatsoever clock." The average player count in front Payday 2 went backwards into active development sat round 10,000, accordant to Steam Charts, only in November it jumped up to 28,000.

Many Payday 2 updates will appear this year, also.

"This is a good sign that confirms the interest in a future release of Payday 3 and lays a stable foundation for continued efforts," Starbreeze will handout additional updates to Payday 2 in 2020. Atomic number 3 of 3 January, sales will gain further momentum finished the increase in Starbreeze's share of sales via Steam clean from 70 to 75 percent."

As for the sequel, Starbreeze is currently looking for a publishing better hal that can "provide financial stableness and possesses the marketing and distribution resources required to power the best possible launch and further development of the product." It's aiming to present a publishing agreement to investors soon, in front the end of the get-go half of 2020.

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