STARBREEZE: Always losses, but payday 2 still ensures

STARBREEZE A certainly found in 505 games the publishing partner he was looking for to develop Payday 3, but the Swedish studio continues to wade in the financial difficulties, as evidenced by its results for the year 2021.

If the faithful Community of Payday 2 allows Starbreeze to approach the 12 million euros of turnover over the year, the company remains in the red with an operational loss of 5 million euros and a net loss close to 10 million euros. The management then focuses on the positive, namely that Payday 2 had an average of 788,000 active users each month in 2021, 10 years after the debut of a franchise that generated not far from 95 million euros since its inception.

STARBREEZE RESULTS

Period	Turnover	Operating profit	Net profit
January 2020 - December 2020	11.2 million euros	1 million euros	\ - 12.3 million euros
January 2021 - December 2021	11.9 million euros	\ - 5 million euros	\ - 9.8 million euros

In 2021, the Payday franchise generated a turnover of 11.3 million euros, up 16% compared to 2020, mainly thanks to the PC. Remember it, it is the only platform to benefit from the additional content developed by Starbreeze. Reassured, the consoles and PC players will be entitled to the same treatment once Payday 3 will be available. In October, Starbrezee launched a Starbreeze Accounts portal that will connect its different products to all platforms.

Since we talk about it, know that "* The development of Payday 3 takes place as planned" and that the site Progress week after week ", tells us the CEO Tobias Sjögren. The game is always expected in 2023, while Starbreeze plans to release other games still not announced by 2025. These games will not necessarily be developed internally or necessarily based on the Payday license, but we imagine that Starbrezee will advance as cautiously as possible, which had abandoned all its other projects To avoid bankruptcy in 2019. A caution embodied by the timid growth of the workforce which, in the space of one year, increased from 124 to 138 employees.