RonnieB@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoPalworld faces the difficult choice of whether to become a live-service game or stay buy-to-play, PocketPair’s CEO saysautomaton-media.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPalworld faces the difficult choice of whether to become a live-service game or stay buy-to-play, PocketPair’s CEO saysautomaton-media.comRonnieB@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.works
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoDidn’t they make 10-100s millions of dollars on this? Pays a lot of salaries for a while.
minus-squaredodos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAccording to their careers page, they have about 60 employees. And, knowing japanese game dev salaries, a lot of those devs (excluding senior devs) probably make around 30-50k a year depending on seniority unless it’s a unicorn company.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoYeah…that changes the numbers. More like 10-20 years to do just about anything. Somehow the urgency just drains right out of this for me.
minus-squareSpacetimeMachine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIirc they started paying their devs waaaay more after the game sold a ton.
minus-squareGrass@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agono line must go up, only up, up now and up tomorrow and the days after too. fire all the devs too, paying them makes line go down.
Didn’t they make 10-100s millions of dollars on this? Pays a lot of salaries for a while.
According to their careers page, they have about 60 employees. And, knowing japanese game dev salaries, a lot of those devs (excluding senior devs) probably make around 30-50k a year depending on seniority unless it’s a unicorn company.
Yeah…that changes the numbers. More like 10-20 years to do just about anything.
Somehow the urgency just drains right out of this for me.
Iirc they started paying their devs waaaay more after the game sold a ton.
no line must go up, only up, up now and up tomorrow and the days after too. fire all the devs too, paying them makes line go down.