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Parallax_
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 Posted: Thu, 5th Feb 2009 09:25 Post subject: Stardock Opening Second Studio, Plans New PC RPG |
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The IT industry as a whole is starting to cut their workforces:
- EA 10%
- THQ 25%
- Free Radical Fires 75% of Staff
- AMD 9% (as well as salary cuts)
- Factor 5 Axes 50%
- 70% of Funcom US workforce
- etc
In the midst of this, Stardock is opening a second studio.
| Quote: | Helped in part by generous Michigan tax breaks, developer/publisher Stardock (Sins of a Solar Empire, Demigod) is planning a $900,000 expansion of its headquarters to accomodate development of a new PC roleplaying game.
The expansion will create some 53 jobs, pushing the company's workforce to well over 100 employees--an impressive number for the once-modest Plymouth, Michigan based studio. |
Full article here
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Feb 2009 09:29 Post subject: |
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That's cus they're too small to be governed by Wall Street analysts' predictions. Are they even public?
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Feb 2009 11:15 Post subject: |
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No its because they run a robust business model that works.
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Feb 2009 11:28 Post subject: |
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I didn't know where to post this, but I just completed a survey for them and got a 20% off universal coupon, so if anyone is interested here's the info :
| Quote: | Thank you for taking the time to help us create a better user experience for you!
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Coupon Code: SURVEY-2009
Shop at ImpulseDriven.com
Offer applies to purchases over $8.00. This offer can not be combined with any other offer. Expires on November 1, 2009. |
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Big_Gun
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Sep 2009 01:37 Post subject: |
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| tainted4ever wrote: | | That's cus they're too small to be governed by Wall Street analysts' predictions. Are they even public? |
Nope. They company is owned mostly by frogboy along with a few current and former employees.
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Big_Gun
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Sep 2009 01:41 Post subject: |
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"I think it has more to do with the fact that Stardock keeps their overhead costs very low. They spent less than $500,000 on Sins of a Solar Empire. Even 100K copies sold would have meant massive profits for them.
They also don't spend much on marketing, only catering to their core audience through ads in magazines like PC Gamer or PC Zone.
Their DRM stance doesn't hurt them because they aren't some massive corporation that spends $15million on every game. That is where it gets risky for companies like EA. They are spending $15 million dollars on their major projects(sure there are some that don't even approach that, but the big titles like Spore, Crysis, Dragon Age, Far Cry 2, and a few others are all sitting at around $15-20 million to develop), which means that unless it goes platinum, they won't be breaking even.
As a smaller company with lower overheads, their DRM stance works better for them.
There is a lot of thought that goes in to DRM policies, and although Stardock is very much an idealistic company, there is never just one right solution.
You can insist that DRM serves no purpose, but it is better safe than sorry for companies like EA who answer to investors every day... If a game sold poorly on PC and had no DRM, EA and Ubisoft would have investors so far up their @ss that they wouldn't be able to move. Privately owned and publicly traded companies face two VERY DIFFERENT situations.
Stardock can afford to be idealistic. Nobody is crawling up their @ss wondering how they are protecting their investments..." "
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Sep 2009 03:41 Post subject: |
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| Big_Gun wrote: | | " If a game sold poorly on PC and had no DRM, EA and Ubisoft would have investors so far up their @ss that they wouldn't be able to move |
And what about when a DRM filled game Fails ??
And what when a non DRM game sells shitloads ?
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crossmr
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Sep 2009 03:49 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Even 100K copies sold would have meant massive profits for them. |
How many copies did they actually sell?
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Sep 2009 04:08 Post subject: |
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| -=Cartoon=- wrote: | | Big_Gun wrote: | | " If a game sold poorly on PC and had no DRM, EA and Ubisoft would have investors so far up their @ss that they wouldn't be able to move |
And what about when a DRM filled game Fails ??
And what when a non DRM game sells shitloads ? |
I don't understand what your expecting for an answer. i thought it was pretty plain.
The big companies have DRM to protect their games because investors would be crawling up their ass cracks.
Smaller companies with no drm... it doesn't have to sell as many copies to be successful because the cost to make it isn't as high. If it does fail, then they are out of profit just like a bigger company would be.
Slowly but surely I think companies are starting to see a lot of these DRM schemes do nothing to protect them.
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Big_Gun
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Sep 2009 04:10 Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: | | Quote: | | Even 100K copies sold would have meant massive profits for them. |
How many copies did they actually sell? |
From August 2008:
"Brad Wardell took the opportunity to confirm that Sins of a Solar Empire has exceeded 500,000 copies sold and said that more than 20% of these sales were made through online sales."
http://forums.techarena.in/video-games/1034358.htm
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| Posted: Tue, 29th Sep 2009 05:53 Post subject: |
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Awesome - their headquarters is a couple miles down the road from my house.
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Nov 2011 21:44 Post subject: |
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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38604/Stardock_Bringing_Games_To_Steam_Following_Impulse_Sale.php
| Quote: | "With the sale of our former PC digital download technology to GameStop earlier this year, we no longer have any conflicts of interest in offering our titles to other digital distribution channels," Stardock CEO Brad Wardell said in a statement.
Other Stardock titles will be coming to Steam "in the coming weeks" Wardell said, and the company is also planning "more distribution platform announcements" in that time frame to "give fans the opportunity to play on the platform of their choice." |
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