General / Off-Topic Frontier Revenue Increases to £36m

Ian Skippy · Apr 19, 2017

Barking_Mad said:
For reference Planet Coaster looks to have sold approx 650k copies so far. Either way, it's a healthy position and should put pay to any idea they will have to cut back on ED development through financial pressures alone.

Yup, and it will be replaced by 'see, they are making money by putting energy in other projects!'.

Flimley · Apr 19, 2017

Congratulation Frontier team. !
I'm so happy about this. I have invested so much time and money into this game, betting on it being the game for me. Looking forward many shiny updates galore future muchly lots !

Flimley

Barking_Mad · Apr 19, 2017

sleutelbos said:
Yup, and it will be replaced by 'see, they are making money by putting energy in other projects!'.

Well yes, there is that. lol

PeachingTony · Apr 19, 2017

"Alliance News"? I won't believe it until confirmed by the Imperial Herald.

Blackcompany · Apr 19, 2017

Expected Revenue.

Expected.

Not trying to be a doomsayer. Just pointing that out.

This is probably based on several things:

ED 2.3 and the sale. How'd that go? Seriously, cause I have no idea.

PS4 port

Plans for Coaster may be in the works?

Upcoming 2.4 for ED, and maybe a 3.0 announcement expected to drive sales?

Not saying things are good. Well, I mean, they aren't good, in terms of player confidence in the product. But fiscally? Just remember that key word: Expected.

They expected good sales from Horizons too remember.

Vingtetun · Apr 19, 2017

Blackcompany said:
Expected Revenue.

Expected.

Not trying to be a doomsayer. Just pointing that out.

This is probably based on several things:

ED 2.3 and the sale. How'd that go? Seriously, cause I have no idea.

PS4 port

Plans for Coaster may be in the works?

Upcoming 2.4 for ED, and maybe a 3.0 announcement expected to drive sales?

Not saying things are good. Well, I mean, they aren't good, in terms of player confidence in the product. But fiscally? Just remember that key word: Expected.

They expected good sales from Horizons too remember.

expected as in "we know what the numbers are up to march 31st but are awaiting final sign off from the accountants"

SeaFireliv · Apr 19, 2017

Barking_Mad said:
Pay increases and pizza all round.

So we can have some compensation for the fiasco at the weekend?

Blackcompany · Apr 19, 2017

Vingtetun said:
expected as in "we know what the numbers are up to march 31st but are awaiting final sign off from the accountants"

Aye, could be that too. Probably is.

Hopefully this means more meat on the Elite bones soon.

LeoBartlet · Apr 19, 2017

Huros said:
Now they have had the money from our pockets maybe we could have some permanence, content and ability to actually make a difference in this game. That, or they won't be getting much more out of me.

News just in: Trading is suspended on Frontier shares after Huros threatens to withdraw funding.

Andovar · Apr 19, 2017

SeaFireliv said:
So we can have some compensation for the fiasco at the weekend?

You can have a slice.
Only plain though... pepperoni costs extra.

Gimi · Apr 19, 2017

Blackcompany said:
Expected Revenue.

Expected.

Not trying to be a doomsayer. Just pointing that out.

This is probably based on several things:

ED 2.3 and the sale. How'd that go? Seriously, cause I have no idea.

PS4 port

Plans for Coaster may be in the works?

Upcoming 2.4 for ED, and maybe a 3.0 announcement expected to drive sales?

Not saying things are good. Well, I mean, they aren't good, in terms of player confidence in the product. But fiscally? Just remember that key word: Expected.

They expected good sales from Horizons too remember.

The estimate only includes revenues up to 31 March 2017.

Sales based upon 2.3, 2.4, PS4, ongoing sale are not included in that estimate. Fiscal year and all that.

Edit: Also Ninja'ed by Vingtetun

EdzUp · Apr 19, 2017

I'm glad about this and it shows that pay to win isn't the only model for us coders to make money on

lysan · Apr 19, 2017

Shares are up, happy days.....

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Winterwalker · Apr 19, 2017

Excellent.

lysan · Apr 19, 2017

ArchEmperor said:
Chill, David Braben is from the old school hardcore "dreams will come true" era. He is a god, he will make it happen, and then some!

Our wildest most ecstatic dreaming brains can not even begin to comprehend the amazing fantastic stuff that is going to happen with Elite: Dangerous the coming years.

Sounds more like that Wing Commander dude.....

Barking_Mad · Apr 19, 2017

Im just glad it keeps coders in a job (games development can be a pretty rough place for many people in the business - no unions!) and we get more ED. I hope a nice bonus for everyone is in the pipeline.

And pizza, obvs.

SlackR · Apr 19, 2017

This can only be good news. If they include VR support for planet coaster they'd sell at least one more copy!

Chrizaim · Apr 19, 2017

Happy days

That should allow re-investment into ED whoop

wrmiller · Apr 19, 2017

So FD is working on new revenue (read new games). This comes as no surprise of course, but this could relegate ED to maintenance status, i.e., minimal changes, permanently. Not a scenario I'm looking forward to...

S3B4ST13N · Apr 19, 2017

wrmiller said:
So FD is working on new revenue (read new games). This comes as no surprise of course, but this could relegate ED to maintenance status, i.e., minimal changes, permanently. Not a scenario I'm looking forward to...

Can I just safely assume you have literally no experience in the software development field and leave it at that?