Frontier have 600 staff.. Hello Games have 26
Please do a 'Hello Games' an turn this sucker round
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Frontier like Dinosaurs and Zoos, they are also thinking of making gaming inroads into WH40K. https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/frontier-announces-rts-warhammer-games
Braben is a 30% shareholder and some of his friends are heavily invested too
but 66% are foreign shareholders that only care for bonuses and earnings, not games.
Most of the directors aren't foreign
Even if you subdivide that number into 6 titles being produced this year it's not flattering
Precisely most of those investors are English with close ties to David himself, some would even call them friendsShareholder Information - Frontier Developments plc.
Director holdings and significant shareholders information.www.frontier.co.uk
You're reading it wrong.
32.8% is Braben and relative
28.7% are significant outside
38.5% are outside shares less than 3%
So:
32.8% are in direct control of Braben
67.2% are in the hands of others.
Point is they have the numbers that are already being payed.. there is a 10m cashflow a year just sloshing into the bank in liquid assets. If they wanted to they could do this. I believe David wants to ultimately, I would implore him to turn it around and also ask.."What the hell have they been doing all this time??"
Look at the relationships of who those investors are, and yes of course he can't increase his share percentage without making an offer to take it private.
that's amazing that you actually think this is a reasonable thing to do
get a refund and move on with your life if videogames are causing you this much stress.
Which will not happen. FDev doesn't have the capital to go entirely private. Which means the investors will force his hand as had happened with the Odyssey release.
Unless he becomes fully independent, which is not achievable right now, Odyssey can't be turned around because the investors won't let them do it. There's no profit in it.
Of course it's reasonable, as is mentioned in the title it's been done before, also who are you to tell me what to do?
Of course there's profit in it.. invest now to save your flagship brand or risk losing the confidence of investors in your future growth plans. Anyway we are veering nearly off topic, the point I'm making is the sheer numbers that Frontier has at it's disposal.
there's more profit in making other working titles more profitable than trying to repair a sinking ship. ED is a sinking ship, it sunk slowly once it has lost its connection to the core, which began with Horizons. Odyssey release accelerated that. Frontier has been working around the minimally viable product principle because their investors made them do so.
I am hoping that you are wrong on that one as is every other investor out there.. They are banking on growth in ED this year and so if he's to please investors he basically has to turn it around.
They have Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, JWE, Lemnis Gate and a few prestigious Warhammer titles in the pipeline. It'd be more profitable for them to drop ED than to try to repair it.
Definitely not more profitable to drop it.. Look it up! and also suicidal from an investor point of view. Anyway they have the numbers so what I'm saying is they can do it if they wish to, it'll take more investment but just look at the difference in staff, even if you take off 100 staff for things like maintanence.. that's still about 3 times the staff per title that's allocated.