Frontier expects to add another 50-60 people to its headcount of 380 over the coming year.
Some will work on new titles that are still under wraps. But many are supporting its existing franchises with updates. Today, the ‘live games’ phenomenon means the release of a title is only the start of its life.
“Once you’re online in the digital world, there’s a model to keep sustaining a game and improving it,” says David.
“Look at Elite Dangerous. It’s now in its fifth financial year since it was released and every day there’s been a new story in the game, every week there’s been new content. Roughly every quarter there’s been an update. A lot of those have been free, some have been paid.
“It really builds a community because the game is continuing to change.”
More than 100 staff continue to work on Elite Dangerous, a massively multiplayer space epic in which players take control of their own spacecraft in a cutthroat galaxy.
The number indicates that Frontier has some big surprises in store for players, but David is coy.
“We’ve got some amazing things to come in Elite Dangerous, which we haven’t talked about yet,” he says. “There’s also the ‘Beyond’ series of updates, which are lovely in their own right. We have a long future planned for Elite – it’s very exciting.”
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