Outriders developer People Can Fly claim they're yet to make a profit from the game - shanklehationen2001

Polish studio apartment Mass Bottom Fly has inferred that multiplayer shooter Outriders has failed to make a profit in the first quarter since launch.

That's according to a note of hand to investors from parent company PCF group (as spotted away GamesIndustry.game). The note claims IT has even to receive royalty payments from publisher Square Enix, which it says were to be paid after the latter's costs were cloaked. Some royalties generated were suppositional to be paid within 45 days of the end of the after part following the game's set up, putting the deadline at Monday.

Even so, according to People Can Fly, no so much defrayment has been made. The note to investors reads (A translated by Google): "We preceptor't have whatever sales figures for Outriders – we estimate it at between 2 and 3 million units and pretended that this was a ensue that would ensure profitability for this project in the first quarter of sales. This in all probability means that, according to Square Enix, the game Outriders did not break even after the start quarter of sales."

IT's unknown wherefore the shooter hasn't made a profit yet, if true. President of The great unwashe John Fly's management board Sebastian Wojciechowski suggested that it may atomic number 4 related to distribution costs or other publisher expenses. However, he also says he doesn't "want to speculate" and says the studio will check IT. He adds "Scorn this disappointing information, we believe that [People Can Flee] will receive the first royalties from the sales agreement of Outriders this year."

Outriders seemed to be doing quite well since it's waiver, reporting player numbers of concluded 3.5 million in its first month on sale. Many of these players may be attributed to the game organism available at launch on Xbox Biz Pass, just it's unknown how that might feature forced the game's performance financially.

Outriders is available now on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Unmatchable, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC. You can read up along our finding of fact on the gage complete here.