Is Gameloft self sustaining?

[Tilarta]

Disney just had their annual shareholders meeting and unfortunately, the financial future of the company is not sufficient.
Which has me concerned because the last time Disney had monetary issues, they shut down their gaming division to recoup costs.

Given that we just got Dreamlight Valley, if Disney decides to shut down their gaming department for the second time, does this mean development of the game will cease and the online servers will be inactivated?
That's exactly what happened last time, Avalanche Studios was preparing a new playset for Disney Infinity and a major game update, all of which was cancelled when Disney shut down the game.

So my question is, can Gameloft continue to fund the development of their Disney titles independently without financial support from Disney?
Specifically, I want them to keep maintaining Dreamlight Valley and Magic Kingdoms.

[Myth Alric]

From my understanding Gameloft pays money to Disney for licensing, and Disney isn't involved at all in the game development. So there isn't anything for Disney to shut down to save costs.

In the case of Disney Infinity, Disney's game studio was actively involved in producing the game.

[kitsuneblue]

Originally posted by Tilarta:

Disney just had their annual shareholders meeting and unfortunately, the financial future of the company is not sufficient.
Which has me concerned because the last time Disney had monetary issues, they shut down their gaming division to recoup costs.

Given that we just got Dreamlight Valley, if Disney decides to shut down their gaming department for the second time, does this mean development of the game will cease and the online servers will be inactivated?
That's exactly what happened last time, Avalanche Studios was preparing a new playset for Disney Infinity and a major game update, all of which was cancelled when Disney shut down the game.

So my question is, can Gameloft continue to fund the development of their Disney titles independently without financial support from Disney?
Specifically, I want them to keep maintaining Dreamlight Valley and Magic Kingdoms.

this is why disney has nothing to do with development, they had a game studio or two at different points and they failed so now they don't make games they sell the rights to make games, They don't give financial support to gameloft they basically rent out the rights to use their characters to studios. if anything if they tried to pull the license now that would cost them money as well as any fees for breaking a contract with gameloft.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Gameloft is owned by Vivendi. It is possible that Gameloft would discontinue DDV if it is not financially viable. Given their Steam Chart activity, it is quite likely they could pull the plug if they don't see a big jump in sales when they finally offer up the new DLC.

Apparently, their hope to see a surge in new buyers taking advantage of the sale/founder gifts has not really panned out. The numbers keep trending down. 1768 average for the last 30 days. That should have gone way up if potential buyers saw the value in the sale/founder gifts. It also indicates that there are not many new players...all of us are just sitting around waiting for 12/5.

[kitsuneblue]

Originally posted by EntityofDesire:

Actually apparently the majority of players are on console and the majority of PC gamers are on gamepass who play this if you go the discord and reddit. I mean full stop I played the game on gamepass and bought it in the windows store because the discount was bigger (also the MS store is built into windows so its not like I need to launch a new client for it)

Also gamepass pays a ton for the games on it to developers and the fact that its STILL on gamepass means it has a constant player base through it since microsoft sustains successful games on their gamepass (ie if it was doing bad microsoft would have dumped it by now)

this makes sense to me, it is hard to get a good read on the numbers when spread out so much on different platforms. My guess is disney raised the price to keep the license when the year was up cause of how bad they are doing so gameloft had to change the plan. That is what i think probably happened with f2p. the fact they announce the change after a year has me thinking disney's contracts are part of it