Hello Game's income?

[Melchiah]

Ok so after all these years of free content and updates I can't help but wonder how exactly do they maintain their company?

I thought vidya were expensive to make and they could only afford to do it with the usual monetization crap. What's Hello Game's secret, and why can't other companies do the same?

[V I D A L]

I wonder the same. Hard to believe this one game keep selling well enough for 8 years to sustain the studio.

[NZ.Zero]

they keep porting it to new platforms and fund the improvements through the growing userbase as a results of that. Plus organic growth of the user base as the product improves.

That strategy only has a limited lifespan, as now theyve run out of platforms to port to so they must rely on further organic growth or DLCs (or both).

[Mr. Bufferlow]

This has been asked and answered before, so you can just search for the answer.

Long story short, they are very small and they did very well with NMS compared to the few mouths they have to feed. I vaguely remember they had something like four programmers at release. They grew but only have 40 employees now. Not sure how many are programmers, art/communications and support.

[Robmo]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

I wonder the same. Hard to believe this one game keep selling well enough for 8 years to sustain the studio.

i think it does, every big update its half off, the price hasnt gone down since "Next" or even before that.

I've bought it on Xbox, then Steam. They added it to other platforms, Game Pass.

Game's regular price has not moved for years, just half price sales. I feel like this shows it strong value

[WumboWise]

They made BANK with the initial release. Like, they actually made an crap load of money. And back then it was only a few employees. The game has only sold more over the years due to the goodwill from the community about the continued support of the game.

Even though the game launched in an abysmal state, the company truly believes in the game and continued to improve it over the years despite the bad press of it's initial release. The only conclusion I can draw, is that the people at HelloGames care about the game beyond it just being a product to make the company money.

It's a rare thing to see. And I'm glad that I am here for it.

[Foxglovez]

All you have to do it go to Hello Games, Great Britain and you can see how much moola they have in the bank. Privacy is a thing of the past. Evidently Sean and company didn't spend it all like drunken sailors. They are doing just fine. In the deep dive you can see they finally have a very nice office too, no longer in some back alley. Good on them. They deserve it.

[Jerricky Jebates]

easy everytime the announce some big patch and put the game on sale, another wave of players come and purchase the game. its simple

[Jerricky Jebates]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

All you have to do it go to Hello Games, Great Britain and you can see how much moola they have in the bank. Privacy is a thing of the past. Evidently Sean and company didn't spend it all like drunken sailors. They are doing just fine. In the deep dive you can see they finally have a very nice office too, no longer in some back alley. Good on them. They deserve it.

remind me never to move there, i dont want my date to see i have 5 dollars in the bank

[FriendCalledFive]

By having a small amount of devs and the game selling 10 million copies, it isn't rocket science.

[Chirico Cuvie]

Originally posted by WumboWise:

They made BANK with the initial release. Like, they actually made an crap load of money. And back then it was only a few employees. The game has only sold more over the years due to the goodwill from the community about the continued support of the game.

Even though the game launched in an abysmal state, the company truly believes in the game and continued to improve it over the years despite the bad press of it's initial release. The only conclusion I can draw, is that the people at HelloGames care about the game beyond it just being a product to make the company money.

It's a rare thing to see. And I'm glad that I am here for it.

I'm a PC player, yes back in the days I got a few crashes like cache is building up. But it was playable, just reload restore point once a while. Yes they overpromised, but the seemless travel from planet to planet was one of a kind and made up for it.

[Northstrider]

The initial launch sales were in the millions and Hello Games consists of 26 employees only. So they have AAA budged while maintaining a indie-level company structure. That's why they take so long to get anything done while also being able to keep going.