Wolcen won't be supported anymore

[Llama8]

@Cyrus1

Not sure how Tencent deal works here. Gonna guess here either they take the cost of employees for entire project (3? Years) that they funded + negotiated fee OR they take all the money and just pay the staff the wage.

That’s a very bizarre way of thinking it works. Tencent acquired a relatively small stake (<25% is all we’ve been told), they wouldn’t be funding the entire project, nor would they be taking any of the money. It depends on the details of the purchase, but I’d expect that they handed over some cash (subject to valuation of EHG & expected performance) with the expectation that dividends would be paid in the future.

@Cyrus1

I will assume it’s it’s the second scenario

It won’t be.

@Cyrus1

This assumption assumes all employees get paid the same because they all do all the responsibilities and rotate depending on current needs.

Is also not even slightly the case. Do you think the coders get rotated into the art roles & vice versa (in before someone says that that would explain some of the bugs/etc)?

@Cyrus1

Now from google, regardless of what I found: environmental artist, game artist, digital designer, combat designer, sound engineer, coder, programmer the pay ranged from 55-65k. So I am gonna assume it’s 60K for each employe. 100 employees, for a total of 6 million.

A lot of the staff are not in the US (that’s the bit of the map that you have to scroll a really long way to get to) & US salaries are relatively high (the company I work for as payroll accountant have devs in the US, UK & Romania, can you guess the pay differential?).

@DJSamhein

or even most of it.

Or any of it. What’s the point in putting a bunch of cash in to then take a load out?

[Amonthar]

The problem with Wolcen was that the skill tree had a lot of bugs. Instead of fixing bugs, they decided to nerf the two best builds because reasons. They cared more about balance when half the builds didn’t even work properly than fixing their skill tree. All my friends stopped playing at this point.

One of the best looking ARPGs and they just went about doing stuff wrong.