Developer Individuals Can Fly has simply acquired one other blow of unhealthy information. After studying earlier this yr that the studio didn’t see a penny of revenue from Outriders throughout 2021, it’s now been revealed that Rockstar and 2K Video games guardian firm Take-Two has made clear its intent to desert publishing PCF’s follow-up sport, presently referred to as Mission Dagger.
In an announcement posted to its web site, Individuals Can Fly introduced that it “has acquired from Take-Two Interactive a letter of intent to terminate the event and publishing settlement via mutual understanding between the 2 events.” Referring to Mission Dagger, its subsequent action-adventure two years into growth, it goes on to explain a doubtlessly messy scenario the place the 2 events will now negotiate how Take-Two will recoup its funding. Nonetheless, PCF states that it will “strengthen” plans to self-publish.
PCF is a developer that’s labored with a broad vary of publishers. Its 2011 hit, Bulletstorm, first arrived by way of EA (then was republished in 2017 by Gearbox), whereas final yr’s Outriders was revealed by Sq. Enix. The corporate, with studios in Poland, the UK, US and Canada, additionally has one other sport presently in growth with Sq. Enix, and two additional self-published unannounced video games, plus two extra VR initiatives on high of that! Mission Dagger is being led by the New York-based arm of the developer, and PCF has made clear its intentions to now add that to its personal publishing plans.
That is attainable, because the assertion explains, as a result of Take-Two has “not declared the intention to train its choice to purchase out the mental property rights to the mission,” which is nice information for PCF, but in addition presumably demonstrates Take-Two’s potential insecurity within the sport.
We’ve reached out to each Take-Two and Individuals Can Fly to ask for additional particulars, and can replace this text ought to both reply.
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PCF keep that their relationship with Take-Two remains to be good, and state that they’d be completely satisfied to publish with them once more. “I assume we’ll half on good phrases,” says PCF’s CEO, Sebastian Wojciechowski. “I don’t see the reason why we couldn’t work with Take-Two on another mission sooner or later.” He additionally affirms his confidence in Mission Dagger, which he says is “nonetheless in pre-production,” with the crew “specializing in closing fight and sport loops and migrate [sic] from UE4 to UE5.”
The assertion finally ends up offering estimated financials for the primary half of 2022, with income at PLN 90.6 million ($18.3 million) and internet revenue at PLN 25.5 million ($5.2 million).
