Comment on Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 13 hours agoI mean, you could see it as an investment? You know, by motivating their workers to create a very good product that then sells very well later when they are out of early access? Like a theoretical normal company should do?
False@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They probably need to sell over 14 million copies at full price to break even with that bonus. The math is very bad for them. That’s not impossible, but it would make it one of the best selling games of all time
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Thanks for checking the math, that is indeed an ambitious goal to reach.
Subnautica 1 and Below Zero together sold over 18 million copies, so reaching over 14 million with only one installment is doable with the bonus of being well known now, but still very ambitious.
And just to admit: yeah I also think the CEO did an overly stupid thing with that amount of money as bonus. But he also uses ChatGPT as legal advisor, so him being stupid is something we already knew.