After a shakeup at the high of the enterprise and the monumental gross sales success of Helldivers 2 behind it, developer Arrowhead has stated it has a grand ambition to turn out to be the subsequent Blizzard or FromSoftware.
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, former Arrowhead CEO and now Chief Inventive Officer Johan Pilestedt and new CEO Shams Jorjani insisted they don’t have any plans to promote the firm, however do need to notice their ambition of taking it to the subsequent stage, with the builders behind the critically acclaimed and commercially profitable World of Warcraft and Darkish Souls video games a specific inspiration.
“We delight ourselves on being an impartial studio,” Pilestedt stated. “We have now to see what the future holds, however there’s nothing in the plans the place we wish to be acquired by anyone. I would like to see how excessive we are able to fly. And bringing Shams on board, we’ve a superb potential to notice that way forward for turning into the subsequent From Software program or Blizzard.”
Jorjani added: “The purpose of the studio is to make actually nice co-op video games. We actually need to flip Arrowhead right into a flagship studio, the place individuals who need to make these kind-of video games say to themselves: ‘I would like to work at Arrowhead.’ After we have been rising up, we actually needed to work at Blizzard, it was one in every of the bucket listing locations to work at. I believe Arrowhead has the potential to be that.”
Arrowhead will inevitably develop in dimension after Helldivers 2 bought 12 million copies in 12 weeks to turn out to be the fastest-selling PlayStation recreation of all time. Nevertheless, Pilestedt and Jorjani insisted Arrowhead needs to concentrate on “measured progress”, and has no plans to go public.
“We don’t run the enterprise for financial achieve,” Pilestedt stated. “The humbleness and the want to simply make nice video games is the solely cause we exist.”
In the meantime, Arrowhead has sald Helldivers 2’s success has introduced with it an enormous quantity of toxicity to take care of at the same time as it really works to add extra content material to the recreation’s reside service. To that finish, Arrowhead has indicated it plans to take extra time with patches so as to get them proper.
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