Positive, Stellar Blade is not to everybody’s tastes, however the complete workers acquired a money bonus alongside a PS5 Professional, which is fairly good actually.
Relying on who you ask, Stellar Blade is both a sport not even price acknowledging, crucial sport ever made, or simply fairly good, actually. The dialog round it has largely simply been annoying, particularly in a yr that is been so tough on the video games trade, so, how about some good information out of developer Shift Up! As noticed by VGC, a Shift Up consultant just lately spoke with South Korean outlet Naver, the place it was shared that all the roughly 300 workers on the studio had been gifted a PS5 Professional – that bloody costly console folks have already stopped speaking about – and that they’re going to even be getting a bonus of 5 million gained (which is about $3400).
In response to the consultant, the intention behind the bonuses was to encourage current expertise on the firm. Contemplating what number of layoffs occurred final yr (it is estimated to be greater than 14,000), to listen to that an organization truly desires to retain and even reward its workers is encouraging – let’s simply hope that the workers’s salaries are wholesome sufficient with out the bonuses too.
Preliminary gross sales of Stellar Blade had been humble in comparison with different massive Sony titles, estimated to be round a million, however for a brand new IP it is a wholesome begin, and with a PC launch coming this yr and an expectation from Shift Up that it will promote even higher there, I am positive the developer is not all that nervous. The one concern it might need is a lawsuit that was filed in opposition to it and Sony final September over the consumer of the sport’s identify, Stellar Blade, as a movie firm, Stellarblade, has alleged that using the identify is damaging enterprise and infringing on the trademark.
