“At the same time, we’re going to remain true to our disruptive free-to-play principle and continue to perfect it.
“As per our strategic and long term goals, we want to offer the most comprehensive product portfolio to our users which will cater to a wide variety of gamer preferences across the globe,” Christian Wawrzinek said. The in-house production will help the company develop new titles more quickly and efficiently, and it will also enable it to make more sophisticated core gaming projects for various platforms, Christian Wawrzinek said. The company has set up in-house production studios that focus on different genres. That’s a tougher application process than Harvard’s. Only about 2 percent of the people who apply for jobs get hired. In the development and marketing of our games, we pursue a data-based approach which allows for constant optimization and scalable operational processes,” said Kai WawrzinekĬhristian Wawrzinek, chief operating officer of Goodgame, said in an interview that the company’s emphasis on hiring the best talent is the key to its success. “The fact that our revenue and earnings are developing so positively demonstrate that our business model enables sustainable growth. During the past year, the number of registered players across Goodgame’s 11 games in the market rose from 170 million in 2013 to 245 million in 2014. But it has already some big successes like the mobile game Empire: Four Kingdoms, which is the world’s highest-grossing app by a German company. Goodgame is focused on launching new products and international expansion in 2015.
About a third of the employees are women, a higher ratio for women than most other game companies. The growth is happening fast enough for Goodgame Studios, which operates under the legal name Altigi GmbH, to anticipate adding 400 new employees in 2015, said Kai Wawrzinek. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) were €34.8 million, or $37.9 million, in 2014, compared to €13.4 million, or $14.6 million, in 2013. The revenues from 2014 were up 97 percent from €102.6 million, or $116.51 million in 2013.
0 kommentar(er)
