Who do we have to pay for more World War Wednesday?

[linen]

So the streamers are always complaining that it isn't them but the higher ups that won't allow them to play more WWW for our own amusement... Therefore, what is their hourly wage? I'm pretty sure we could easily cover the costs, I know myself and many others would be willing to pay. Hell, double it. What do you require? My first born child?

Give us more WWW please...

 

[Zaku]

So the streamers are always complaining that it isn't them but the higher ups that won't allow them to play more WWW for our own amusement... Therefore, what is their hourly wage? I'm pretty sure we could easily cover the costs, I know myself and many others would be willing to pay. Hell, double it. What do you require? My first born child?

Give us more WWW please...

Just be patient, the game is around the corner.

 

[linen]

Just be patient, the game is around the corner.

Are you playing in the beta? I bet you are. Something some smug ass beta player would say. ;D

 

[zyphial]

If they opened up a crowdfund, I bet they'd make several thousand bucks to support it. It'd collapse after release, but for a short time... they could probably raise a fortune. We gamers are suckers for microtransactions, and this is something that everybody wants. Everybody

 

[Joccend]

Everybody

So say we all.

 

[linen]

So say we all.

 

[Shireknight]

Could it be something to do with the release of Stellaris? Maybe after 9th May the HOI stream will move to 2 hour sessions like Stellaris is now.

 

[Gammler14]

Could it be something to do with the release of Stellaris? Maybe after 9th May the HOI stream will move to 2 hour sessions like Stellaris is now.

Let us hope

 

[Harada.Taro]

No one, they are not interesting as they are overwatching the game from the moon, playing a whole game in 30 min, clicking like mad anywhere and letting the AI conduct all battle... Not my style of game.

 

[Alex_brunius]

So the streamers are always complaining that it isn't them but the higher ups that won't allow them to play more WWW for our own amusement... Therefore, what is their hourly wage? I'm pretty sure we could easily cover the costs, I know myself and many others would be willing to pay. Hell, double it. What do you require? My first born child?

I don't think the issue is with the money, According to what I read Paradox made enough money during 2015 to basically double their current number of employees and still have a big profit to spare.

 

[MANkoto]

Is there a single person who doesn't want a longer WWW? I doubt that the extra hour of two people's time would hinder anything...

 

[leviathan172]

No one, they are not interesting as they are overwatching the game from the moon, playing a whole game in 30 min, clicking like mad anywhere and letting the AI conduct all battle... Not my style of game.

so why are you here?

 

[joeenochs]

I think, they want to keep us hungry for the game by not giving us an overdosis. And rightly so.

 

[Mannstien]

 

[Kazansky22]

I don't think the issue is with the money, According to what I read Paradox made enough money during 2015 to basically double their current number of employees and still have a big profit to spare.

Where did you see that? I'd love to give that article a read myself.

 

[Evan05]

I bet not long after Stellaris launches, we'll start to see 2-hour HOI4 streams and more HOI4 stuff in general.

 

[Mannstien]

Is there a reason to stream things like EU4 or CK2 that have already launched other than maybe to attract new customers? Otherwise I would think your next two major titles to launch would receive more stream time (I don't know how many times EU4 or CK2 stream so don't if its any more or less than HOI4 and I'm not really into Stellaris)

 

[gamedude]

Is there a reason to stream things like EU4 or CK2 that have already launched other than maybe to attract new customers? Otherwise I would think your next two major titles to launch would receive more stream time (I don't know how many times EU4 or CK2 stream so don't if its any more or less than HOI4 and I'm not really into Stellaris)

because PR.

 

[Vollheld]

Could it be something to do with the release of Stellaris? Maybe after 9th May the HOI stream will move to 2 hour sessions like Stellaris is now.

That would be awesome!

 

[Alex_brunius]

Where did you see that? I'd love to give that article a read myself.

Not an article. I read it in their Publicly available Swedish tax/company records.

Allabolag.se ( in Swedish ) states the financial result of Paradox Interactive from 2015:

Revenue: 606 million SEK
Employees: 190
Wages: -90 million SEK

Result/Profit: +189 million SEK
Profit Margin: +40%

I'm betting a fair share of that result was thanks to Cities Skylines which sold 2 million copies first year ( if each copy sold for 150 SEK average that's half their revenue alone! ).