In gentle of Johann Pilestedt just lately stepping down because the CEO of Arrowhead Recreation Studios in favour of a task because the studio’s chief inventive officer, Pilestedt, together with new CEO Shams Jorjani, spoke about their plans for the studio going ahead in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
The duo spoke about not desirous to increase Arrowhead Recreation Studios too rapidly in gentle of its latest success with Helldivers 2. Pilstedt mentioned that he needs the studio to be like FromSoftware or Blizzard, in that the he needs the studio to work on video games that they wish to make, quite than being pressured to work on a venture because of circumstances.
“We satisfaction ourselves on being an unbiased studio,” mentioned Pilestedt within the interview. “We’ve to see what the longer term holds, however there’s nothing within the plans the place we wish to be acquired by anyone. I wish to see how excessive we are able to fly. And bringing Shams on board, we’ve a great potential to grasp that way forward for turning into the following FromSoftware or Blizzard.”
Jojani additionally speaks about not desirous to increase the studio to too large a dimension. As a substitute, he needs the studio to remain smaller and stay targeted on making co-op video games, and ultimately needs to show Arrowhead Recreation Studios right into a “flagship” studio.
“The aim of the studio is to make actually nice co-op video games,” mentioned Jojani. “We actually wish to flip Arrowhead right into a flagship studio, the place individuals who wish to make these kind-of video games say to themselves: ‘I wish to work at Arrowhead’. Once we had been rising up, we actually wished to work at Blizzard, it was one of many bucket listing locations to work at. I believe Arrowhead has the potential to be that.”
“However that doesn’t imply we’ve to be a 500-person firm,” he continued. “The truth is, a 500-person firm is kind of painful in quite a lot of methods. We’ll see progress, however progress as a way to an ends, not as an finish itself. We don’t have plans to go public. None of these shenanigans. Measured progress that enables us to make wonderful recreation and be a great place to work.”
“We don’t run the enterprise for financial acquire,” added Pilestedt. “The humbleness and the will to simply make nice video games is the one purpose we exist.”
Pilestedt introduced that he was stepping down because the CEO of the studio earlier as we speak, stating that this can enable him to focus extra on the inventive facet of creating video games. Jorjani took up the function as the brand new CEO of Arrowhead Recreation Studios after beforehand having spent 12 years at Paradox Interactive.
Helldivers 2 itself has been an immense success for Arrowhead Recreation Studios, having bought 12 million copies since launch. The sport, which got here out earlier this yr, is out there on PC and PS5.
