Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin failed: Frontier shares fell by almost 20 percent

Frontier Development has published updated financial information due to low sales of the Real Time Strategy Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin.

Realms of Ruin was released on November 17 and promised an interesting gameplay in the RTS genre in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe from Games Workshop.

According to Steamdb, the number of simultaneous players Realms of Ruin in Steam reached 1,572. At the time of publication of the article on the Valve platform in Realms of Ruin, only 155 people played, and the user review rating in Steam – "mixed".

The company’s shares fell by almost 20% against the background of this news, in which Frontier admitted that Realms of Ruin sales were in the first week "below than expected". However, Frontier said that there would be "Develop and maintain" the game after the release, including premium DLC, and therefore "expects sales over time will grow".

The developer from Cambridge (Great Britain) turned out to be a difficult year, when a number of last games could not attract the attention of buyers. Last month, Frontier announced a revision of the organizational structure, including staff reduction.

Frontier is a veteran studio that created the Elite space simulator in 2014: Dangerous, Zoo Tycoon, Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution Games. In recent years, she released two F1 Manager games, as well as Realms of Ruin. In addition, Frontier published third -party games under its Frontier Foundry label, including Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, Deliver US Mars and Far: Chaning Tides.

Looking into the future, Frontier said that in the next financial year she hopes to be crazy due to income from existing games, revenues from the game -preparation and reduce operating expenses by 20% due to dismissal. Frontier claims that its capitalization remains good, and the balance of cash is 20.5 million. pounds. This amount does not include remuneration from Microsoft for including F1 Manager 2023 in the Game Pass in October.

The chairman of the board of directors David Wilton left his post, and Ilze Hauling took his place. Frontier head David Braben said this year was "troubled and difficult" For Frontier.