Lies Of P developers at Round8 and Neowiz have received bonuses as a reward for the Gabbo-like action game reaching 3 million cumulative sales across physical and digital on PC and consoles. Cheers, VGC.
As originally reported by South Korean tech site The Elec, staff have each received a previously arranged 10 million won bonus (about £5400) early, alongside two weeks’ paid holiday. This is on top of South Korea’s mandatory 15 days paid holiday for employees that have been with a company for more than a year.
Additionally, Round8 developers all got Nintendo Switch 2 consoles. We don’t usually report on sales figures at RPS, but reading this made me picture an exhausted combat designer grinning and sipping margaritas in the sun while playing Mario Kart for a fortnight, which I consider an image worth sharing.
To spoon Marmite in the margarita somewhat, this obviously also stood out since stories like this can feel like the exception in a landscape where the reward for working on a successful game can just as often be unemployment, as was the case with US-based Marvel Rivals dev back in February.
I’m sure there’s at least a few devs at Round8 that would have preferred the money over a console – giving out free Switch 2’s feels somewhat like a conscious attempt to generate goodfeels press and pizza-party loyalty. Still, Kudos to Neowiz for being chill cool nice good dudes about it: your reward is one goodfeels press. Lies Of P’s Overture DLC got a surprise release earlier this month at Medium Geoff’s Bad Shoe Jamboree, which turned out to be surprisingly difficult at that.
