I am asking about how much money does Anet have? Is it doing well? Any informations about Anet’s budget?
(It’s just a simple, human curiosity.
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We don’t know.
Anet are not a publicly traded company (you can’t buy shares in Anet) they’re a wholly owned subsidiary of NCSoft. Which means their financial information is not made publicly available.
The nearest we have are NCSoft’s quarterly reports which show how much money they got from Anet, but there’s a lot of information missing from that – for example it could drop because sales are down or because Anet were permitted to keep a higher proportion of the profits to put towards developing new content.
But what we do know is that they’re about to bring out a new expansion and are planning further Living Story releases after that, so they’re obviously confident the game and the company will keep going for a while at least.
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Glass Door isn’t a good place to go to get an idea of how well a company is doing. It’s a useful tool to use before accepting a job, to help you with due-diligence of vetting your potential employer and finding out what key questions to ask.
However, most people who love working at a company don’t bother posting at GD — just the malcontents, who might or might not have good reasons to be dismayed. Like any of us, posters tend to focus on on perceived issues more than on actual ones, on the personal rather than the systemic (or by turning personal into systemic without being able to see the bigger picture).
For the OP: the surest metric we have that the company is successful is that they have doubled down on their monetization of the game using the same strategy of Expac + Living World + Gem Shop + No-Subscription. A failing business couldn’t afford to do that.
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