When can we accept that a tiny studio in NZ cannot sustain this.

No American developers will move to NZ and lose half of their wealth. There is 5M people in NZ. Their dollar is worthless.
The best bet is move the operation to Australia, has 5x the population, more devs, the current devs are close to home. This seems like the logical solution to a problem that may only get larger.

Cool mentality, if there is a top Australia is not even on it with their developers. Also why not go to China and India, they have more people, and china has better developers.

I would imagine that tencent's dev team in China is already working on PoE2, modifying and tweaking it for their region. Especially considering that they don't have anything to work of for PoE at the moment. Who knows, maybe they'll just finish it up for GGG.

It's 2025, remote work is a thing

Not positive on New Zealand but I wouldn't be surprised. I BELIEVE not positive that in order to move into Australia and become a citizen you have to prove you are contributing to the country or to help preserve the natural side of the country.

I can't imagine that game development falls under this, which is likely why ita hard to find new team members for GGG.

I would, no lie move to NZ to work @ GGG
Canada is cold.

Location is irrelevant when you work at the speed of light.

You have a company in NZ
You pay salaries in NZ dollars
You charge customers in US dollars.

ummmm i think they good right where they are.

100 USD 177.24 NZD

They seemed to do pretty good making poe1 and a billion leagues for it. What's the problem.

When you also accept the game is no longer free to play, or the cash shop becomes more favorable to pay to win items. I'm just waiting for the bikini armor micro transactions.

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onsomeshit#6839 wrote:

No American developers will move to NZ and lose half of their wealth...

american? maybe ... guess what the USA isnt the only country in the world xD

NZ isnt on the Moon pal, its close to pretty densely populated areas that are much worse off than the NZ is

stop making excuses for LARGE gaming studio with hundreds of developers already owned and backed by the LARGEST entertainment conglomerate in the world that has basically unlimited finances at its disposal ...

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onsomeshit#6839 wrote:

No American developers will move to NZ and lose half of their wealth. There is 5M people in NZ. Their dollar is worthless.
The best bet is move the operation to Australia, has 5x the population, more devs, the current devs are close to home. This seems like the logical solution to a problem that may only get larger.

There is plenty of C++ developers around the world that would move to NZ (including me If I had not recently started my own company) americans are not the sole place where you will find develoeprs and in fact their wages are so high that few game companies use american developers.