One thing of note from the announcement:
With Turbulent as part of the CIG group of companies, our headcount will be over 1,100, making us one of the largest independent game developers in the world!
It’s pretty insane to think how large CIG has gotten over the years. It makes sense to bring in Turbulent now. If everyone remembers correctly, they had spun up a team to make PU content last year, and many of us didn’t really understand why that work would happen “out-of-house”.
I know that opinions have always been varied about the CIG website and Spectrum, but personally I think Turbulent has a lot of good talent. Whether they are just contracted out or owned by CIG doesn’t make a lot of difference, but at least now we know their talent will be dedicated to the project and not split working on other things.
Yeah I remember when we were amazed that they were getting to around 300 employees. It was hard to see how CIG was paying for everything back then, let alone 1100. If the average cost of employment is only $50,000 a head, that’s still like $55 mill a year. Lets hope funding continues to grow! 😀 buy more ships.