The holding company for Belgian-controlled games studio Larian, which runs its revenue through its Dublin arm, posted a €249m pre-tax profit last year as the major success of its Baldur’s Gate 3 title supercharged its sales.
  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    513·
    15 hours ago

    “Dublin firm behind Baldur’s Gate game” has to be the longest possible way they could have written “Larian Studios.”

    Author getting paid per word or what?

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      13 hours ago

      It’s an Irish site and so they probably want to market this as a success for Ireland and not necessarily that a Belgium-based studio is just using their Ireland branch office for special tax status.

      It’s not just a shell company though, as the article highlights they do have their own development staff there.

    • ahornsirupEnglish
      131·
      15 hours ago

      I suspect in this case the reason was to hide the name “Larian Studios” to get a click out of people who don’t know.

    • modifier@lemmy.caEnglish
      52·
      15 hours ago

      Its likely that Baldur’s Gate has more name recognition among readers of this paper than Larian does, so anchoring on that makes sense.

  • jonathan@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    15 hours ago

    There are tax efficiencies for them being here, but they actually have a sizeable staff presence too. Of all the tech companies in Dublin, they’re the ones I’d most like the opportunity to work with.