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Starbreeze Acquires Full Rights To The PayDay Franchise, Payday 3 Revealed

by Rainier on May 31, 2016 @ 1:37 a.m. PDT

Starbreeze announced its agreement with 505 Games to acquire the full rights to the PayDay franchise.

After the transaction Starbreeze will own the full rights to the Payday-franchise for any future developments or commercialization, including PayDay 2 and PayDay for mobile platforms. Starbreeze will retain full net revenue from PayDay 2 on the Steam platform starting retroactively from May 1st,2016. Revenue generated by the console game PayDay 2: Crimewave Edition will continue to be split between the companies as before, and 505 Games will continue to publish the title.

Furthermore, 505 Games will retain a 33% revenue share of Starbreeze's net revenues from future sales of PayDay 3 capped at 40 MUSD, and after Starbreeze has fully recouped its development and marketing costs.

It's Starbreeze assessment that the price of 30 MUSD will be matched by corresponding revenues on the Payday franchise until such time Payday 3 is released in the future. Given the strategic value for Starbreeze to control its hit franchise it is both in the short and long term a sound investment.

"PAYDAY is very close to my heart, and has laid the foundation for Starbreeze success in recent years. We're very excited to bring our heisters home to the safe house," said Bo Andersson Klint, Starbreeze CEO. "To start with, we believe in the continued success of PAYDAY 2 and will support it for at least another 18 months continuing expanding the game."

The 10,934,211 million new B shares (equivalent to $30 Million/249 MSEK) will, post transaction, represent 4.3% of shares and 1.4% of votes and will be issued under authority from the AGM. After the issue, the total number of B-shares in Starbreeze is 196 832 410 and the total number of shares in Starbreeze 254 298 338.

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