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
    585·
    2 days 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
      28·
      2 days 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.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        101·
        1 day ago

        They need some staff there to get the the tax benefits lol

        Ireland really positioned themselves well for this. Megacorps love it!

        We all pay for it though

        • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Doesn’t necessarily need to be development staff, though. They could have just as easily set it up as their HR office with just a couple employees.

    • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
      161·
      2 days 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
      72·
      2 days 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
    18·
    2 days 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.