ED biz tidbits

Since most of us (myself included) are usually just spouting our own baseless opinions on whatever matter's at hand, I really like it when we get some specific info on how ED/DCS is actually doing.

The below was posted just today by Nick in the now 5 month old Wall of Text / Early Access thread, so thought it was worth surfacing in a new post.

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NSSGrey4 points·5 hours ago

Dear Sir, thank you for your comment. I fully understand your reasoning but let me give you a few facts which hopefully will help you and others in the community to have some hope for the genre and more particularly for DCS.

1. Our monthly user base has grown since last year by 80% to 203’000 monthly users (data from google analytics which is pessimistic).
2. We delivered 480’000 paid products in the last 12 months
3. Our user base is growing and diversifying worldwide with China now representing 11% of products purchased
4. We are profitable and have been for the past 25 years every year except two
5. We reinvest 100% of our profits into the future.
6. We have an amazing 137 person team operating out of 5 main offices
7. We started in 1991 with one dream: to bring a realistic sense of flight and air combat to the PC. This hasn’t changed.
8. We are not perfect and we know it but we are trying hard to do our very best
9. We don’t mind vocal communities, on the contrary. (Vulgarity isn’t elegant or helpful but sometimes understandable).
10. We are always grateful for the chances life has given us and we are thankful to have so many friends and supporters in the community.

Thank you all again for your passion and support.

Respectfully yours

Nick (Founder)