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And this is something that we are doing even today because it's very hard to hire people. And after that, we needed to expand team costs.

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And then we needed to patch the game fast just to fix some stuff that people find in a very, very short period of time. And then we finished with the celebrating, it lasted only two hours. And it was something that lots of people don't experience in their lifetime. And our master server was crashing, then we are doing programming and DPM just to handle all the possible traffic. And by midnight we had insane player traffic, it was more than 70,000 users at the same time connected and playing the game. But then our servers started struggling with all of the players. Every refresh, it was 5000 more, it was insane.

And we had just released, pressed the button, and we danced with champagne, and said, 'if this succeeds, great, if it doesn't succeed, you gave your best, nothing bad can happen in the end.' And after two hours, we just press refresh and it was already 50,000. So we'd done some predictions for how everything will go at the launch of SCUM. But we're preoccupied just trying to make a good game and present it in the best way possible. That's pretty good, when we talk with other developers how many players they get on even bigger titles that you see on top-selling charts, and they didn't get 150,000 or 200,000. It was a million people in the game originally. It was great that success happened almost overnight because we have some kind of idea of how many people played the game on the day of the release. And after that, you will see how big publishers copy everything. Because if you present your idea in the proper way, you have the money to complete that project in the end. And early access is a great tool to achieve that. And when you don't have anything to lose, then some great ideas happen. These projects started in garages in some way. And you will see that won't happen with Ark, PUBG, Minecraft. And only indies are currently experimenting. So if they try to experiment with some ideas, they may fail.

I will explain why you will see in the industry that every big publisher, big developer, are always going to do something that is working and proven, release Call of Duty 10, 11, 12, just only small changes because they are afraid production is very costly. And because of that, we really like early access. But this takes lots of people and lots of money to make something happen like that. The original idea was we needed money for development to make the best survival game ever. And they needed to cut corners in every possible way just to get something to start. In the end, it was 16, this is still a very small number.

And it took us around three years to finish some basic model, a game is ready to be released early access, and we started with six people. To everybody else, it was a crazy idea that only six people can make some kind of survival game, you need to start with something. Because when we started SCUM, it was only six guys, we wanted to make something new. How has that experience been for the company?Īndrej Levenski: Yeah, it was fantastic. When SCUM first launched on Steam it was a massive success. I'd like to hear a little bit about your experience at Gamepires and SCUM. For more on SCUM, Gamepires and everything else you could possibly want to know, keep reading Wccftech.

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Read our full interview with Andrej Levenski below, and if you're interested in a games industry job, perhaps reach out to Gamepires, they seem keen to hire programmers and make the game as good as it possibly can be.