The average number of employees at the four largest studios in the local video game industry fell to 2,963 from 3.017 in 2014. The average number of employees of the four had gone up by more than 300 in 2014.
French-held Ubisoft, the largest video game development company in Romania, had 1,220 employees on average in 2015, 95 fewer than in 2014. The average number of employees stood at 1,315 in 2014, 229 higher than in 2013.
Gameloft Romania, the local subsidiary of Gameloft, is the second largest company in its industry by number of employees. It had 1,180 employees on average in 2015, 17 more than in 2014.
There were about 5,000 people working in the industry last year, according to the estimates of the largest companies in this business.
The local subsidiaries of Ubisoft, Electronic Arts Games, Gameloft and King posted 430 million lei (almost EUR100 million) revenue together last year, according to Finance Ministry data. Their revenue was 18% higher than in 2014, when it stood at RON376 million. Total net profit went up 20% to RON19.5 million.
Ubisoft posted more than RON146 million revenue and RON5.8 million net profit, both up 8% on 2014. Electronic Arts Games saw a 21% increase in revenue and profit to RON133 million and RON7.8 million in 2015.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)