Treatment’s beleaguered Management spin-off, FBC: Firebreak, has nonetheless not reached the studio’s inner targets “regardless of improved participant and gross sales metrics after the replace”.
Treatment issued a revenue warning to buyers because it lowered projected working earnings “because of weak gross sales of FBC: Firebreak”, claiming the missed goal had “a considerable influence” on the studio’s funds and revising its forecast downwards. It now expects working revenue to be “unfavourable and beneath the earlier 12 months”.
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“FBC: Firebreak was launched on June seventeenth,” Treatment CEO, Tero Virtala, stated (thanks, InsiderGaming). “In its 2025 half-year monetary report, Treatment reported that FBC: Firebreak’s launch-phase client gross sales underperformed. After the launch, the corporate quickly developed the sport primarily based on participant suggestions and launched a number of updates.
“On September twenty ninth, Treatment launched the primary Main Replace titled Breakpoint for FBC: Firebreak, which introduced important modifications to the sport’s core expertise. Regardless of improved participant and gross sales metrics after the replace, gross sales haven’t reached Treatment’s inner targets.
“Treatment is recognising a non-cash impairment of capitalised improvement prices and allotted bought publishing and distribution rights associated to FBC: Firebreak. Whereas we steadiness future investments to the title, we proceed growing and bettering the sport in keeping with our up to date long-term gross sales forecast.”
Treatment first hinted it was “unhappy” with the gross sales of its live-service shooter Firebreak: FBC again in August as a part of the corporate’s half-year monetary report. The launch succeeded technically and had over 1,000,000 gamers in its first 10 days. Nevertheless, nearly all of gamers have been on Xbox Collection X/S and PS5, the place the sport was accessible day one on subscription providers. On Steam – meant as the first gross sales channel on PC – the launch “underperformed”.
