Focus Home Interactive has published its annual results for 2019-2020, closed on March 30. If all the lights are green for the publisher on the finance side, the report announces very bad news, Giants Software has decided to self-publish.
Good news hides bad news. Focus Home Interactive, the main publisher of Farming Simulator, has just announced the acquisition of a development studio, its first, which is none other than Deck13, the German developers of "The Surge 2". We can only rejoice at this purchase by the French publisher. But this announcement is marred by the loss of the goose that lays the golden eggs: Farming Simulator. Giants Software indeed announced to Focus in early June its intention to self-publish for the next installment, allowing the developer to save some money. Focus will continue to be in charge of the distribution of the current version.
We already knew the studio's ambition to do everything alone. The heavy hurdle of publishing will therefore be crossed and we could only foresee it with the opening of an office in Chicago solely for administrative purposes. Let us recall however the important role that Focus has played in the development and commercial success of the franchise since Farming Simulator 2013 in particular, and its aggressive management of competition during the publication of Pure Farming 2018.