Surprised by the number of people who created the blockbusters Elden Ring and Armored Core 6

According to PC Gamer , with multiple games in development at the same time, including the large-scale Armored Core 6 project and the highly anticipated Elden Ring expansion. All of the work is currently being done well under the guidance of the famous director Hidetaka Miyazaki, it can be seen that FromSoftware has had to put a lot of effort into allocating its staff in the most reasonable way.

Developer FromSoftware is known for some of the world's top games, so there are many questions about how much manpower they have to spend to bring those blockbusters to fans. In a recent interview with the director and producer of Armored Core 6 , PC Gamer asked about the current scale and how FromSoftware allocates its personnel to projects.

FromSoftware's two big games Elden Ring and Armored Core 6

"We only have about 400 employees at FromSoftware, and about 300 of them are development staff. That development staff will be rotated between projects as needed, depending on the project's situation and development stages," said producer Yasunori Ogura.

Ogura has been at FromSoftware for quite some time, having been part of the marketing team for Shadow Tower: Abyss back in 2003, and has since handled PR and marketing for over 20 of the company's games. For Armored Core 6 , which is his first time taking on a production role, Ogura explained that the game now has a larger team behind it, at least compared to previous Armored Cores .

“At peak times, there would be 200 to 230 developers working on Armored Core 6 ,” Ogura revealed. “That’s similar to Elden Ring back in the day. At the peak of that project, there were a similar number of people working at the same time.”

FromSoftware veteran producer Yasunori Ogura

For comparison, Armored Core 5 , released in 2012, had only about 80 internal developers. So Armored Core 6 's 200+ people shows that the development team has grown. But what's shocking is that a hit game like Elden Ring was made with a similar number of people.

Ubisoft recently said it has around 2,000 developers working on the Assassin's Creed franchise and plans to increase that number to 2,800. Even smaller Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has surpassed FromSoftware, with 400 employees working on its new RPG ambitions.

As you can see, FromSoftware's development team remains unusually small compared to the games they create.

With Armored Core 6 just a month away from release, it seems that the majority of the developers who were involved during the project's busiest period have now moved on to Elden Ring 's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion or newer, undisclosed projects.

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