Study: Mobile developers in the US spend over 21 million dollars on creating their own backend services
Developing internal tools for creating and operating mobile games is costly for companies, reports the technology platform Metaplay. This conclusion was reached after surveying 125 top managers from major American mobile studios.
Key findings from Metaplay's research:
- On average, 52 employees work on backend services in American mobile studios;
- 78.4% of top managers told Metaplay that their studios spent at least two years developing backend services. The average time is 36 months;
- 40.8% of top managers said their studios pay specialists working with internal tools less than $100,000 per year. However, considering responses from all respondents, the average salary of such employees is $138,864;
- Based on these data, Metaplay calculated that the decision to create their own backend services costs studios an average of $21,662,784;
- Nearly half of the top managers admitted that the decision to create backend services and allocate people to such teams slows down game development. One in five studios experienced a drop in revenue afterward.
