Starbreeze AB (publ) (STAR_B) Q3 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you all for listening in. And my name is Matsu and I'm the acting CEO and CFO for the company. Let me run through some slides and then there will be time for some questions after the presentation. And you can also send in questions during the presentation, of course, and we will try to answer as many as we can after the presentation. So let's get into it. Third quarter key takeaways. We have had a quite intense quarter with Operation MedicBag related to Payday 3. Several updates and more content released with great results. After our big release now in October with VoIP and Server Browser, among other things, we're actually approaching the end of Operation MedicBag, but we have more content coming out now in November, December as well, of course. So I think when you look on the updates we've done both before the quarter and during the quarter, we see sentiment levels now that we haven't seen on Payday 3 before, only on Payday 2. So it's fantastic to see recent reviews around 80% positive. Our fans are really appreciating what we're doing at the moment. Feels good. We have also focused on further leveraging our IP payday and identified several good opportunities, both on how to expand the franchise into new areas of entertainment, but also taking existing games to more platforms. And to give you an idea, I mean, the strength in the IP continues to impress me more and more for every time I talk to a potential partner. I think the opportunities in Payday are fantastic and we see really good progress on that work. And we are now in the position also to actually have the opportunity to spend more time and focus more on actually the franchise expansion going forward. You will hear more about that from our marketing department, of course, going forward. Our next game,...