'They're the world's biggest free-to-play publisher - it's like being a company that wants to do something in the app space and partnering with Google. 'Nexon already has the huge infrastructure, so we can use their servers, their hosting and their football field of awesome technology,' he said. Wedgwood said partnering with Nexon was the right thing for Splash Damage because the company has the infrastructure to support the game, but it also giving the studio the freedom to make the game it wants to make at its own pace. The studio also risked losing money if the game didn't make back the money required to fund the servers and on-going development support. 'We would have had to be quite careful, and that means it would have taken longer to get to the point where the game was in great shape and we were really happy with it.' And then in open beta, the studio may have been able to grow this number of tens of thousands. In beta, the studio would have been restricted to running servers that could only support a few thousands. Wedgwood told Polygon that had the studio continued working on its own, its closed alpha may have only been able to accommodate a few hundred people. I don't think wouldn't have had the potential to grow exponentially, but it would have taken a lot longer to do everything.' If you look at independent developers who try to do it, they have good games, but these games only find little markets, which is a shame. 'We would have just grown it organically. Wedgwood said the studio didn't think that anyone would want to publish it. The game was completely self-funded by the studio and was later renamed Dirty Bomb before recently switching back to Extraction.

Speaking to Polygon, Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood said that when the studio first start concepting the game in 2010, it wanted to make a spiritual successor to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory that it would give away for free. Independent studio Splash Damage, best known for its work on Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Brink and the forthcoming Batman: Arkham Origins' multiplayer mode, had plans to self-publish its free-to-play shooter, Extraction, before it signed up with Nexon America.

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