"I'm a fan of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series." Businessman Maksym Krippa told how he became the owner of the GSC Game World studio

Krippa reported this in an interview with Forbes Ukraine. He noted that he was introduced to Serhiy Grigorovich by the club’s founder and former owner of NAVI, Oleksandr Kokhanovsky.

«Later, I met his brother Yevgeny Grigorovich and his wife Maria. We began discussing the possibility of acquiring a share of the company. I am a fan of games, in particular the STALKER series, so it was very interesting for me,» said Maksym Krippa.

He recalled that Grigorovich suspended the development of STALKER 2 and closed the studio in 2011. But in 2018, he «revived» them together with his younger brother Yevgeny Grigorovich, who became the CEO of the restored GSC, and later the game director of STALKER 2.

«Until 2020, development was underway, which Serhiy financed at his own expense. But much more was needed. Then Serhiy and Zhenya began looking for investors. In 2020, we signed an agreement, and I became a co-owner of GSC Game World, from that moment on, the game development was financed entirely with my own funds», — said Krippa.

In 2020, he gained control over 40% of GSC through his companies, and in 2023 he bought out the remaining 42%. Another 18% belongs to Yevhen Grigorovich. Maxim Krippa did not disclose how much the acquisition of the studio cost him, citing the terms of the NDA. He noted that Sergey Grigorovich is not among the company’s shareholders. But under the terms of the agreement, Grigorovich Sr. will receive a certain percentage of the net profit from the sales of STALKER 2 and «some other projects of the company.»

«I have great respect for Sergey Grigorovich: he created the company and generally came up with the Stalker franchise. Without the trilogy he made, nothing would have happened. For me, he is a unique person, a legend. I am very glad that we were able to make a game that became a worthy continuation of the projects in which Sergey directly participated», — said Maksym Krippa.

According to him, the development of STALKER 2 cost «tens of millions of dollars», but the investment has already paid off, and the game is making a profit.

Recall that earlier, the founder of GSC Game World , Serhiy Grigorovich, showed a mock-up of a high-precision bomb with machine vision, which can be dropped from a drone, and the development of which was supported by programmers who worked on the games STALKER and «Cossacks».

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