This statement was published by People Can Fly studio as part of the financial report for 2021. The developers indicated that Square Enix should pay royalties as soon as the sales of the game compensate the publisher for the costs of development, publication and marketing. Since this didn’t happen until December 31, the studio assumed that Outriders still hadn’t paid off by that time.
Recall that People Can Fly said last August that it does not receive royalties from Outriders sales. Now the authors of the game began to doubt that their project will ever be able to pay off.