Proven LiveOps services for long-running games
We take over live titles at any stage: post-launch transitions, operational consulting, infrastructure and tooling. Then we turn them into operations that are predictable, affordable and worth keeping alive.
Delivered by our team, at The LiveOps Guild and in prior studio roles.
TLG and founder experience across leading studios, publishers and live titles.
25 years
of extra runway added
Across nine engagements, at TLG and in prior studio roles
−95%
live bugs
Power Rangers: Legacy Wars
−$40k USD
monthly infra cost
DC Legends
30+ years
collective LiveOps experience
Across the founding team’s careers
What we do
Take the whole operation, diagnose a specific problem, cover the infrastructure, or give your team better tools. Or have us build the title itself, on our own or alongside your team. Most studios start with one and grow into others.
We operate your live game end-to-end.
Selected engagements: DC Legends (WB Games) · Power Rangers: Legacy Wars (nWay) · TownStar (Gala Games)
HellFire: The Summoning, taken over one year after release, at DeNA.
We diagnose what is slowing your LiveOps down.
Selected engagements: WWE Champions (Scopely) · Titanfall: Assault (NEXON) · Alia Bhatt: Star Life (Moonfrog Labs) · Rock of Ages 3 (ACE Team)
Across Crime City, Modern War and Kingdom Age, at GREE.
We keep your infrastructure and releases covered.
DC Legends, via an infrastructure-as-code migration, for WB Games.
We help your team ship content faster and safer.
LiveOps tooling built by our CEO at DeNA, on Star Wars: Galactic Defense.
We build new titles and live systems from scratch.
Selected engagements: Power Rangers: Morphin Legends (nWay) · Kalyug: Warriors of Magic (Moonfrog Labs) · Timenauts (DeNA)
We embed our team alongside yours.
Game handover process
From operational uncertainty to cost-controlled, repeatable LiveOps you can trust.
We audit the live build, the pipelines and the infrastructure to establish what you actually have and what it costs to run.
Knowledge transfer from your team to ours, documented as we go, so the game stops depending on people who are leaving.
We take the wheel on cadence, content and releases. Your team stops firefighting and gets its focus back.
Bugs down, releases predictable, infrastructure right-sized. The game becomes cheap and boring to run, in the best way.
With operations under control, we push the roadmap forward with new features and events that add years of runway.
How long it takes
One to four months
One month when the outgoing team is available and the documentation exists. Four when there is no handover to receive and we are reverse-engineering most of the title.
Case study
What those five stages look like on one title. Our team joined DC Legends (WB Games) 2 years post-launch, with the title running on a shrinking team and an expected runway of six months.
Portfolio
Nine live titles with published results, plus the IP our team has worked on across its careers. The rest of the record, including development and consulting work, is under the cards.
These results were delivered by our team, both at The LiveOps Guild and in their prior roles at the studios and publishers operating each title.
nWay · Mobile Real-Time Fighter
Taken over two years after release and held to a strict monthly cadence: a new Ranger, two skins and a full event schedule.
Gala Games · PC MMO
Taken over with minimal handover, then given the LiveOps it never had: events, leaderboards and rewards. Run for two years.
WB Games · Mobile RPG
Inherited with six months of expected runway. Raid Boss was designed and shipped after the original team had already gone.
DeNA · Mobile CCG
Seven new cards, an event and multiple sales every week, with content production cut from five days to one.
Gala Games · Web Strategy Builder
Refactored to be server-authoritative to stop cheating, which made the weekly reward process reliable for the first time.
DeNA · Mobile PVP Strategy
A new tank and multiple sales every week, delivered by a team cut from fifteen people to eight.
DeNA · Mobile PVP Strategy
Two new Transformers, an event schedule and multiple sales a month, held to a fixed release rhythm.
Gala Games · Mobile RPG & 4X
Taken over with no documentation or handover. Engineering, data and art pipeline were reverse-engineered from the live build.
Gala Games · Mobile RPG
Taken over a year after release, then run to a ten-week season: a new character, an event schedule and multiple sales each time.
Who you work with
30+ years of collective LiveOps experience. Based in Chile and San Francisco, working in English on hours that overlap the North American business day.
Chief Executive Officer
Game designer and producer for over a decade before founding the Guild. LiveOps tooling at DeNA, design lead at Moonfrog Labs, Studio Director at Gala.
Chief Technology Officer
Nearly two decades in backend engineering, the last ten on live games. Lead backend at DeNA, DC Legends at Giant Monkey Robot, LiveOps architecture at Gala.
Head of DevOps
Running games DevOps since 2012. Director of DevOps at GREE for five years, then NEXON M, WB Games San Francisco and Gala.
We do not keep a bench you pay for between projects. The Guild draws on a network of around 150 specialists across backend and frontend engineering, DevOps, analytics, product management, game design, production and art, and assembles the team a title actually needs. A complete handover usually runs 10 to 25 people, sized to the work in front of it rather than to a fixed contract.
Two ways to engage
Monthly fee
A flat monthly rate for the team and scope you agree. Predictable, and the simplest place to start.
Monthly fee plus revenue share
The same arrangement, plus a share of what the title earns. Depending on the title that can bring the monthly fee down, and it puts our upside on the same outcome as yours.
Let's talk
We can help you find the fastest path to more runway. A discovery call costs you half an hour and tells you whether the title is worth keeping.
FAQ
LiveOps is everything that keeps a game running after launch: content releases, events, economy and balance changes, infrastructure, releases, analytics and player support. For a long-running title it is most of the work, and it is the part that decides how many more years the game has left.
