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Funcom laid off 50%-60% of their employees today
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Lactose_Intolerant
Member
I'm not really shocked, unless you sell gang busters and can retain subs, you probably are going to have too many customer service people and devs working on your games.
BattleMonkey
Member
So Secret World f2p soon?
DidntKnowJack
Member
Read thread title as "Funcoland laid off..."
Always sucks when this happens. Effing economy.
Always sucks when this happens. Effing economy.
not_so_special
Banned
Have some of my pupils there,im sorry for them ;(
exactly
From what I've played (which is admittedly not much), Secret World seemed like a really cool game with quite a nice setting. Sadly, it also made the impressions to be more of a single-player game that somehow ended up being an MMO. It's kinda hard to convince me to pay a monthly fee for it.
... But in this particular case I'm not sure if F2P would be a solution either. The problem seems to be in the games' roots.
... But in this particular case I'm not sure if F2P would be a solution either. The problem seems to be in the games' roots.
BattleMonkey
Member
It feels like a single player game with quest design that fits it. As a MMO it just doesn't feel right really. It is probably the best MMO when it comes to quest desgin, some really fun ideas and unique quest types, but it never feels like I'm playing a MMO or want to be.
Varys?
Never played the beta of Secret World but I am very interested. I just can't commit to paying another monthly subscription.
Hope these guys and gals land on their feet.
Cjdamon042
Member
Sadly this isn't surprising. From what I played of The Secret World's beta it seemed like a fun game, but probably more fun to play as a single player experience and not as an MMO. Which I'm guessing is the problem as people might find it difficult to pay a subscription for a game like that. But I can't say for sure as I only played the beta for a little while.
Honestly I think they need to go back to non-MMO titles. While I would love a sequel to Dreamfall (dat ending...), I don't think that would do them many favours either. Then again, maybe it would. I'm not really sure how many people would want one.
Honestly I think they need to go back to non-MMO titles. While I would love a sequel to Dreamfall (dat ending...), I don't think that would do them many favours either. Then again, maybe it would. I'm not really sure how many people would want one.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
gimme mye ending before you leave the building Tornquist!!!
Hari Seldon
Member
They really need to stop making MMOs. If you are not going to massively innovate, then wait for someone to do it and then copy the innovation before it gets stale. This MMO style we are on is still EQ1 shit. No amount of slick quest design is going to fix the fatigue with this.
Amazing setting, great concept, awful controls/combat.
ComputerMKII
Banned
I came in to post this.
Ice cold
That sucks if true
Loving TSW.
Screw you.
TSW is very different from other MMO's. Seems like too different for people.
Loving TSW.
Screw you.
TSW is very different from other MMO's. Seems like too different for people.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Terrible industry news continues in 2012...
MrNyarlathotep
Banned
I haven't actually tried TSW, but everything I've seen looks a lot more innovative than something like, say, Rift
Not really... The clunky controls and poorly done animations are keeping this game down. Interesting story elements, but the game play is just not well done.
No idea what the controls and animations have to do with it being very different.
Granted you either hate or just roll with the combat and skill system, but TSw sticks out in so many other ways.
I think the real problem is that none of these MMOs are actually MMOs.
Do we know what Studio?
Montreal, Norway, Shanghai,...?
edit: well twitter already has it.
https://twitter.com/Rostvaag/status/237980973604679680
Hope they recover, that is really a shame.
Montreal, Norway, Shanghai,...?
edit: well twitter already has it.
https://twitter.com/Rostvaag/status/237980973604679680
Hope they recover, that is really a shame.
Or to return to The Longest Journey franchise and actually complete the trilogy.
Oh, no. It has to do with you saying:
derFeef said:
In response to:
Hari Seldon said:
The reason why I could not get into this game is the bad controls and awful animations, which is really to say the overall quality of the game is simply just not on par with other MMO's.
The story is really interesting in certain parts, and some of the encounters are really great, but I just could not get around the fundamental mechanics of the game being so flawed all while being so deep and well done in certain areas. Such as I really liked the ability wheel and crafting, but could not stand the controls or watching this cutscene play out that was interesting in concept but so poorly executed, that it felt jarring.
I don't give a @#$% about what you do, Funcom, I don't even care if you have no money, I don't know how you're going to do it, but I want you to hire again your lost employees and exploit them, torture them, and put them to work on Dreamfall Chapters, burn them down if necessary, but I want my Dreamfall Chapters and I want them for 2013.
RIP to bad business.