Funcom keeps slipping. The company responsible for the MMO Age of Conan has reported a 23.3 million dollar fourth quarter loss. The CFO that delivered the bad news, Olav Sadnes, has since resigned.
It’s unclear if Funcom will take any extra measures to trim or bolster Age of Conan in the wake of the financial news. As Gamasutra mentions, Funcom recently closed 31 of its original 48 servers -- a mammoth slash for an MMO that reported big user numbers in its fledgling months. Funcom is now tasked with getting people back into their game without having to spend loads of cash.
Perhaps more intriguing is what may happen to the Xbox 360 port of Age of Conan. Will work continue on the already substantially delayed game? We asked Funcom for comment and have yet to receive a response.
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5:20 PM on 02.23.2009
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Yeah I don't really have any pity for another MMO that tried to take WoW head-on failing. We need more games that AREN'T WoW, not more games trying to take away it's userbase.
@Wedge
Every MMO is trying to take WoW head-on. What kind of MMO developer wouldn't want subscribers? Not sure what you mean with "another WoW", because AoC was very different from other MMO's, in both style and gameplay.
A) Relatively medieval fantasy like
and
B) Has boring click-a-click macro DPS skill timer blah blah gameplay (even with stupid combo crap)
Then it is just like WoW, or Everquest or all of those games that while they may be different to people interested in the nuances of that crappy genre, are all the same to me. I want MMO shooters and sports games and fighters and all sorts of other genres having people experiment with new ways of trying to combine actual gameplay with an MMO format. I want to see every normal MMO fail so people will hopefully try something new again...
Funcom obviously didnt recognize the change, decided they could rush out a buggy mess again and hope it'd turn profitable in 3 years. In the meantime warhammer came out, was very polished, and tore the heart out of AoC and ate it.
You speak the truth, I honestly couldn't care less about MMO's, I do, however, care about TLJ 3.
I mean if one day somehow they get the game back up i may go back but its Funcoms fault. The promised a lot of things for launch and they didnt deliver. Now im waiting on Aion The Tower of Eternity to hit US shelves
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