Funcom has laid off employees over at its Beijing studio. The studio mainly focused on developing art and animation for The Secret World. The layoffs are not a big surprise per say, as we’ve known about Funcom’s plans to shut down various studios…
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Funcom’s Beijing Studio Shuts Down
Tagged with: Age of Conan, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, Anarchy Online, Beijing, Funcom, Funcom employees, Funcom HQ, Funcom industry, Funcom staff layoffs, Funcom's Beijing, Gamespot, Layoff, Montreal, North Carolina, Raleigh North Carolina, Secret World, The Secret World
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Posted in Business / Industry, Games, News
Funcom’s Beijing Studio Shuts Down
Funcom has laid off employees over at its Beijing studio. The studio mainly focused on developing art and animation for The Secret World. The layoffs are not a big surprise per say, as we’ve known about Funcom’s plans to shut down various studios…
Tagged with: Age of Conan, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, Anarchy Online, Beijing, Funcom, Funcom employees, Funcom HQ, Funcom industry, Funcom staff layoffs, Funcom's Beijing, Gamespot, Layoff, Montreal, North Carolina, Raleigh North Carolina, Secret World, The Secret World
Posted in Business / Industry, Games, News
Posted in Business / Industry, Games, News
The Secret World Removes Subscriptions
The Secret World no longer requires subscriptions. Joystiq has reported that The Secret World now sports a buy-to-play model. The game will now come with three membership tiers: free, member, and grand master. Once you’ve bought the game you don’t need to worry…
Funcom to Focus on Smaller Games After The Secret World Flop
After the flop regarding The Secret World, Funcom will only develop “smaller” games that will cost less money. It’s estimated that the MMO only sold about 200 000 copies. The flop most likely caused the company to fire a lot of…
Tagged with: dlc, Funcom, game design, games, gaming, guild wars, Guild Wars 2, launch, Layoff, Massively multiplayer online game, MMO, Secret World, The Secret World, Video Games, World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
Posted in Announcements, Games, News
Posted in Announcements, Games, News
The Secret World DLC Delayed
Following the layoffs over at Funcom, The Secret World‘s DLC will be delayed. The second part of the monthly updates, titled “Issue 2: Digging Deeper,” was originally planned to be released on August 28th. However, due to half of the…
Funcom Lays Off Staff
Funcom has decided to lay off half its staff. The layoff was throughout the studios various offices, affected studios are Montreal, Oslo, Durham and Beijing. However, it would seem that some layoffs are only temporary, whilst other departments suffers more.…
Tagged with: Beijing, Customer service, Funcom, Funcom staff layoffs, Layoff, Massively multiplayer online game, Montreal, Oslo, Secret World
Posted in Business / Industry, Games, News
Posted in Business / Industry, Games, News
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