It’s been a while since I talked about Funcom, almost a month! It’s good to see that Funcom continues to stride through whatever low points life throws its way. Slashing 20% of the company’s workforce, dropping 68.5% of revenue, and a loss of subscribers due to recent MMO releases, is just a flesh wound. Not only has Funcom opened a subsidiary, SweetRobot, but said subsidiary has been working on a free to play MMO for two years!
Set to go into open beta later this month, and pictured above, is Pets Vs Monsters. PvM, not to be confused with the popular MMO term, is…I’ll let Funcom explain it to you, but after the break.
I know what you’re thinking. Funcom? Casual? For kids? I know what you’re asking: How “for kids” can it be? Try 8-12 range.
- There are no plans for a discussion board, currently.
- All messages are pre-constructed (even Fusionfall had free chat)
Pre-constructed messages and no discussion board? Don’t get much more kid friendly than that. I’ll let the idea of Funcom producing a kid-orientated free to play MMO sink into your head, because quite frankly it hasn’t yet sunk into mine. It is like watching Bob Saget do stand up comedy, and then play Danny Tanner on Full House. The merger of two such opposite worlds astounds and confuses the mind.
MMO Fallout 