Funcom recently launched The Secret World, and if you hadn’t heard: It didn’t go so well. Launch numbers have been pretty unimpressive, and came on the heels of CEO Trond Arne resigning his role and Funcom’s shares taking a nosedive. Funcom’s second quarter finances won’t be released until the 28th of this month, but we can expect that the news won’t be good. According to recent reports, The Secret World failed to even break the “Conan-like” scenario that Funcom had predicted for launch, which some of you may remember as 280,000 subscribers.
Funcom has stated to Massively.com that they have recently laid off a number of staff, stressing that the layoffs are temporary (their emphasis), with the following statement:
“As we announced in the stock notice that went out on August 10th, Funcom is in the process of reducing operational costs and this process includes temporary layoffs as well as other initiatives. As we are currently in the middle of this process we can not provide any further comment at the present time. Rest assured however that we have long-term plans for the company and that we remain fully committed to all of our games. We aim to provide more information soon.”
As I always point out, layoffs after a game’s launch are nothing new and happen with virtually every game as development ends and temporary workers are relieved of duty. What is important is that we should keep watch of The Secret World’s content updates.
More on The Secret World as it appears.
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