Age of Conan

Funcom's Offically spoke out about the Rumour stating to TTH: www.tentonhammer.com/node/49966
 

"We did have some staffing cuts at Funcom this week as well as new positions opening in the organization as part of our ongoing cost based efficiency and performance initiatives that are vital to any business."

and that is all we are going to get, couple with previous facts already stated.

People come and go all the time in this line of business - Pretty much a lot of people and comments I've read in the community just see it as business as usual. Some in, some out, solidifying mainly out of Oslo as always been the case. The cuts are not nearly as bad as the ones at NCsoft not long ago prior to TR closing.

Famine also writes to keep the community informed:

Famine writes:

"As some of you probably already have read on various websites over the weekend, Funcom has cut some of its staff. The reasons being cost efficiency and reorganization of certain teams and departments. This also includes hiring new people for opening positions in the organization. Such changes due to efficiency and performance initiatives are vital to any business and is to make sure that Funcom as a business stays on course. So this process was to re-adjust our cost base in some areas while increasing investment in others. This is a natural part of adjusting to the changing markets.

We are dedicated to improve Age of Conan further, as the past updates have shown and as well as the plans for the future updates clearly indicate. So we will stick to the plans we announced the past weeks and keep on working to constantly improve the game."

Personally, I think that anyone who can't see this for logically what it is and puts out that FC is closing soon or being sold is justing doing it for questionable motives all related to post history. Last week I fired 18 people and this week hired 11 new people in different area's. Happens all the time in business, we didn't need those people in that particular area anymore as we were already staffed up too much.

i smiled when i read this

funCON once again fails they have failed to make age of CONan a fun game no one likes it and last time i checked most of the servers are dead bar 1 or 2 people who cyber

this is why CONan should have been a skill based swg pre-cu like game you would have had 250k of my friends playing it

oh snap funCON failed

Originally posted by iwantmyswg

i smiled when i read this

funCON once again fails they have failed to make age of CONan a fun game no one likes it and last time i checked most of the servers are dead bar 1 or 2 people who cyber

this is why CONan should have been a skill based swg pre-cu like game you would have had 250k of my friends playing it

oh snap funCON failed

you're funny

Shame really not nice for people to lose their jobs. Happening with the economic world state atm though. Although I wouldnt put that 100% down to why Funcom employees are being removed.

They did it a month before Christmas, that's super classy.

Guess they didn't want to spend any of that big surplus of cash they are supposedly sitting on to float those folks to the new year.

The math makes sense, 80% of the player base left so 70% of the CS/QA isn't needed anymore.

Originally posted by Unfinished

They did it a month before Christmas, that's super classy.

Guess they didn't want to spend any of that big surplus of cash they are supposedly sitting on to float those folks to the new year.

The math makes sense, 80% of the player base left so 70% of the CS/QA isn't needed anymore.

It's business, nothing mean about it. If you got support staffed up for 500k customers and you only got 100k paying subscribers (these are guesstimates of course), you need to cut down on support manpower.

You think they will fire Oslo staff next? I mean it's not only US sub numbers that have been going down. Europe has also taken a huge hit. Maybe they have already fired people from FC headquarters, we just don't know about it?

Originally posted by silmaril

Originally posted by Unfinished

They did it a month before Christmas, that's super classy.

Guess they didn't want to spend any of that big surplus of cash they are supposedly sitting on to float those folks to the new year.

The math makes sense, 80% of the player base left so 70% of the CS/QA isn't needed anymore.

 

It's business, nothing mean about it. If you got support staffed up for 500k customers and you only got 100k paying subscribers (these are guesstimates of course), you need to cut down on support manpower.

And don't worry, the rest of the team isn't far behind.  They probably axed the employees in the USA to avoid having to pay them for  the 4 day weekend coming up for thanksgiving.  The people who are left are probably needed to close down the office.

We will know a lot more after this meeting in December.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Personally, I think that anyone who can't see this for logically what it is and puts out that FC is closing soon or being sold is justing doing it for questionable motives all related to post history. Last week I fired 18 people and this week hired 11 new people in different area's. Happens all the time in business, we didn't need those people in that particular area anymore as we were already staffed up too much.

Sure people get fired and hired in business all the time. However this is no random personel change, FC fired 70% of staff! Get it? 70%. That is a big deal no matter how much you like to spin it. Companies don't fire 70% of staff when everything is going well. Moves like this makes me think FC has given up in the US and are either going to close up shop, or run the the US office with a skeleton crew of 2-3 people.

I believe something really bad is happening behind the scenes and FC is desperately trying to survive the storm. More layoffs will happen, trust me.