Originally posted by Assasinated

Unfinished, you are just rude as if you feel I am picking a fight. Well I am not. Look, it's just a few hours since I made the post above. I can still remember what is says, it says 4 analysts (not less) and I copied the text to you as a proof (you refer to this as 2-3  analysts). Also the text says very clearly that some of them indeed made FunCom part of their portefolio. Now if you gonna be angry and rude because I point out that you and the other experts consistently don't talk about the topic, then so be it. I'm not gonna join you in the fight you are trying to pick here. Why are you getting angry?

Bill, i did not get your point.

MMORPG, unless somebody else that have something usefull to say stops by, I suggest you just close this thread. I give up trying to get something usefull out of this.

If they made Funcom part of their portfolio they are poor investors.  Any long-term return on Funcom is a gamble based on a company that has never produced a successful MMO and had its revenue drop around 60% last quarter. 

The MMORPG model is built on a liberal supply of credit cards.  Due to the constriction in discretionary credit that is going to happen over the next year, that is going to affect EVERY mmo.  And MMO's that are underwater (meaning losing money) are the ones in the most vulnerable position. 

Many companies can get away with 100,000 subscriptions and be golden.  Perhaps Funcom can too if it fires 250 of its employees.  But that type of contraction will crush the stock value and because Funcom is public they wont do it.

Instead they are going to chase their tail with the world's most God awful idea for an MMO: "The Secret World".  It is probably the worst MMO idea out there and has about the same chance of success as "Imperator" did.  

So the course of events will go something like this:  They are going to continue to support AoC and they are going to develop "The Secret World".  The Secret World, due to funding issues, will be released early in late 2010 and due to no money for advertising (and a retarded concept) will fall flat on its face.  Funcom's only decent IP (AoC for sure, and Dreamfall and AO at nominal prices) will be bought up as Funcom goes under. 

If it wasn't real life it would actually be funny.  As it stands it is sad and any investor who thinks AoC is going to grow obviously never played it.  Successful MMOs all have a hardcore playerbase (not fanbois) and AoC has none.  There is nothing to do in the game other than flutter around with no purpose and no goals.  Sure Funcom can keep AoC open and develop it with its bankroll, but every dollar it spends now has diminishing returns and works towards Funcom's earlier demise.

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Originally posted by Mitara
I supplyed you with 2 reasons I have been given by current investors, only to see people like Shadowmage, curring my post down. I do understand, its very clear from the wording shadowmage is using, that he is on some kind of crusade against Funcom. I cant blame him for not liking Funcom, I dont like them much either. I can blame him for not being serious...

cry me a river. Instead of claiming to be the victim of a crusade, how about posting some links to back up the unfounded assertions you made in your post.

Here I will remind you
Funcom has new things up the sleeve as well. They recently hired a genious game designer (Rasmus Hahr), a bit of a scoop for Funcom, since he is really good.

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