As part of Funcom's ongoing restructuring, the company's Beijing studio will be closing. The studio was primarily responsible for art and animation for The Secret World. According to Gamasutra, these assets will now be produced by the Funcom studio located in North Carolina, USA.

Source: Gamasutra

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Originally posted by jimdandy26
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This needs to be defended? They closed a studio and moved production. If it was financial I am sure they would have closed the studio in the US and kep the one in China open. Then again closing a studio in china and laying people off there might be a hell of a lot cheaper. Still do not see where the defense is needed. 

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Sounds like a rather small studio. Things like this are expected when a company is restructuring. Time will tell if this affects FC's games in a negative way.

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Although the specific details have not yet been revealed

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That was on the 11th and the specific details are still a myth.

They wanna focus on smaller onlinegames while size matters.

If you ask me, they made a lot of bullshit since they decide to be a corporation some years ago, 5 or so.

Now they gonna rewert their bullshit in a corporate way and call it "restructuring".

They have thoughts like "we release your newsletters for every game on the same day in the same hour because our fans would read all day on the other Funcoms games to get informations about their own game blablabla" .. /facepalm

The illness comes from above.

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Originally posted by jimdandy26
I can start linking threads from their forums and even a couple here if you want. I play the game, and even enjoy the game but the writing has been on the wall for months that Funcom is in a dire financial situation and many will not accept, with many more actively defending the game and the company for the misteps they have taken.

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Please stop. The general response thus far has been sad for the company. Dont turn this into an uncivil discussion about things that havnt happened yet.

Fanboy here and don't really see what needs to be defended.  Funcom is in dire financial straits but that's not really a big secret.

But how sad are these times (when you're an American) when it's cheaper to close a Chinese studio and keep the US one open,.

Originally posted by WingedNazgul

Fanboy here and don't really see what needs to be defended.  Funcom is in dire financial straits but that's not really a big secret.

 

But how sad are these times (when you're an American) when it's cheaper to close a Chinese studio and keep the US one open,.

Its ok they got it nailed internally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

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Originally posted by mmoski

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Originally posted by WingedNazgul Fanboy here and don't really see what needs to be defended.  Funcom is in dire financial straits but that's not really a big secret.   But how sad are these times (when you're an American) when it's cheaper to close a Chinese studio and keep the US one open,.

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Its ok they got it nailed internally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

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Originally posted by WingedNazgul

Fanboy here and don't really see what needs to be defended.  Funcom is in dire financial straits but that's not really a big secret.

 

But how sad are these times (when you're an American) when it's cheaper to close a Chinese studio and keep the US one open,.

Good actually. I think firing someone in the US or EU is a lot more expencive to fire a chinees worker. There are plenty of laws that makes you pay them a good sum of money. Even if % it the same in China. It could still be cheaper to close it because the chinees worker earns less. Beside the company in the US could take over the operations from China. I doubt it would work the other way. 

Originally posted by jimdandy26
I can start linking threads from their forums and even a couple here if you want. I play the game, and even enjoy the game but the writing has been on the wall for months that Funcom is in a dire financial situation and many will not accept, with many more actively defending the game and the company for the misteps they have taken.

No one here is saying FC is doing fine, though.

Originally posted by remyburke
While I never want to hear about layoffs, their animations team was by far the weakest link in the chain.

Could be because of a low animation budget. TSW's animations look like they were made in a hurry.

This sort of thing hurts, but hopefully it will work out in the long run.

Originally posted by jimdandy26
I can start linking threads from their forums and even a couple here if you want. I play the game, and even enjoy the game but the writing has been on the wall for months that Funcom is in a dire financial situation and many will not accept, with many more actively defending the game and the company for the misteps they have taken.

 

And instead "attacking" the game and crying doom is going to help... how?

Originally posted by muthax

Originally posted by jimdandy26
I can start linking threads from their forums and even a couple here if you want. I play the game, and even enjoy the game but the writing has been on the wall for months that Funcom is in a dire financial situation and many will not accept, with many more actively defending the game and the company for the misteps they have taken.

 

And instead "attacking" the game and crying doom is going to help... how?

I am neither attacking the game nor crying doom. I was actually being facetious more than anything. Look at this thread started just an hour ago http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=66249 where the fanboys are already starting in with "its a good thing" and "this is what they told us months ago". Which is super funny, because these were the same guys telling us months before that nothing like this will ever happen, Funcom is doing great, the game is profitable blah blah blah. Look at the players still asking for stuff, especially extremely expensive stuff, while Funcom is laying people off and closing up shop. Its amusing and sad.

There has been speculation in several circles for quite a while that either EA or NCsoft were going to purchase Funcom all out, Dreamworld alone should be worth a chunk, but considering just how far in debt they are with thier loans I'm guessing they shopped around and couldn't get what they think they are worth and as such are now trying to get even enough to make it work.