I ALMOST feel bad, that when funcom banned me from the aoc forums for complaining about the multitude of missing promised features, I actually said...."when you guys start losing your jobs over there, im gonna giggle like a schoolgirl"

almost

./giggle

Originally posted by jaxsundane

Originally posted by alakram

Originally posted by apocalance

and the fun continues.

 

Fun in people losing their jobs?. No its not fun. No matter how much you hate funcom, people getting fired is not fun, its real life mate, not a game.

 

I'm often on the side of compassion but this company is so inept I honestly sympathize with the guy who said the fun continues basically saying I don't know what the heck is going to happen with the people getting fired but equally they don't know the products they code so it makes me no difference programming can't be a hard industry to get into so you won't see me shedding tears for any FC staff but I will certainly hope they don't get back into the mmo industry.

And FC being a good company is certainly a point that can be argued they have yet to put out a single stable working game if that makes then good what does a company have to do to be considered bad?

I remember having the same feelings when i was young and ignorent, playing AO and hating the lag and its buggyness... but i played it for 5 years... go figure... I hated the crew for not fixing the game for us... But they tried.. atleast said so..

Today i sympathize with both FC and the staff for loosing their jobs and are forced to ship their company overseas, its a hard marked all over! I recently bought stocks in the game cause i have faith that TSW will be FC flagship to come, i have confindence :) Sad that its beeing delayed, as i really want to see it soon!

Funcom may have screwed the pooch with their AoC release, but they have done a good job fixing the game and it's issues. I like to think they learned a bit from that experience and are on the right track now. I hope they get it together for this game, becasue if they can release it in a stable state with finished content, The Secret World will be freakin awesome.

I think the layoffs and problems Funcom is having are a direct result of how poorly managed AoC was.

It never fails to amaze me how these companies spend so much time and money on these games only to release them in a poor state, which completely destroys the longevity and player retention. MMORPGs have huge reward possibilities with monthly subscriptions, but that is only if you can retain your customers. Settling for breaking even in such a massive undertaking as making a quality MMORPG is just horrible business practice.

Here is to hoping! :cheers:

I don't take enjoyment in someone losing their job, unless I specifically know that they aren't doing their job or doing it correctly. For that I'd have to work with them and see it to know (and I've seen that and then see the person get fired).

However when you continue to work at a company who's products are underperforming and that keeps making mistakes then you have to accept the fact that you either need to be looking for another job or accept the fact that you might get let go when the companies poor performance catches up with that. That is just common sense.

Now if this is a moving the studio and a person doesn't want to move that far away so they get let go, that again sucks. That is not like the situation above and it is unfortunate for someone to go through that, many people can't just move that far that easily. I know I wouldn't for my company.

It's also not fun when the economy tanks and people lose their jobs because other people and companies were greedy and stupid and caused the economy fail when the person who now has to lose his job did nothing wrong. But the economy is on the rise again and this can't be that.

So how much compassion you have for a person who loses their job is all in the context in which it happens. Although it is generally not nice to laugh directly at someone in their time of need like some people have, it also doesn't mean you have to necessarily feel bad for them either.

Ugh, I was really hoping that somehow The Secret World would make it through whatever troubles funcom was going to encounter and come out without being affected by it.

Time will tell I guess.

this is why i didn't bother with the conan 3 month get beta for tsw deal, i knew it was a sham

Seems like almost every MMO company is cutting staff these days. Not good for upcoming games.

Typical that they delay TSW, the idea is actually very neat (I just love Chaosiums "Delta green"). 

Hi all

This is 6months old. According to TSW's dev Ragnar Tornquist, the game is not being delayed, but another funcom project called dreamfall will. Thank god i guess that its being developed in Norway rather than the states or Canada.

you can find his blog here http://ragnartornquist.com/ and if interested you can look for the "definitely not indefinite" post

Yeah this is very old news, and I believe at the same time or just after they anounced the terminations, they anounced there were opening a new location in Canada I believe, but I may be wrong with that. From what I remember though I don't think they were actually losing any people overall, and may in fact have hired more than what they had before these layoffs.

look at the date of the OP....

Originally posted by severity3

I ALMOST feel bad, that when funcom banned me from the aoc forums for complaining about the multitude of missing promised features, I actually said...."when you guys start losing your jobs over there, im gonna giggle like a schoolgirl"

 

 

almost

 

 

./giggle

the problem is the ones responsible kept their jobs or willingly left and the ones who got canned were "just doing what they were told"