Funcom, Age of Conan developer today announced news which confirmed reports that it has laid off a number of its US employees.
Funcon representative admitted, Funcom have some staffing cuts this week as well as new positions opening in the organization as part of Funcom ongoing cost based efficiency and performance initiatives that are vital to any business.
In June, Funcom reported that their title MMO Age of Conan had captured a userbase of approximately 700,000 subscribers, however by August that figure had dropped to 415,000. Blizzard, World of Warcraft developer has claimed that 68% of WOW players who cited Age of Conan as a reason for canceling a subscription have since returned to Blizzard's game.
A rumor claims that 70% of Funcom’s workforce has been cut, with its customer service and quality service division seeing the bulk of the firings, even though the company did not specify the scale of the layoffs.
Since Age of Conan producer and game director Gaute Godager left the project, citing his dissatisfaction with the title, Funcom has focused on responding to subscriber feedback, releasing a large, free update to the game last week.
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