Funcom Co-Founder Quits Due to Age of Conan Problems
- Scribbled on September 17th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, MMO, PC
Games Industry Biz is reporting that Gaute Godager, co-founder of Funcom, is leaving the company due to his dissatisfaction with Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
“We don’t want to go into all the specifics on what he was dissatisfied with - it’s sufficient to say that there were elements in the game that he was not happy with and he wanted to take the consequence of that,” [European product manager Erling] Ellingsen told GamesIndustry.biz. “The consequence was him leaving the company and allowing someone else to take over the project.”
If you read our negative review of Age of Conan, it’s plainly obvious that the title was a rushed product. Now its paying the price, as the initial 800,000 subscriber base has shrunk to 400,000 since its release.
Ellingsen has promised:
“The first things will be that we are updating the PVP, we’re adding new PVP features and that’s something players have been requesting for months now, they’ve been screaming at us… Next new content will introduce new areas into the game, new quests, hours of more exploration and so on. That’s two of the things we’re working very hard on right now.”
Is the damage too severe to be fixed? Let us know if you left AoC, or are still playing it.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
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