Funcom CFO quits after $23.3 million loss

Get in de choppa! Take me to de hazpital!

The company's board might of lent a helping hand with that decision. : )

Also, the Conan game was so bad it was good. It is worth the $9 just for the laughs.

Yes, because the guy in charge of accounting had a say in the design and marketing of a major flop and lack of other revenue sources. Get real, he's bailing because he knows something we don't. This is a good indicator that Funcom may not survive in the future.

If you look at each person in a business as an individual rather than a whole, then sure, bail out now. But a business isn't about the individual jobs, it's about everyone working together, even if you don't think your job was the reason why you experienced a loss/failure.

As a person in upper management, you either have the devotion to the company and its people to stick it out and help to recover or to move on so you can leech onto something that you know will make money.

I take it you didn't play it on launch. Age of Conan was one of the worst MMO launches in recent memory. Sure, games such as "Dark and Light" had worse -- but with Age of Conan promising to be the savior of PvP MMOs it was horrible.


Honestly I called all this shit happening with Funcom like 8 months back. Poor sales, poor sub figures AND a poor economy does not = good.

Age of Conan's first 20 levels was probably the best 20 levels I've ever played in an MMO.

The rest sucked balls.

Assuming all of your happy-happy-joy-joy assertions are 100% true and accurate, and that patch 5 or whatever will do miracles for AoC - who out there is really going to KNOW about it?

AoC has already been launched, since about a year actually. All the pomp and circumstance the title gathered from that event has evaporated long, long ago. All that's remained in people's minds for months is a game that's buggy, ho-hum at best when it comes to content and playability, and quite desolate in terms of players.

You can't patch up a game to gold standard a year post-launch and expect it to make a huge difference, or maybe even any measureable difference whatsoever. At best it'll bring back some fed up ex-AoC subbers and perhaps gather a couple burnt-out WoW addicts who were previously interested yet too ambiguous about the title to jump ship in the past due to its poor quality and reputation.

It's not going to bring in a large influx of new players - particulary not players new to MMOs and their subscription model. Not without the mother of all marketing campaigns, and a complete redesign of the game to appeal to the more casual type player rather than the hardcore gamer who enjoy spurting blood and rolling heads - like Blizzard is doing with WoW.