Funcom confirms layoffs and Secret World delay, Age of Conan not affected
by Griffin McElroy 
on Sep 30th 2009 11:50AM
We contacted
Age of Conan developer Funcom yesterday after reports from Norwegian news site E24 claimed the company
would soon be making major staff cuts. The company's director of communications, Erling Ellingsen, recently responded to our query, confirming the layoffs, and adding that Ragnar Tørnquist's mysterious MMO
The Secret World would indeed be delayed "by a few months."
Age of Conan and its in-development expansion,
Rise of the Godslayer, will not be affected by the layoffs.
Ellingsen explained that the cuts, which would primarily take place in Funcom's Oslo, Norway offices, were made "in order to adjust to the market situation." Though the layoffs are coming fairly soon after the developer announced its
new, Montreal-based studio, Ellingsen explained that "this has nothing to do with the establishment of our studio in Canada." We wish our Norwegian game-crafting allies the best of luck in getting back on their feet.
