Following The Secret World disappointment, Funcom will focus on smaller games
In its latest financial report, Funcom has announced that EA-published MMO The Secret World has shifted 200,000 copies since it launched this past July.
That number is lower than expected, a fact the developer puts down to strong competition and mixed review scores. Specifically, Funcom says that ArenaNet deciding to announce the Guild Wars 2 release date just prior to The Secret World’s launch, and Blizzard committing to 25 September for World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria, had a big impact on sales.
As a result, the developer now plans to create “smaller, more focused online games” in a bid to reduce their risk by lowering costs and shortening development times.
Funcom Q2 revenue figures are down from $3.1 million in 2011 to $2.6 million in 2012.
the game sucks and that’s about it, if they made the game more fun and less about grind it would actually be a decent game.
even SWTOR did better and it’s all thanks to good gameplay, not because of good marketing.
That sounds very much like they aren’t pushing any further content out for it?
Yikes, that’s not good at all for the 12 people still playing.
In the MMO community, Funcom = AOC (Age Of Conan) which was a big fiasco.
No need to blame GW2 or WoW MoP announcement as a reason for the low sales figures : any new project from Funcom is DOA (Dead On Arrival) due to AOC legacy, no MMO player with a memory will trust that company again.
Period.
The best thing the devs can do to overcome that poor track-record is to drop the Funcom brand, start a new one and make sure no one links it back to Funcom…
/salute