That staff is no longer with Funcom. They are currently restructuring the whole way the new devs will be working on AO. Expect them to spend about 1 year in the transition process with nothing much at all happening on AO. Engine and new player experience developers are, last I heard, sticking around to finish these projects, so that will be going on while the content development is fumbling around trying to figure out where to slot in AO development between AoC and TSW, which no doubt have much higher priorities.