I think a lot of this can be traced back to the time Mgmt decided to cut costs by relocating 1st to Canada, then to consolidate in the US, still with teams primarily composed of ppl who signed on back in europe.
I think a lot of this can be traced back to the time Mgmt decided to cut costs by relocating 1st to Canada, then to consolidate in the US, still with teams primarily composed of ppl who signed on back in europe.
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Gonna miss chatting with you both Macrosun and Genele!
Macro thanks for helping me with programming assingments I had at university, and Genele for all the discussions about NW and sub tl7 PvP. Going to miss you both very much indeed. Also gonna miss hax0r, he was such a kindered soul, not the brightest but he had his heart in the right spot.
Darkempire
Gee, no fanboi wanted to take my 1B credits bet? I'm so disappointed!
funcom nv (FUNCOM:Oslo)
Operating Profit/Net Income (annual)
2004: +1.2M
2005: -1.5M
2006: +0.6M (that was the last time the company actually returned a profit for a full year)
2007: -6.7M
2008: -26.7M
2009: -10.8M
2010: -0.6M
2011: -16.3M
2012: -62.2M
2013: -4.5M
Q1 2014: -0.6M
Q2 2014: -1.4M (what a surprise!)
Over the last 10 years, Funcom had losses of about 131.3M vs. 1.8M in profits.
Of course, Funcom keeps printing shares and KGL Investments keeps buying them.
Well, KGL is damned if they do and damned if the don't (FC goes belly up otherwise).
But perhaps the losses are a good tax write-off for KGL, who knows?
I've said it before, AO doesn't have a problem, but Funcom certainly does!
I have nothing to hide, but I value my privacy!
I'm not on facebook, twitter or any other social media.
I will never reveal my in-game characters or organizations on a public forum.
If that upsets all the virtual exhibitionists, so be it!
It's not been a secret that FC has been under the poorest of management in the last many years. A bunch of greedy fellows who tried way too hard but had no idea what they were doing have resulted in a company that exploded and imploded, because it was so out of control.
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The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
Funcom in Norway is in trouble, due to many shareholders, CEO and key employers are under investigation by Norwegian economic crime division. Because these guys are actually making alot of money for manipulating the market.
Long story short, if you want to make money, buy Funcom shares when they are about to release a new game title, then sell or short sell right after the game has been released to the market.
Former Funcom CEO did that.
PS: incase for being accused for trolling by Funcom moderators, and getting infractions due to their lacks of knowledge, heres source:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...ng-Allegations
. . . everything in creation is impermanenT
Agree that this isnt hot news, but the investigation is still ongoing.
I also find it funny the majority of AO gamers keeps flaming Funcom developers, designers and game directors for doing a bad job without taking these circumstances into consideration.
Its like flaming the poorest part of Africa for being poor, without understanding their background history.
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You forgot to paste the whole thing
* Says Q2 revenue USD 3.2 million versus USD 5.5 million * Q2 EBITDA loss USD 484,000 versus USD 1.3 million * Says sees operating costs to be in line with or increase compared to last
quarters * Q2 EBIT loss USD 983,000 versus loss USD 253,000 *
So that's drop in revenue and still in loss
Why?
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Dritst 220/30 Agent equip pic // Vhaeraun 218/30 fixer // Dylinrae 217/30 trader // Seldszar 220/29 adv
Nhaundar 216/16 Trox enf <3 equip
* http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=544974 <3 ty, how some ppl can be
* S*rovi1: cant log in game funcom not responding Mrdex: they're translating Mrdex: give em some time.
* Phante: whining is directly proportional with incompetence imo the more you sux the more youll cry and ask for stupid stuff.
* [Provision]: 500m if you can even dent me You gained 103 PVP Solo Score.
agreeing and summing up:
- full content for everybody,
- fluff for money (item shop or sub=not otherwise buyable fluff)
- steam - why not?
- expand item shop, get us costumes, vehicles, FLUFF nanos for reasonable prizes
- i dont really care for the engine, as the game already has a kind of nostalgic beautyfull graphics which i do like.. build on it!
(on the other side a korean studio would retweak all the models in a matter of weeks)
and the most important thing - MAKE THE GAME PLAYABLE ON THE NEW GENERATION COMPUTERS (win 8+)
If this game went down the hill when Sirrilon left, imagine now when theres what? 2 dudes working on it...
R.I.P
Holy cheez-its there's actually hope for AO with Michi at the helm and fresh talent.
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Jenaku - 220 ma
Dexiecane - 220 adv
Decksii - 220 sold
soup guys?
I agree full content for everybody that PAYS for it. How else do you think people will continue to work on it? They aren't doing it for free.
Other than frustration pay is probably the main reason we keep losing devs, and directors. There is a certain amount of PAY these people require to deal with the hard to work with code and nasty forum posts they see daily.
Seriously I wouldn't do it unless the pay were upwards of 60k per year minimum, only because I like AO. I certainly would go all Madea or Katt Williams on some of the posters.
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Wow, be away for a week and chaos happens! Why it's almost like anarchy.
Thank you Genele and Macrosun. Good Luck!