Whats up with the Funcom hate?

[DennyPhantom]

Devs said they parntered with them for marketing, so they can focuss on making the game while Funcom do the marketing.
And yet everybody n their mother is making it sound like the devs sold the whole company to them and now funcom is incharge, while only thing they are involved with is marketing.

Really dont get whats goin on here


"In addition, we’re delighted to announce that

we’ve partnered with Funcom for marketing duties

on our future projects."

"With Funcom taking care of marketing, we’re free to focus entirely on development, and as you will see with Dark Faction, this has given us the opportunity to raise the bar for both the quality and quantity of our content."

[Maya]

This is ridiculous, a political crap and propaganda about an indy game from a European country.
I don't care what country the game comes from. The only thing that interests me is the product, whether it's a game or a vacuum cleaner.

[Midas]

"When all you've got is an agenda, everything looks like a soapbox."
~Confucius, or something~

[wolonggong]

And now that the DLC is out and they have stopped lying it turns out future development of the game is going to based off the DLC...oh, which is now being called an expansion so they are going the funcom route and going to try to force people to buy it. How Funcom like of Eleon...

To think, this once great company had the loyalty of the majority of players that would have purchased Dev support packages to pay for continued development but instead they have spit in the faces of so many with this move trying to force more money out of people in an unfinished game. Any future release by Eleon will be marred by this with plenty reminding people not to buy the game until its actually complete least history repeat itself.

This is why so many small companies now have issues with early release access...companies abandoning games or trying to cash grab for even more money before finishing the game.

[Splutty]

Sabaithal님이 먼저 게시:

stecph님이 먼저 게시:

True,megacorporations like Funcom/Tencent are famous to give an helping hand to small but succesful Companies and help them grow:-)))

Temporarily. Then they push the team with unreasonable demands, and try to milk as much money out of the company as they possibly can, then when the sales start to drop they shut the company down completely.

Ask EA, they've done it many times.

Comparing EA (who has always been known for doing this) to Tencent (who is actually known for NOT doing this) is a bit.. Naff..

Of the list given on the first page, which of those companies have been "pushed with unreasonable demands" by Tencent? And before you start screaming about me being a Chinese shill, think about what I asked first :P The proof is in the pudding.

Tencent in China is a completely different beast than the Tencent holding firm that has done all these investment in Western companies (smart ones, too, if it comes to that..)

[PocketYoda]

To be fair Funcom has a pretty bad history with gamers.. Look up the The Secret World fiasco when they redid the game they literally screwed over customers who had spent a small fortune on cosmetics in the first one and the second game version was worse everyone went back to the original for as long as they could..

Conan was another fiasco.. Funcom built a pretty bad rep over the years so i can understand why the name is worrying..

[Splutty]

PocketYoda님이 먼저 게시:

To be fair Funcom has a pretty bad history with gamers.. Look up the The Secret World fiasco when they redid the game they literally screwed over customers who had spent a small fortune on cosmetics in the first one and the second game version was worse everyone went back to the original for as long as they could..

Conan was another fiasco.. Funcom built a pretty bad rep over the years so i can understand why the name is worrying..

Not sure what you mean with the screwing over? All my cosmetics transfered over from TSW to SWL? But yeah, that was absolutely not one of their best moves. Although at that point TSW was on life support (and still is), and SWL at least had some additional content (and is now also on life support, like almost all Funcom games).

The kinda funny thing is that Funcom never actually *canceled* a game. Conan is still there, TSW is still there, SWL is still there, hell, even Anarchy Online is still there.

[PocketYoda]

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PocketYoda님이 먼저 게시:

To be fair Funcom has a pretty bad history with gamers.. Look up the The Secret World fiasco when they redid the game they literally screwed over customers who had spent a small fortune on cosmetics in the first one and the second game version was worse everyone went back to the original for as long as they could..

Conan was another fiasco.. Funcom built a pretty bad rep over the years so i can understand why the name is worrying..

Not sure what you mean with the screwing over? All my cosmetics transfered over from TSW to SWL? But yeah, that was absolutely not one of their best moves. Although at that point TSW was on life support (and still is), and SWL at least had some additional content (and is now also on life support, like almost all Funcom games).

The kinda funny thing is that Funcom never actually *canceled* a game. Conan is still there, TSW is still there, SWL is still there, hell, even Anarchy Online is still there.

Only for some they did a lot didn't work, also they were time limited many didn't even know in time.. the hoops people had to jump through were broken as well to get the cosmetics across..

I never got any of mine transferred..

Anarchy was their only real hit of an mmo imo.

[BSNB]

This game was fun for a forever ea game. Should have moved on to a new game imo.

[**Sarge**]

DennyPhantom님이 먼저 게시:

Devs said they parntered with them for marketing, so they can focuss on making the game while Funcom do the marketing.
And yet everybody n their mother is making it sound like the devs sold the whole company to them and now funcom is incharge, while only thing they are involved with is marketing.

Really dont get whats goin on here


"In addition, we’re delighted to announce that

we’ve partnered with Funcom for marketing duties

on our future projects."

"With Funcom taking care of marketing, we’re free to focus entirely on development, and as you will see with Dark Faction, this has given us the opportunity to raise the bar for both the quality and quantity of our content."

i think funcom is gonna bring some big stuff in the future. if conan is any testament. thats a cool game and its packed full of features.

[PocketYoda]

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DennyPhantom님이 먼저 게시:

Devs said they parntered with them for marketing, so they can focuss on making the game while Funcom do the marketing.
And yet everybody n their mother is making it sound like the devs sold the whole company to them and now funcom is incharge, while only thing they are involved with is marketing.

Really dont get whats goin on here


"In addition, we’re delighted to announce that

we’ve partnered with Funcom for marketing duties

on our future projects."

"With Funcom taking care of marketing, we’re free to focus entirely on development, and as you will see with Dark Faction, this has given us the opportunity to raise the bar for both the quality and quantity of our content."

i think funcom is gonna bring some big stuff in the future. if conan is any testament. thats a cool game and its packed full of features.

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