In case you hadn’t realised, the creators of The Secret Word, Funcom, have been through some hard times lately, including some pretty significant company restructuring.
That’s understandably got a lot of TSW players twitchy, particularly given that the next content update has been delayed to the 11th September.
One of Funcom’s community reps on the TSW forums, has jumped in to put a positive spin on things:
I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED!
But seriously, I am sorry that there haven’t been as many dev and CM posts as usual. There’s some heavy restructuring going on right now, and we’re all just working to get settled.
I wanted to come in here and assure you that Funcom and it’s teams are incredibly committed to making sure that TSW keeps it’s steady content flow. While I do know that there has been a delay with the implementation of Issue 2 – Digging Deeper, this delay should not affect other Issues with new content or updates/bug fixes from continuing as planned. We hope to continually improve the game by listening to the community’s feedback!
In the words of the Illuminati (which is not to say that Funcom is Lumie-run):
You either do or get done, and we’re not done.
We’re in this fully, and we have no intentions of stopping any time soon.
Like any posts like these, you’re not going to get a lot of insight into the true state of the nation, but at face value it seems there’s a real commitment to keeping things happening. No-one wants that more than me. As I said in my review of the game, there’s a hell of a lot to like about this game – enough for me to fork out for a lifetime subscription.
At the very least it’s worth buying the game with its 30 days of game time and working out for yourself whether it’s a keeper. I know that if this game does go under, it proves that innovation in the MMO sphere isn’t being rewarded like it should. SOme would say the MMO model has been dead for a few years now, but I’m a little more optimistic than that.
What about you?
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I am optimistic that The Secret World will keep going, and even grow. It’s such a good MMO that does so many things right (story, classless character building, atmosphere). I have been playing Guild Wars 2 at the same time, but it is The Secret World that I usually find myself thinking about. In my opinion it’s a far more memorable game. It just needs people to give it a chance.