Rumor: Entire Faxion Online team laid off

lol if this is true....

Remeber the story a few months ago about Sean Dahlberg, the SWTOR community manager at bioware that left the company to join faxion....

"Joanne Laroche, the Senior Community Coordinator, recently posted this on the official Old Republic website: "Sean Dahlberg has recently left BioWare. We would like to thank Sean for doing a great job building the TOR Community and we wish him well in his future endeavors!" -Massively.joystiq.com


Ya, he hates his life.

Not too surprising. I played the game a bit during beta and other than the heaven vs hell gimmick there really wasn't much there. The quality of the game was pretty low, and somehow even then they had already picked up a rather obnoxious player base.

With some triple A games going f2p the trend in quality overall isn't increasing. A few years ago this game's tech/systems may have gotten a pass, but when you can play games like Lotro, CO, DDO and AoC for free, a game this cheaply made doesn't stand a chance.

That really sucks. :(

Best of luck to them, if true.

No one likes to see anyone laid off. Good luck to the Faxion team, and better luck next time.

I feel sorry for the team.

I tried the game and it wasn't quite at the level that it needed to be at to be successful. The idea was interesting enough, but the execution was flawed. Performance was not great on high end hardware, and their were numerous glitches.

I wonder what Disney is going to do with it

I personally liked the game, but I just couldn't run it well on either my netbook or desktop computer and the desktop is suppose to be able to run it.

Either way, it's a shame and I hope these people get new jobs. I'm sure many went to other Disney arms.

I think sean dahlberg left bioware because some of his boys from wolfpack studios (shadowbane makers) were working on faxion. Joke's on them.

There is the other side of the rumor we are forgetting: the Disney buying out studios, consolidating, and plundering what they want and letting go of the rest.

My info on Disney is so-so, but they do seem interested in making an online presence in the gaming field (although they already HAVE a few games out there now). With the Marvel property (and the one already existing contract that it seems Disney has taken over already - Marvel Super Hero Squad) I am wondering just what exactly are there goals (again, since they already have games out there). Is it to monopolize the younger gamers? To set up a Disney portal of games? Maybe cash in even more? Eliminate competition while headhunting AND establish an even bigger game studio?

It's certainly a weird/wild time at Disney now. Even their comic books, that they've outsourced to other publishers since time immemorial they've recently taken away from Boom! and given to Marvel. Of course, this is logical, but Disney=Marvel nowadays so, to me, it suggests they want to do even more in-house.

that sucks, game wasn't my cup of tea. seems like it was only out for a few months. takes a while for an mmo to build a fan base. maybe the corporate heads should have spent a bit more money on advertising.

For what it's worth, I feel for the devs of this game. They were given a ridiculously small amount of both money and time and told, "Make a great game." That's just not the way it works.

This is a sad asd news

isn't Faxion is developed by the guys from Shadowbane?
man..SB is one of my favorite MMO ever, sucks to see them get laid off
i hope they get hire by major company soon.

Maybe Sean will return to BIoware?

GaHhhhhh sign of the times. Wouldn't be surprised if loads of MMOs shut down soon because of slumps in trade. Darwinism in its full glory.