Dune Awakening developers Funcom are laying off an unspecified number of staff

Fresh disconnected the MMO being, successful the studio's words, "the biggest merchandise we’ve had successful our 32-year agelong history"

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Dune: Awakening developers Funcom person announced plans to laic disconnected an unspecified fig of workers, citing the aforesaid request to "restructure" that's fundamentally go a byword for games manufacture occupation cuts astatine this point.

In a connection fixed to GamesIndustry.biz, the institution outline plans to "restructure our teams and absorption our resources from crossed projects and studios", which they accidental is required owed to "the modulation from improvement to semipermanent unrecorded operation, portion besides gathering towards a large console merchandise adjacent year".

"Unfortunately, this besides means having to accidental goodbye to cherished colleagues," Funcom continued. "This hard process is starting now, and we cannot yet find the nonstop impact. We are moving to find caller opportunities for those affected. Our absorption present is to supply these squad members with the enactment and guidance they need, and we inquire for your knowing astatine this clip arsenic we volition not marque further comments during this process."

The connection from Funcom made definite to emphasise that Dune Awakening, the MMO their unit brought into into the satellite backmost successful June, was "the biggest merchandise we’ve had successful our 32-year agelong history" and "has already shown unthinkable potential". It'll inactive beryllium getting caller additions and tweaks via updates going forwards.

It'll ne'er halt being sigh-inducing to spot companies large up themselves and their prospects successful 1 line, earlier fundamentally deploying a 'but, sadly, we've got to footwear these folks who've helped marque it hap retired of their livelihoods' successful the next.

Despite moving into immoderate glitches, our Brendy wrote the pursuing of Dune Awakening successful his review:

Awakening is dense with lore, and loyal to the childlike 'sand is lava' flavours of Dune. I've enjoyed it for the spot of its world, and I respect however straightforwardly Funcom person adapted the memorable features of Herbert's fabrication successful precisely the astir sensible way. If you walked retired of the cinema aft the Dune movies of caller years lone to person your thoughts and dreams peppered with imagery from those films, past this is astir apt 1 of the champion ways to sojourn and inhabit that distant desert. Just truthful agelong arsenic you acknowledge, going in, that you'll beryllium doing a batch much stone mining, h2o farming, and unexpected laughing than Timothee ever did.

Our champion to the Funcom unit affected by these layoffs.