Funcom establishes new development studio in Montr
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http://www.funcom.com/wsp/funcom/frontend.cgi?func=publish.show&func_id=1361&table=CONTENT
Finally official. So. Um. Hello montreal. I´m notorious p.i.g and I´m gonna fuck up your city.
Finally official. So. Um. Hello montreal. I´m notorious p.i.g and I´m gonna fuck up your city.
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I´m a TSW´er and there will be a TSW-group in montreal. So sign up and work with assholes like me.
Vancouver's not dying... It's quite the opposite. It's thriving and it's WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. That's one reason Montreal may become a more popular target for expansions. There's also better tax relief for game developers there afaik.
Makes me wonder how long it's gonna last. I have trouble believing the province that bleeds the most money in Canada, can maintain a 50%+ subsidy on salaries.
45% of the federal arts and entertainment fund. Although i'm still convinced that money is almost entirely spent on dubbing family guy and the simpsons into quebecoinese.
Yeah, so in other words it's dying, combine that with the unionizing of the fx industry there and it's going to tank.
Well, no. It's thriving. It's just expensive. So if you're here you have to be really good or on the outskirts. We have many successful studios here and new one's still popping up despite and as a result of layoffs from the bloated giants over the past year.
On the other hand Montreal is cheap to live and rent space and additionally there are some great tax breaks. So they're likely to continue growing. Which doesn't mean that anyone else is dying... this is still a growing industry.
I'm sure it'll do well in the future, but I'd call it stangnating at best.
Dude, I waited 7 years between TLJ and Dreamfall.
As much as I'd kill to play the next installment, it'll probably be a while.
Will that studio also focus on MMOS?
unrelated: im going to Montreal for 6 weeks, flying sunday! :P
Anyway. As far as i know the next studio will be MMO´s aswell. The tsw team will be both there and in oslo. Straight from the mouth of ragnar. Seeing how i will be in canada aswell i sure as hell hope so.
I´m at the beijing studio right now though