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The Secret World profitable

New CEO speaks on restructure.

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GamesIndustry.biz spoke to fresh Funcom CEO Ole Schreiner about the challenges the developer is facing. He revealed that The Secret World is profitable after the recent restructure (although factoring in the development costs over the years, puts it well in the red):

"After the recent re-structuring of our internal teams, The Secret World is now a profitable operation and we expect it to be so for the foreseeable future. That's also why we are committing to the ambitious post-launch update plan. Of course, operating in the MMO business means you have to stay adaptive and evaluate yourself, your community and your competition, so we can't rule out a change in direction somewhere down the line. But we're quite comfortable with where we are now and what we're providing our players."

Schreiner also commented on the possibility of going free-to-play with The Secret World:

"...we definitely have the tools to turn The Secret World into a free-to-play game - or even hybrid - should we decide to do that somewhere down the line. We did that with Age of Conan with significant success. We all know that trends and expectations in the gaming business, and perhaps particularly the MMO genre, is evolving quickly, and we're regularly re-evaluating our business model against the changing currents of the marketplace and our own player base as well. Not only in terms of The Secret World, but also our future games."

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