The German company Gameforge, which publishes and operates such free-play games as Tera, Aion, HEX and Orcs Must Die! Unchained, refuses to publish mobile games and fires 90 employees.
“The competition in mobile has become too big. We were not as successful in the market as expected,” explains the company’s CEO Alexander Resner (Alexander Rösner).
He also noted that the decision is connected with the emergence of new opportunities in the free-duplex PC market, which the company is going to focus on in the future.
As of 2014, the number of employees of the company numbered 450 people. The company has no hits on the mobile platform. She was engaged in both the publication of hardcore games (Grimfall, War Game, Mafia Game) and casual projects (Crystal Runner). The company’s latest mobile game was the three-dimensional urban simulator MonstroCity, released on iOS in January this year.
Source: Gamasutra