Comments on: Funcom Lays Off 60, Flees Europe For Rich Canadian Bounties

By: FrozenNadir

FrozenNadir — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:39:13 +0000

Wusses! You want cold… move to Winnipeg. ;p

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:58:05 +0000

The consensus has yet to be established if drinking heavily would improve Funcom’s MMORPG production capability.

By: D-0ne

D-0ne — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:37:49 +0000

When in the north, drink. Drink heavily. Moose Head with a shot of Canadian Mist. Trust me.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:42:58 +0000

‘Yeah, I know. I watch Question Period.”

lol

By: Bleaktea

Bleaktea — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:08:06 +0000

Yes, there’s always Ottawa. Let me elaborate on what “almost as cold as Ulan Bator” means: the city basically freezes into a single solid block of ice between December and March. Even spring is a little dismal, since we invariably find at least one dead little old lady who’s been buried in a snowdrift all winter. This once happened downtown. I apparently walked past a dead guy every day for months and never noticed. In other cities this would be a sign of a cruel and unfeeling population; in Ottawa it’s because anything that stops moving for five minutes gets two feet of snow on it.

My point here is that Ottawa is grim. Although I will agree about it having the best gaming store in Canada.

Montreal is fairly pleasant (once you accept the fact that Quebecois drivers brake for nobody) – and the province has definitely been working at setting the place up as a tech sector hub. Someday those government grants will go away, but by then hopefully the industry will have put down roots. For now, there’s a bunch of gaming companies in the area hiring along with Funcom; Bioware, for example.

By: Vetarnias

Vetarnias — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:00:23 +0000

“I lived in Ottawa…. It was brutal.”

Yeah, I know. I watch Question Period.

By: Gx1080

Gx1080 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:52:53 +0000

Company fucks up, employees pay the broken dishes.

News at 11.

By: Goodgimp

Goodgimp — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:58:44 +0000

I lived in Ottawa. It was cold. It was brutal. Then I moved to Thunder Bay.

Loved Ottawa though, I miss that town!

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:00:42 +0000

I didn’t have too much to about this other than I briefly “worked” with Funcom as a volunteer CSR and they’re pretty good people – sorry to hear they had to let a lot of their folks go.

So, why other to post anything? I might have found Lum’s next video in what the Goons inflicted upon Champions Online.

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:54:21 +0000

Really? You’d think there were more really cold capitals… guess not. Ottawa and Montreal have about the same temperatures…