The genre is competitive and unforgiving, as it would seem developers are finding out, the Scandinavian game makers announcing that they closing over half the servers supporting their game.

Server operations will be cut from 49 down to just 18, which means that certain servers are going to get much more cluttered, as they are generally run on a regional basis.

The US and Australasia will now be served by just six servers, from a previous 24, while will be cut to 12 having once boasted 25.

Funcom have already cut staff (before Christmas), and it appears that more belt tightening is in order as the firm battles to continue.

By Luke Guttridge

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