The announcement last week that Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas is stepping down to take on a ‘strategic advisory role’ on the eve of the launch of The Secret World is a bad omen.
Executives tend to remain in place until either resigning at what they believe to be the peak of their business’ performance, or being outed by the powers that be in anticipation or following a decline.
Either case would not be good news for a newly launch game which has a largely positive buzz around it so far.