User blog:Sim533/The end?

Funcom has published their annual report for 2015 a few days ago. The game hasn't been doing well and the company doesn't believe that it will become better in the near future. The license agreement with LEGO will end in October 2016. If Funcom has no license to use the properties of LEGO, it does possibly mean that the game will be shut down in October 2016.

Funcom communicated in the Q3 2014 report that the initial numbers coming in from the first weeks of live data indicated that it would take longer than planned to achieve the internal targets for player and revenue in 2014 and 2015. The Company has during 2015 been unable to improve these numbers. As a result of this the revenues generated by LEGO® Minifigures Online did not meet the internal forecasts. The Company has therefore fully written off the underlying assets of the game. As of the time of this annual report, the Company does not find it likely that any of the game metrics will improve, and has adjusted its investment in the game accordingly. The license agreement with LEGO for the LEGO® Minifigures Online game ends October 2016.