German game company Gameforge has announced plans to leave mobile gaming behind and to focus all its efforts on PC games in the future. According to MediaBiz, this has resulted in the company laying off a fifth of the staff working at its headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany. An estimated 90 people have been affected by the decision.
In a comment translated from German, Gameforge founder and CEO Alexander Rösner explained that the decision to move away from mobile games comes as a response to the company being less successful in the market than originally expected.
The company deals primarily in free-to-play online games like Orcs Must Die Unchained, Aion Free-to-Play, Tera, and many others. Rösner says that the free-to-play PC market has offered interesting opportunities, while the mobile games market has become more difficult to work with.