NCSoft Austin Studio Downsizing Confirmed -UPDATED-

As The Korea Times reported back in February that NCSoft is restructuring its Austin studio, The MMO Gamer can now confirm that, according to inside sources, NCSoft has been downsizing. Sources also say that the layoffs are only affecting development teams at the moment with customer service remaining as they are.

Also reported in February, the reason for the downsizing is the performance of NCSoft Austin’s Tabula Rasa, MMOG designer Richard Garriott’s latest title in the MMOG genre.

At the time of publishing, The MMO Gamer has not yet received a response from NCSoft Austin for an official comment.

Update: The MMO Gamer has received this official statement from NCSoft Austin:

We are announcing that 21 positions are being eliminated in the Austin office of NCsoft in the area of product development. Primarily this is related to products which we have not previously announced and were in prototype phases. We are also cutting some positions on the Dungeon Runners team after deciding not to port the client to other platforms at this time.