May 30th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 6 Comments »
Yet another mobile developer leaves the market as Jamba (or Jamster) has closed down Ojom, their German mobile games development unit.
CEO Mauro Montanaro choose to shut down the company because the market is maturing too fast. Jamba receives big quanities of mobile games from various developers and publisher and so has no need any more to develop mobile games in-house.
Ojom has a huge portfolio of brands it’s not known at this moment what will happen to them. The brands that are already developed into a mobile game will probably serve out their time though.
This news came via MocoNews.net and one of our own sources.
Never played their phone games but they made an mmo called face of mankind which must have been the best game ever until they sold it to DPS. they should turn toward mmorpgs and make the great games they were made to, mmorpgs.
@ Mr. Penguin
Are you stupid? it was first developed BY DPS (Duplex Studios), who needed a publisher and got one from Ojom. DPS made the game, not Ojom
Unfortunately, because Ojom had no experience toward MMORPGs, they ruined the game with bad leadership, poor community managment, and eventually dropped the game.
Personally, i am glad that Ojom finally got liquidated. hopefully none of the people who worked at that disfunctional company will ever find work in the software business again.
Good, they ruined an amazing game in Face of Mankind and seemed completely oblivious the whole time they were doing it.
FOM was by far the most amazing game ever. It was hugely popular than ojom decided to make it more noob friendly and it took a turn for the worst. God FOM is the only MMO that I have truely ever loved….go die in a god damn fire ojom. You are morons. Let the developers develop and the publishers market
Ya thank god Ojoms Gone. Now we just need DPS to get Liquidated so they sell the FoM Source for money 😉 Get some OpenSource company to buy it :D.
Praying for you next marko in this long line of Liquidation 😀
I for one will miss our Mobile phone overlords