Mark Jacobs, CEO of Warhammer Online developer Mythic Entertainment, has responded to rumors of layoffs within his studio.

He wrote on IGN's VN message boards Monday, "As part of EA, all studios are expected to do their fair share to meet the expectations of our CEO." EA boss John Riccitiello announced in December that the publisher would be cutting 1,000 jobs to trim costs following lower-than-expected sales of key products.

Jacobs added, "...We have a very large studio and pretty much every person there has been and will continue to work on [Warhammer Online] for quite a while (meaning we haven't started work on another game yet)."

Gaming blog Joystiq recently ran a rumor saying Mythic laid off “21 customer service employees, half of QA and all of the playtest group."

Jacobs' post addressed forumites who insinuated the rumored layoffs marked the beginning of the end of Mythic. He did not state exactly how many Mythic employees have been let go, although his comments implied that some layoffs did occur.

He said when Warhammer Online launched in September last year, Mythic had over 400 people working on the game. "...So it's not like we had a small team at launch or even a small team now," he stated.

"...The whole (OMG, we're losing half [of] the developer (or even of the total team) thing) is total nonsense."