Mark Jacobs, VP over at Mythic in charge of the Warhammer Team confirmed that there would indeed be layoffs in the near future but assures us that the game will go on and development will continue.  You can read the post in his consolidated Layoff rumor thread over at the official Warhammer Online forums but for ease of reference I have copied it...

Mythic recently released a Herald Article showing "proof" that balance between the opposing factions was now basically "fixed".   The first thing that sticks out from their post is that they bucket all servers together by US and Monolith servers, so basically two buckets.  At that level things do look relatively balanced, but the concern has always been that specific servers are way out of balance.This rather positive post is misleading because the...

The dev team posted their latest news regarding sieges in Warhammer Online and the known lag problems when participating in this type of gameplay.  The news is that they have implemented a solution for the lag....  I like to call it simply "Begone wimp!"  Basically as the population in these besieged cities becomes higher the game begins to forcibly teleport players away from the area based on their level.  Basically if you aren't level 40 then you will be...