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Electronic Arts To Aquire Mythic Entertainment

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dark-age-of-ea dept.

Pika writes "According to the Business Wire, Electronic Arts is to acquire Mythic Entertainment, makers of the popular MMORPGs Dark Age of Camelot and the forthcoming Warhammer Online. With EA being well known for killing MMORPGs, even those with loyal and sizable followings, how does this bode for Mythic's titles?"

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  1. Poor Mythic Employees by SydShamino · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... unless they were about to go under, this has to be a bad thing for every Mythic employee that wasn't also the owner. Despite claims that the "175 member development team will remain in Fairfax" or somesuch in the article, I cannot imagine any situation where, five years from now, any of the current employees will still work for "EA Mythic" in Fairfax. Either the corporate slavedriver pressures will push them out, or they'll quit or move when a "corporate realignment" moves the jobs to California.

    There's nothing inherently wrong with working for a big company. There's just something inherently wrong with working for EA.

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  2. Great. by Skynet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure they say they will let Mythic retain all creative direction, but we know how that worked out for Richard Garriot and Origin Systems.

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    1. Re:Great. by SydShamino · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Looks like EA corporate got a pile of mod points this week. Anyone who speaks ill of them and their past evils gets whacked with a "troll" tag.

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  3. Re:Confusion? by Bieeanda · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, because SOE has yet to actually kill one. EA had Earth and Beyond, was testing Motor City Online, and for a brief while had a Battletech: 3025 game in widespread beta. In addition to those being killed or canceled, they also canceled Ultima Online 2, another Ultima Online spinoff and fucked the Sims Online hard enough to make Maxis walk funny for years afterward.

  4. Shades of Multiplayer Battletech:3025... by Behrooz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be honest, for a minute I was in favor of EA acquiring and killing lots of MMOs, simply because I can't stand the current paradigms that most of the MMORPG genre are based on, like level treadmills and timesinks.

    Then I remembered that just five short years ago, EA killed my MMO dreams when they shut down Multiplayer Battletech: 3025. I place much of the blame for the tepid and weak pool of current MMO offerings on the axing of MPBT:3025, which was bar none the finest multiplayer 'mech experience I've seen.

    Damn you, EA. Damn you to hell for continually working to make MMO games suck forever.

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