Mark Jacobs Talks About the Mythic/EA Merger

Grimwell writes "Mark Jacobs (VP EA) joined a discussion in our forums and shared his personal thoughts about the Mythic/EA merger: 'Another thing that has almost brought a smile to my face is that they are willing to embrace new IP that is not just WoW 2007 but IP that can stand on its own two (or three) feet without having to rely on the WoW userbase for its success.' Included in his hopeful thoughts was a healthy dose of realism: 'As always, I expect people to believe it when they see it.'"

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Variationon an Old IBMJoke

[Anonymous Coward]

Q: What do you get when you merge EA and Mythic?

A: EA

New cash cow

[sinij]

EA will whore out, milk dry Mythic and then will toss what left aside, just like they did to OSI, Westwood and many other once-great studios. I feel for Mythic employees, I hope they will like working 60-70h/week destroying souls of thier games one penny at a time.

Oh, the irony

[swordgeek]

Everyone is expecting EA to gut Mythic like a just-caught fish, and they're probably right--that's what EA does.

But there was a time, when the industry was young enough to not even be properly called an industry, that a group of dedicated programmers got together to form a company with the sole purpose of taking excellence in games to a new level. That company was Electronic Arts, and they revolutionised the computer gaming world, to begin with.

Sigh. All good things eventually die or become evil.