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EA merges Mythic & BioWare - WTF?
bluexy \| 9:06 PM on 06.24.2009	6 comments

Mythic: Developers of Dark Age of Camelot, and currently running the reasonable big MMO Warhammer Online.

BioWare: Developers of Baldur's Gate, MDK2, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Dragon Age. Currently making one of the most anticipated games of 2010, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

NOW THEY ARE ONE (kinda)! Yes, EA has decided to merge Mythic and BioWare into a new powerhouse MMO/RPG group. In what is supposedly a restructuring of MMO/RPG developers within EA, the Co-Owner of BioWare Ray Muzyka will take over as Group General Manager, while Mythic's co-founder and General Manager, Mark Jacobs, is... GONE. Yes, his last day is yesterday. Someone dropped the ball on spoiling that bit of information.

I can't say for sure, but it doesn't look like either of the companies will go through any excessive changes. There will just be a number of management changes, a new name for the division, and hopefully a little more organization between developers as a result.

Does this seem absolutely insane to anyone else? Think Marc Jacobs got the axe for Warhammer being underwhelming? I sure hope this doesn't mess up the release schedule of anything...

Source: Warhammer news

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It makes sense to me, bluexy -- you have a huge MMORPG support infrastructure already built at Mythic : QA, customer service, etc... which prevents Bioware from having to reinvent the wheel in order to support The Old Republic.

Bioware lends Mythic some creative talent, injects some fresh ideas into Warhammer, which still has a subscription base worth massaging, and hopefully re-energizes their players.

Or Bioware just absorbs the MMORPG support teams from Mythic and lets Warhammer die off. Seems like a smart business move either way.

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