Mythic's Mark Jacobs leaves EA
by Lesley Smith on Jun 24th 2009 12:00PM
Fantasy, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Warhammer Online, News items
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Mark Jacobs, the former General Manager of Mythic Entertainment and Lead Designer of Warhammer Online, has left EA on 23rd June, the company announced today. This comes as part of restructuring plans within EA which includes both Mythic and BioWare and have culminated in the formation of a new, as-yet-unnamed, studio which will focus on RPGs and MMOs.
The new studio will be led by BioWare co-founder and General Manager Ray Muzyka, who will become Group General Manager. BioWare's other co-founder Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer while Rob Denton will succeed Jacobs as General Manager.
You can certainly expect more from us as this story develops.
[Via The Examiner]
The new studio will be led by BioWare co-founder and General Manager Ray Muzyka, who will become Group General Manager. BioWare's other co-founder Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer while Rob Denton will succeed Jacobs as General Manager.
You can certainly expect more from us as this story develops.
[Via The Examiner]
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Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:02PM MtthwRddl said
...ME KIDDING! /snl
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:15PM Thac0 said
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:07PM GRT said
Copy/paste fail.
RSS means never saying you goofed. :)
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:14PM (Unverified) said
Pretty big "holy shit" moment in the MMO community. I guess Mark's shit talking and lack of production finally caught up w/ him.
I'm hoping that Bioware walks into the Mythic office and says "Romper Room is over. Get ready to treat your job like a job"
WE might see some actual turn around for the game.
........... Or they could just play w/ WAR to learn some things about MMO development before EA shuts it down, but long enough that they get some exp under their belts for the release of TOR.
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:47PM brookep said
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 1:22PM (Unverified) said
Who knows, w/ MJ out, EA may shut all three down.
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:12PM (Unverified) said
Putting BioWare in charge of Mythic can only be a good thing.
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:25PM Mr Angry said
With Bioware at the helm, it does open a lot of interesting and potentially great content to be added, however, has the horse bolted with WAR, has the lackluster subscription rates for this very highly hyped AAA title peaked to early, would it be easier to make a lot more money with another IP.
I guess we'll find out in the coming months, suffice to say, not much will be happening with WAR for the next few months, and after the land of the dead content is done, I'll be parking up my account to see what happens before investing further.
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:32PM (Unverified) said
Here's hoping Barnett has also been axed or 'relocated'.
Now all that's left for this industry is to see that other asshat, Roper, thrown out with the rubbish.
Happy days. (You deserved it Jacobs, and you know it..)
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 3:18PM Scarecrowe said
I'm sure Roper would be tossed out if he was part of Mythic as well!
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:44PM CCon99 said
With the Doc's taking over from BioWare, hopefully WAR will get a complete overhaul in the future and finally get the love the license truly deserves. Hell copy/paste WAR's graphic engine over top of DAoC and you'll have a 10 times better RvR game.
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:52PM (Unverified) said
forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=124848
Time to go take another look-see..
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 1:45PM Abriael said
Can't care the less about who leads the company, as long as it's competent, and the guys at Bioware obviously are.
The game has just become much bigger and more fun.
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 2:37PM (Unverified) said
Sure Abriael, sure.
All it needs now is.. people playing it?
I'm not anti-WAR nor pro-AoC, but you should possibly go spend some time in AoC as it stands now before making an ass of yourself here. Just to be sure.
If Conan is 'the king of failed MMOs', I'm not the only one who knows who his Queen is..
Waagh?
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 3:00PM Abriael said
Warhammer, on the other hand, it's not even near failure. It's population has been stable for the longest time at more than acceptable numbers, and it can only improve,.
"All it needs now is.. people playing it?" Lovely how you manage to throw an hammer on your own foot. You throw in misplaced (since warhammer has PLENTY people playing on it, unfortunately for your silly theories) sarcasm about WAR's population, and then you beg people to go play conan when it has just a fraction of Warhammer's subscriber base? Funny, in a pathetic sort of way.
I'm sorry if you have to play in a desert (population wise) while we play in the desert (enviroment wise), but I'm afraid tarantia Commons doesn't even come close to compare to LotD.
Posted: Jun 24th 2009 12:59PM Miffy said
WAR is just a pile of **** thought it's just a generic eas