Today we have important news to share with the community. EA is restructuring its RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic and BioWare. This newly formed team will be led by Ray Muzyka, co-founder and General Manager of BioWare. With this change, Ray becomes Group General Manager of the new RPG/MMO studio group. BioWare’s other co-founder, Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer for the new RPG/MMO studio group. Rob Denton will step up as General Manager of Mythic and report to Ray. BioWare’s studios remain unchanged and continue to report to Ray.By the way, don't say I didn't say so. From my Predictions for 2009 post.
Mark Jacobs, current General Manager of Mythic will leave EA on June 23, 2009. We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward. Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.
Mythic retains a strong team led by Rob who co-founded Mythic in 1995. Rob played a critical role in the development of Dark Age of Camelot. In his previous role as COO, he was responsible for all day-to-day management of the studio including all development, operations and support.
Please join us in celebrating the union of these two award-winning studios.
5. WAR will still be around by the end of 2009, but who remains around to develop it may be drastically different.This should serve as further historical proof that EA is poison for any company or development studio that it consumes. Give Bioware a couple years to ferment and we'll be right back here.
May Star Wars: The Old Republic rest in pieces, broken and abused.
"This should serve as further historical proof that EA is poison for any company or development studio that it consumes. Give Bioware a couple years to ferment and we'll be right back here."
ReplyDelete100% on the money with that. The number of studios left on the ultar of EAs corporate greed, is legion.
Bah ..ultar = altar. Heartless if you could change it and delete this comment it would be handy :)
ReplyDeleteGee...the GM of a technically flaw filled game that went from 700K subscribers to 300K subscribers in 4 months was axed. Thats like saying there will be an earthquake in california next month.
ReplyDeleteSorry, its going to have to stand as is :P
ReplyDeleteAlso, I just realized Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 doesn't spellcheck my comment box.
Hmmm...
Or let me use arrow keys or delete/etc keys.
Double hmmmm...
I find it interesting that so far both blogsphere and forum reactions have been half positive and half negative. I guess we will just have to see.
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