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is anyone about ea being involved?
julrichh
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after ea screwed up battlefield 2. Then screwed up bf 2142 ( banned thousands of cd keys for no reason...then wanted to charge to replace them.)
Is anyone even slightly nervouse about their involvment here?
The only thing ive ever seen from ea is bug filled games where no fixes are ever made. Players are banned for no reason (ea got in trouble for this). Worst of all is their customer service.
Even though im looking forward to this game I hope EA is minimally involved with it
Is anyone even slightly nervouse about their involvment here?
The only thing ive ever seen from ea is bug filled games where no fixes are ever made. Players are banned for no reason (ea got in trouble for this). Worst of all is their customer service.
Even though im looking forward to this game I hope EA is minimally involved with it
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"I actually cook my meat with nothing but my burning hatred for vegetables"
Imo, good for the gamer
terrible for the rank and file mythic employee
LOok at it like this.
Your selling lemonade at your stand on the corner. The guy across the street, sees you make good drinks and offers to give you money to buy better watter, more ice, imported Brazillian sugar, and Florida lemons in exchange for splitting the proceedes 50/50 and you becoming partners.
Now when your neighbor buys you out, hes not comming down to run the day to day operations with you, nor is he going to change your recipie since its what is making you make such good drinks. He is going to give you financial backing and procede to make money on his other ventures, but will keep close tabs on his investment.... he knows in the end he wants one thing. TO MAKE MONEY.
I havent seen a single person that I knew from 5 years ago that worked at mythic fired... ok thats a lie, but that person was gone before EA came. Anyway, EA didnt make sweeping changes, nor have any of the devs lost their positions.
its a good thing for the game and for both EA and mythic!
You actually believe that EA banned thousands of BF2142 accounts for no reason what so ever?
Sounds like you just have an issue with EA.
The only thing I can see happening is that EA gives them an insane deadline which may mean that WAR is "uncomplete" at retail, but still theres a long beta stage.
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I think piracy is a compliment. I mean would you be searching high and low to get a cd key for "My Little Pony Online?" (i would, but that's beside the point.)
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Just keep your eye out when you see the original Mythic employees quitting.
Like when they moved the Ultima Online team from Austin Texas to Redwood City, California. They had a one year stipulation to stay on the Ultima ONline team thru the move. After that one year was over we saw about 4 people quit and leave, Speedman was one and Leurocian was another, Hanse went to work on The Godfather game then left EA as well. One other guy I can't think of but he was the lead voice at the EA Los Angeles Developer Meetup.
Frankly the only people from Mythic that I know since I did not play DAoC was Mark Jacobs the CEO of Mythic, and Sanya Weathers the public relations person. Its very safe to say that Mark Jacobs has already been paid HUGELY with the Mythic buyout to EA, so he must be still working for the love of the games being made and felt like it was a good deal at the time of acquisition
He called support they told him that account security was his own problem, not theirs, and they would not do anything to assist in recovering his lost items. They even verified that all of the stuff had been transferred to a level one character on someone else's account (wouldn't tell him who of course) but they would not do anything to fix it.
That is not what support would have done years ago as I knew people who had their stuff restored after someone deleted something on it.
So maybe this was the result of recent EA influence, and if so then WAR will be the poorer for it. We'll just have to wait to see how it goes.
BTW..my friend closed all 4 of his accounts.
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EA is counting on Mythic to breath new life into Ultima too, so if they're smart they'll let Mythic do what they do best.
Unfortunately, the gaming industy is full of publishers who are anything but smart. But the merger occured months ago and we haven't seen anything drastic happen.
We just need to keep watching and see.
You really got to look at it critically, 1. Only way to access account is knowing the correct username along with the password, and for the password, if it is weak, then it can be guessed; now if you say hacking, I'm gonna guess bruteforcing to guess the password, which is not likely if the system have a timed out policy and the password is strong (and it's logged for review). So but first, how would someone know another person username in the first place; he/she either mention it to someone or used malicious website or download a trojan / keylogger on their computer.
2. Every games have a policy saying that "YOU ARE" responsible for your own password and that it is securely strong enough and that you kept it safe. If their database got hacked, of course they would know about it because it contains thousands of other accounts.
3. If the problem is on their side, like leaking the username/password or database or weak in their security system to allow interception of logging, then it is mandatory for them to fix it. Other than that, if the user exposed their account then they'll try to do something about it but you gotta remember it is the user's fault for not keeping their account safe in the first place.
So there is no such thing as a real "hacked" account, and "hacking" isn't used correctly to its definition.
Please also keep in mind. Games Workshop will pull the License if they are bothered by ANYTHING being done with their IP.
Mythic has an excellent relationship with GW and EA is a long for the ride.
I wouldn't worry about EA at the moment. Future games are another story though.
Yes, I AM worried about the whole EA thing. Mythic was bougth, it doesn't exist anymore as a corporate entity. EA created a new department called EA Mythic and placed Mark Jacobs to run it, fine.
The problem is EA has a terrible record for Online games. UO is a ghost of its former self, Earth and Beyond was closed down even if it still had some 40k subscribers, yeah, not many, but still something. Sims online and motor city online were enormous flops...
This could be the one to change the online fate of EA? I hope so and yes, I know they are lettng them work... for now. What if WAR is succesful but not "enough"? Then you will see EA's marketing department stomping right in.
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EA wants to make money and they know mythic knows how to make MMO's so they will let mythic make the MMO them and GW wants to make
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MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
WAR IS COMING
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Actually you are way wrong about this So far Mythic has nothing to do with the creative content or direction of Ultima So far, as has been stated by Sanya Weathers Mythic's PR person, Kingdom Reborn and the first expansion Stygian Abyss is all under Aaron "Darkscribe" the current leader of the UO Team.