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EA buys Mythic

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6152958.html

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  • AnagethAnageth Member Posts: 2,217

    Yep, it's on Mythic's homepage too...

    http://www.mythicentertainment.com/press/06202006EAMythic.html

    Let's hope EA doesn't screw anymore games up *caugh* UO.

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  • PhoenixsPhoenixs Member Posts: 2,646
    If you look at EA's track record this doesn't look to good. 

  • AnagethAnageth Member Posts: 2,217

    Originally posted by Phoenixs
    If you look at EA's track record this doesn't look to good. 
    Yep that's what got me worried when i read it. I've never tried DAoC, but I was interested in WAR.

    No longer visiting MMORPG.com.

  • TithrielleTithrielle Member Posts: 547
    Wonder if all the SOE haters that jumped ship to WAR from Vanguard will have a problem with this too.

  • konartiskonartis Member Posts: 6
    I think EA will make WAR be just another WOW clone to make them money.
  • ianubisiianubisi Member Posts: 4,201

    It will be deeply amusing to watch the shifting of allegiances amongst all the partisans out there. Let the games begin.

  • PhoenixsPhoenixs Member Posts: 2,646
    Wasn't there a story a while back where EA and Mythic had been in the talks, but decided not to go further?

  • SpathotanSpathotan Member Posts: 3,928
    I guess WoW wins again. Horray......

    "There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
    — Boba Fett

  • sleepyguyftlsleepyguyftl Member Posts: 648


    For anyone who like DAOC, enjoy it now. EA will ruin it just like they did motor city online, Earth and Beyond, and Ulitma Online.

    http://www.gametab.com/news/602713/

    "The addition of Mythic to the EA family reflects our deep commitment to the online gaming market worldwide. Mythic will bring one of the industry's most talented MMORPG teams to EA. Together, we will create games that will introduce MMO players to a whole new level of game play and excitement," said Paul Lee, President, EA Studios.

    I'm not a violent person. I'm really not. But that statement makes me want to do nothing more than punch Paul Lee in the face. Oh yeah, it bring one of the most talented teams in the industry to EA. Just like they did with Origin! Oh and westwood, look the level and excitement it brought to EA.

    One other thing I thought of... Warhammer Online. It's being developed by Mythic. Anyone who is looking forward to it, forget it. It's done for.




  • MuraisMurais Member UncommonPosts: 1,118
     This upsets me greatly. I was rooting for WAR on near-Fanboi-ism. However, I detest most corporations, especially the gaming ones, because they tend to meddle... a lot.


      Here's hoping they stay the fx off WAR.


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    Damn.

  • Zaxx99Zaxx99 Member Posts: 1,761

    Terrible news.

    Oh boy, I can't wait to play Warhammer Online on their all new "Trammel" server! Oh boy! Oh boy!

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  • MuraisMurais Member UncommonPosts: 1,118
      Well, I took the nice route, now this is how I really feel.


        I detest EA. I hate them above almost all game companies. They have the worst tech support I have experienced to date, will do anything for a quick buck, and just scoop up independant companies and crap them out into husks.

       I am on borderline blind rage at this news, because EA = bad. EA = "We're going to take everything you've ever loved and make it disappear. Forever.". This was something I was SERIOUSLY looking forward to. I've been stuck on WoW for ages, and I was hoping this would finally be the game to save me, and now, because of good ol' American capitalism, I'm screwed. Again.

       I swear, if this game becomes a devoid husk, like all other EA MMOs, I may get violent. I know it sounds pathetic "lol, he's pissed about a video game", but yes, I am officially pissed off. Nothing good comes out of the cold, emotionless machine that is EA, and I'll be damned if they screw up something I just became attached to.


       /rant off.


  • devils_hymndevils_hymn Member Posts: 322

    Originally posted by Vendayn
    The MMORPG doomsday is among us. First SOE and vanguard...now EA and warhammer?


    The days of good mmorpgs gone...may arise the dark dark days of bad mmorpgs overtaking the market! What worst can happen! Oh what a world! And bill gates retiring from microsoft! IT IS THE DARK DAYS! The internet as we know it will be gone too to the darkside! The government will overtake the internet too...then we will be back to the cavemen era! ITS DISASTER!



    hey its time for us all to get jobs and make new game! with the money we save me you and millions others can make a good game XD i dont even know you lol
  • LasraikLasraik Member Posts: 170
    Any chance Warhammer had went buh-bye.

    http://www.TheGamersAssociation.com

  • claytchclaytch Member Posts: 1
    Maybe EA will just sitback, sign checks and let Mythic handle Warhammer...

    The fate of DAOC however, is most likely already written.


  • seabass2003seabass2003 Member Posts: 4,144
    Please tell me this is a joke. This is bad. Very very bad. I haven't bought anything from EA in a long time, that company is bunk.

    In America I have bad teeth. If I lived in England my teeth would be perfect.

  • noblotnoblot Member Posts: 287

    I think DAoC will be ok, no one really will want to mess with a middle aged game with solid customer base, but limited appeal to new customers.Now, like others, I have been drooling for WAR (being a total GW fan for decades) and I suspect EA will not be able to help themselves from screwing with it.It'll be like those Orange phone ads we have in UK Cinemas where they interfer with a director's film script in the most insanse way.

  • BrianshoBriansho Member UncommonPosts: 3,586

    Warhammer Online will transform into Twinklehammer Online....
    Dark Age of Camelot will transform into Dark Age of Carebears...



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  • ChrisMatternChrisMattern Member Posts: 1,478

    Originally posted by Anageth

    Originally posted by Phoenixs If you look at EA's track record this doesn't look to good.

    Yep that's what got me worried when i read it. I've never tried DAoC, but I was interested in WAR. image

    DAoC may not be badly hurt by this, EA may regard it as too old and minor to futz with (although if they get on a "we need to maximize all our resources" kick, who knows...). But with WAR, they're going to want to have..."input".

    Chris Mattern

  • tetsultetsul Member Posts: 1,020
    Wow that's great news... for Funcom.
  • UmbroodUmbrood Member UncommonPosts: 1,809

    Inbloodycredible, this is like the crystalnigth of gaming.

    Obviously the people that work for mythic had no shares in their company, or they did and just hate the company and their games so much they went trough with this.

    Regardless of what they payed, there are some things you do not even do for money, ( unless you are EA of course ), and selling out to the antichrist of gaming is one of them things.

    Let me put it this way, I do not like SoE, but I would rather GIVE them the game then sell it to EA for a hundred billion.

    And Tetsul is rigth, any gaming company who knows anything about their history is surely having a party today, a whole bunch of competing titles wiped out in one swift strike.

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  • MMHELMMHEL Member Posts: 313

    EA is going to make this a carebear MMO with all new safezones and Battleplace. This is the worst news Sense the CU and NGE of SWG. hope is fading now lets see Age of Conan................ P.S Next thing we now Funcom will be bought out then NCsoft and then MMO gaming will stop

  • DrimliDrimli Member Posts: 21

    It will be interesting to see what happens to the hype meter in the next few days.

    Who knows maybe EA will stay out of WAR, maybe Mythic got a deal sooooo sweet that they have more control over what they can do than even Blizzard does with their parent company.

    And monkeys might fly out of my ass - we will just have to wait and see.

    The thing to watch will be how GW reacts and how big the exodus from Mythic is after WAR launches as I would assume many of them are under contract till it goes live.

  • MMHELMMHEL Member Posts: 313

    Originally posted by Drimli

    It will be interesting to see what happens to the hype meter in the next few days.
    Who knows maybe EA will stay out of WAR, maybe Mythic got a deal sooooo sweet that they have more control over what they can do than even Blizzard does with their parent company.
    And monkeys might fly out of my ass - we will just have to wait and see.
    The thing to watch will be how GW reacts and how big the exodus from Mythic is after WAR launches as I would assume many of them are under contract till it goes live.
    That would be awesome but its not going to happen and to me the last hopes are AOC and Roma-victor
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