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Title: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Simond on June 20, 2006, 02:15:22 PM http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060620/20060620006061.html?.v=1
Quote REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2006--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS - News) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Virginia-based Mythic Entertainment®. Upon completion of the acquisition, Mythic Entertainment will become EA Mythic, a wholly-owned studio dedicated to developing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). Mythic is recognized worldwide for revolutionizing the online gaming space with the award-winning Dark Age of Camelot® and is currently developing Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning(TM) under license agreement with Games Workshop. ADVERTISEMENT The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close during EA's second quarter of fiscal 2007. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Upon completion of the acquisition, Mark Jacobs, the President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Mythic, will become Vice President, General Manager of EA Mythic. Rob Denton, the Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Mythic will assume the role of Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of EA Mythic. Mythic's 175-person development team will remain in Fairfax, Virginia. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: HaemishM on June 20, 2006, 02:19:01 PM Le sigh.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: tazelbain on June 20, 2006, 02:20:55 PM Grrrrr.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: WayAbvPar on June 20, 2006, 02:28:36 PM Wow. They just crumpled without Lum! :-D
This seems awfully un-Mark Jacobs*. The details must be interesting. *not that I could blame him for accepting a big fat check. But EA?? Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: schild on June 20, 2006, 02:30:23 PM Oh, neat. I heard about this a while ago but didn't think it would happen. Now I have to boycott Mythic. Interesting turn of events.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: angry.bob on June 20, 2006, 02:32:04 PM Well, there go any hopes at all of WAR being a decent game.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Cheddar on June 20, 2006, 02:33:29 PM I thought EA was giving up on the entire MMORPG thing.
Goddamn you, WoW. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: eldaec on June 20, 2006, 02:35:10 PM On the upside it might just mean the end for GOA.
I accept that doesn't do us any good if the MMOG itself takes a last minute change of direction and becomes a crappy console sports title or whatever. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: stray on June 20, 2006, 02:37:18 PM It's actually a pretty damn smart move by EA. There isn't a better way to fast forward back into the MMO game.
I doubt this will do anything to destroy what's in the works with WAR. Probably won't improve it either. I'm kind of worried about how they'll crank out and handle expansions though (Look at how they've tried to milk BF2. A shooter). Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Simond on June 20, 2006, 02:40:52 PM It's actually a pretty damn smart move by EA. There isn't a better way to fast forward back into the MMO game. That sounds plausible...if EA hadn't utterly fucked up every single other MMOG they bought, developed or cancelled.Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Hoax on June 20, 2006, 02:45:01 PM Damn I was really hoping EA would buy Turbine before they bought Mythic, I wonder how long before EA just buys the country of Korea?
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Nebu on June 20, 2006, 02:46:39 PM My favorite MMOG of all time (and not even my first!) being absorbed by the borg. This is a very sad day!
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Ironwood on June 20, 2006, 02:48:34 PM Wait a minute : The thing we predicted ages ago happened ?
Surprised. Not. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Flood on June 20, 2006, 02:57:00 PM Well even though I played DAoC for awhile I don't have that lose your virginity bonding going on with it thankfully. Still and all... pretty ass. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Arthur_Parker on June 20, 2006, 03:12:50 PM Shit and Bollocks.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: HRose on June 20, 2006, 03:14:27 PM Now I have to boycott Mythic. Interesting turn of events. You don't really need to. It's fairly possible that they'll implode by themselves.Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: stray on June 20, 2006, 03:23:42 PM It's actually a pretty damn smart move by EA. There isn't a better way to fast forward back into the MMO game. That sounds plausible...if EA hadn't utterly fucked up every single other MMOG they bought, developed or cancelled.Oops...I didn't clarify. It's a smart move for EA is what I meant. It saves them a lot of trouble. Whether it saves everyone else a lot of trouble is another thing. Also, this might be a good indicator that WAR is looking good already. Naturally, EA wants a WoW killer. They must see something here that would give them a good chance. [edit] And on the same note: Wtf are they going to buy Turbine for? Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Strazos on June 20, 2006, 03:26:23 PM I just remember how they slowly killed Earth and Beyond.
There goes the neighborhood. GG MMO genre. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Arthur_Parker on June 20, 2006, 03:26:35 PM I wonder if EA pushed for the test trial of WAR on the X-box. It seems Blizzard are destined to have the best mmorpg for next few years, I'm not buying into Conan and I don't see anything else on the horizon now that we can pretty much write WAR off.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Rasix on June 20, 2006, 03:26:44 PM And on the same note: Wtf are they going to buy Turbine for? Blood sacrifice for the altar? Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Modern Angel on June 20, 2006, 03:36:09 PM Hard on for WAR fading like that time I started to think about Margaret Thatcher while JACKING IT!
Fucking EA. We can't have nice things. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Krakrok on June 20, 2006, 03:36:49 PM Sounds like a smart move for the owners of Mythic and a smart move for EA. Maybe not so happy for the Mythic employees (unless they had shares) and crappy for customers.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: schild on June 20, 2006, 03:37:12 PM Apologies, the robot forces me to deal with it this way: Continue discussion here -> http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=7376.0
Btw, Simond, didn't mean to hijack your thread, but at this point I'm fairly sure merging it with the other one would have fucked up the robot. If it doesn't (as per Trippy saying so), I'll start doing that instead. Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Trippy on June 20, 2006, 04:39:33 PM As long as the first post in the topic with the same name as the front page article is created by ForumBot it should be fine -- i.e. if you merge this thread into the one started by ForumBot it should work.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: schild on June 20, 2006, 04:44:32 PM The bot post would not have been first, it goes in chronological order.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: WayAbvPar on June 20, 2006, 04:45:05 PM It isn't wise to rile ForumBot.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Trippy on June 20, 2006, 05:32:46 PM The bot post would not have been first, it goes in chronological order. Probably still doesn't matter as long as ForumBot created the topic. Let me test it.Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: schild on June 20, 2006, 05:34:25 PM HERE COMES THE INTERNET.
Title: Re: Satan buys out Mythic. Bagels not included. Post by: Trippy on June 20, 2006, 05:41:10 PM Okay don't merge, it doesn't quite work right. The merge will work but if you edit the front page article it'll mess up the first post in the topic.
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