Nonentity
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=827410Not gonna link directly to Kotaku, but: EA has shut down Mythic, the longtime video game studio most recently responsible for Warhammer Online and the Dungeon Keeper reboot for mobile platforms.
When reached by Kotaku, EA sent over the following statement:
We are closing the EA Mythic location in Fairfax, Virginia, as we concentrate mobile development in our other studio locations. We are working with all impacted employees to provide assistance in finding new opportunities, either within EA or with other companies via an upcoming job fair.
Founded in 1995, Mythic also developed Dark Age of Camelot and a number of other games.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
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Draegan
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Didn't think they were still doing anything.
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Didn't think they were still doing anything.
Yeah really... Warhammer was the last thing I heard out of that studio. |
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Paelos
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No tears from me after WAR. They didn't deserve to be a studio anymore.
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luckton
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Was only a matter of time. Though as a Dungeon Keeper player, I ponder who will take up the reigns now.
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Margalis
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Shocking news that not a single person could have seen coming.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Merusk
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Shocking news that not a single person could have seen coming. warned Mark Jacobs of in multiple posts on this forum when the deal was signed.
For more accurate snarkiness. |
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Bhazrak
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Like Warhammer Online, I'm surprised they lasted this long.
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Nija
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Another fantastic acquisition that flourished under EA's leadership and management.
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Nebu
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Another fantastic acquisition that flourished under EA's leadership and management.
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Rokal
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Was only a matter of time. Though as a Dungeon Keeper player, I ponder who will take up the reigns now.
Zynga! |
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Another fantastic acquisition that flourished under EA's leadership and management.
I'm not a fan of EA, but the fact is they gave Mythic every opportunity to succeed. They supported WAR development for many years. It was a fantastic license and was extremely well promoted upon release. Mythic wasn't Origin; EA didn't kill them then rape the corpse. Mythic was the agent of its own destruction. |
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Ingmar
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Mythic was the agent of its own destruction.
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Goreschach
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I like how they state that Mythic wasn't the 'makers of' but was responsible for WHO and the mobile Dungeon Keeper.  |
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Fordel
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Mythic should've closed after Trials of Atlantis, let alone WAR.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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naum
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Bring back Imperator, beyotches!
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Trippy
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I bet Paul Barnett still has a job  |
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Sjofn
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Bring back Imperator, beyotches!
Fordel wanted that game so bad. |
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Modern Angel
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I wonder who's gonna hire Paul Barnett to be Bez again.
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Fordel
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Bring back Imperator, beyotches!
Fordel wanted that game so bad. I really did, but it's probably for the best it never came to be. It would have only left me with sadness and tears. |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Nebu
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So much hate for Mythic. Warhammer was flawed, but still better than a lot of the garbage that has released since. I had a good 6 months worth of fun playing WAR and 6 years worth playing DAoC. That's more than I can say for most dev houses.
Barnett needs to find a job as a carnival barker.
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Modern Angel
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No hate for WAR. Still the best first 20 levels I ever played. Will probably always be. That is, like you said, better than most shit that comes out.
I do detest Barnett though.
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Sjofn
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Mythic did the best lady dwarves. :(
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God Save the Horn Players
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Fordel
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So much hate for Mythic. Warhammer was flawed, but still better than a lot of the garbage that has released since. I had a good 6 months worth of fun playing WAR and 6 years worth playing DAoC. That's more than I can say for most dev houses.
Barnett needs to find a job as a carnival barker.
WAR was flawed in the exact same way DaoC was flawed, to the point where I never even bothered to try it, since it was obvious Mythic had learned NOTHING. WAR just followed DaoC's game plan on a accelerated timeline. They managed to fuck it all up even FASTER then their original game!  |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Nija
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I had a good 6 months worth of fun playing WAR
Dude, did you enter a 5.5 month coma while logged in or something? How?! |
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Sjofn
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So much hate for Mythic. Warhammer was flawed, but still better than a lot of the garbage that has released since. I had a good 6 months worth of fun playing WAR and 6 years worth playing DAoC. That's more than I can say for most dev houses.
Barnett needs to find a job as a carnival barker.
WAR was flawed in the exact same way DaoC was flawed, to the point where I never even bothered to try it, since it was obvious Mythic had learned NOTHING. WAR just followed DaoC's game plan on a accelerated timeline. They managed to fuck it all up even FASTER then their original game! This is essentially why I bailed on WAR so fast. I enjoyed the first 20 levels or so, but definitely knew I had danced that dance before, and had no real intention of doing it again. |
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Nebu
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Dude, did you enter a 5.5 month coma while logged in or something? How?!
I played the hell out of the first two battlegrounds with friends and leveled one toon to 50 to see how broken it was. |
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Nonentity
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Mythic did the best lady dwarves. :(
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
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[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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Bhazrak
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Mythic did the best lady dwarves. :(
This. And the dwarf-copter. |
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Draegan
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So much hate for Mythic. Warhammer was flawed, but still better than a lot of the garbage that has released since. I had a good 6 months worth of fun playing WAR and 6 years worth playing DAoC. That's more than I can say for most dev houses.
Barnett needs to find a job as a carnival barker.
Mythic seconds. The game was shit and broken for the most part. |
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Numtini
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I feel bad in a vague nostalgia sort of way, but I can't say that their demise wasn't just. I knew the first time they said they were going to gather "metrics" that War had no future and they hadn't learned a thing. They thought they could pull the same stuff with War they had with DAOC and the world had moved on.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Nebu
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They thought they could pull the same stuff with War they had with DAOC and the world had moved on.
This makes no sense to me. WAR was nothing like DAOC. Nothing at all. The mistakes they made in WAR were very different mistakes. If anything, they made the same error as every other game that came out around the time of WAR. They were trying too hard to emulate WoW. |
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Numtini
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Not the game, their way of doing business.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Venkman
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This.
And it really wouldn't have mattered had they not got bought out. WAR would have been a relatively narrow title for the subset of RvR seekers who finally outgrew DAoC but continue to be a proven sustainable market.
Unfortunately, once they opened the marketing floodgates, all expectations become unmanageably unrealistic. This made WAR seem like a big failure when in reality it never should have been considered as a potential big success in the first place. There just wasn't any precedent that said they could go from a competently built title with some appeal into this mass market multi-mode multi-audience experience in the space of exactly one game.
Basically, I don't blame Mythic at all. I blame the expectations they inherited.
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