BioWare and Mythic Combine to Form New EA 'RPG/MMO Studio Group' as WAR Lead Leaves

by Chris Faylor, Jun 24, 2009 10:06am PDT

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Electronic Arts subsidiaries BioWare (Mass Effect, Star Wars: The Old Republic) and Mythic Entertainment (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online) are to be combined into a new "studio group" led by BioWare co-founder and general manager Ray Muzyka.

Mythic revealed the restructuring today on its official website, with BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk serving as chief creative officer of the new group and Mythic co-founder Rob Denton now acting as general manager of the Mythic division. Denton will report to group general manager Muzyka, and BioWare's studios "remain unchanged."

Denton replaces previous Mythic general manager, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning lead designer, and fellow co-founder Mark Jacobs. The studio revealed that Jacob's last day at the EA-owned studio was yesterday, June 23, noting that "we thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward."

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If someone could explain to me how this would be bad news, I'd love to hear it. Mythic was a plucky upstart with great talent but limited resources. DAoC was an absolutely amazing MMO and the effort they put into it was obvious in the result, but the market was different: it was smaller. WoW changed the MMO market and I think, in that context, Mythic really benefited from their relationship with EA by helping to level the playing field monetarily. I wonder how much better the game could have been had their team been larger and more capable, i.e. if EA had bought Mythic sooner?

As far as I'm concerned there was no better PVP between UO and right now than there was in DAoC; to a certain degree, WAR continued that tradition. I would love to see Mythic's design principles continued in new games, and perhaps influence BioWare in that direction also.

Jun 24, 2009 11:01am PDT

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  DAOC was the greatest PvP game ever made. WAR, not so much. It's a bad thing because we don't know what will come from it. We could see great results from this new studio or we could see them jointly never living up to past endeavors.
  
  People are always unsure when mergers, restructuring, firing, and anything new happens in the gaming industry.
  
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  DAOC was the greatest PvP game ever made. WAR, not so much. It's a bad thing because we don't know what... : DougL
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  This is utter shit. Bioware was a maker of quality games. But we all knew this was coming when they were ... : master_disaster_17
  - What did "We all knew what was coming" exactly? For one, Bioware is very sovereign studio under EA. : droveri
- I think its awesome. I'm not quite sure but hopefully this helps them with rolling out new content faste... : kiloblaster
- DAoC was kickass until the Trials of Atlantis expansion - if it wasn't for that fucking tripe, it may hav... : Tech T

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