MYTHIC and BIOWARE merging

[Necuno]

MYTHIC and BIOWARE merging

In a surprising announcement, EA has stated that Mythic and BioWare have undergone a severe re-structuring, merging the two studios and putting BioWare's General Manager Ray Muzyka in charge of both teams effectively cutting the General Manager position for Mythic.

Mythic's Mark Jacobs left on June 23, 2009, but it is unknown as to whether he was relieved of his position through the merge and was offered no other alternative or it was his choice to walk away from the newly merged MMOG studios.

This move brings the moderately successful Warhammer Online and the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic under one development roof and both under the guidance of a single General Manager.

Today we have important news to share with the community. EA is restructuring its RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic and BioWare. This newly formed team will be led by Ray Muzyka, co-founder and General Manager of BioWare. With this change, Ray becomes Group General Manager of the new RPG/MMO studio group. BioWare’s other co-founder, Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer for the new RPG/MMO studio group. Rob Denton will step up as General Manager of Mythic and report to Ray. BioWare’s studios remain unchanged and continue to report to Ray.

Mark Jacobs, current General Manager of Mythic will leave EA on June 23, 2009. We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward. Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.

Mythic retains a strong team led by Rob who co-founded Mythic in 1995. Rob played a critical role in the development of Dark Age of Camelot. In his previous role as COO, he was responsible for all day-to-day management of the studio including all development, operations and support.

Please join us in celebrating the union of these two award-winning studios.

[OmegaFenix]

WOW! Im not too familiar with Mythic but I know Bioware. This should be good.

[Dohc-WP]

The usual ! EA FUggin up legendary dev companies ! they killed westwood, they killed the team behind the original 5 nfs games im sure brad gour still lurks around there unattached to anything nfs relates, next we gonna hear ea is reshuffling dice, then criterion etc. I HATE THE FOOLS in charge of EA yes even PETER MOORE since he left ms for that freakin company

[Necuno]

WOW! Im not too familiar with Mythic but I know Bioware. This should be good.

mythic == Dark age of camelot, Ultima Online and Warhammer

maybe an obvious move to easify kotor mmo ?

[OmegaFenix]

mythic == Dark age of camelot, Ultima Online and Warhammer

maybe an obvious move to easify kotor mmo ?

OH! Doh! I can be so thick sometimes. Just now when u said Warhammer i remembered. Homeworld. Brilliant move then. And like you said its probably to easify the Kotor MMO as im sure thats going to be a big job.

[OmegaFenix]

The usual ! EA FUggin up legendary dev companies ! they killed westwood, they killed the team behind the original 5 nfs games im sure brad gour still lurks around there unattached to anything nfs relates, next we gonna hear ea is reshuffling dice, then criterion etc. I HATE THE FOOLS in charge of EA yes even PETER MOORE since he left ms for that freakin company

Bioware is parented by EA and their games are ok. I doubt Dice will have themselfs reshuffled. They are bringing in too much $ to EA with the BF titles.

[Dohc-WP]

Bioware is parented by EA and their games are ok. I doubt Dice will have themselfs reshuffled. They are bringing in too much $ to EA with the BF titles.

Blackbox is also parented by ea and look at how ea is slowly dismantling them, westwood studios was one of the best companies that made rts game, ea went and screwed them up also, im surprised criterion is still standing as it is

[Stefan9]

I don't trust EA but I trust BioWare and Dr Ray and Gregg and since they are in charge of those divisions things should turn out ok.

[Solitude]

I got to agree with Stefan9. With Bioware being in control things should work out alright even if it's all headed by EA.