EA Combines BioWare & Mythic Groups, Mark Jacobs Out
A statement on the Warhammer Online Herald announced some pretty big studio news today: EA is combining BioWare and Mythic into a single RPG/MMO group, which will be lead by BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka. BioWare's existing studios will continue to report to Muzyka.
Greg Zeschuk, BioWare's other co-founder, will become the Group Creative Officer, and by mutual agreement, current Mythic GM Mark Jacobs will be leaving EA immediately (the press release, posted today, actually says he'll be leaving yesterday, but if Mark Jacobs can travel back in time they should probably rethink letting him go).
BioWare's studios are said to remain unchanged, so it's unclear if the "union of these two award-winning studios" is an actual union or a more corporate restructuring.
Either way, bon voyage to Mark Jacobs, whose work on WAR - and whose war on gold sellers - will not soon be forgotten.
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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.
tiny dancer
Posted to Hot Stuff, MMOs, Miscellany on 24 June 2009
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Good riddance to Mark Jacobs, he was fired for a reason...and that was for creating the situation WAR is in now with extremely low subs. It could have been such a better game if they were truer to DAOC rather than instanced battlegrounds of WoW =/
*SCRAMBLES FOR NEWS*
Thank feck for that, Paul Barnett is still there. Such a hot guy and English too, so stalking him is just an hour and a half away.