In the latest attempt to save development studios from their own failed projects, the Warhammer Online team today announced that Mythic will be merging into RPG powerhouse Bioware to create an EA mega-studio focusing on RPGs and MMOs.  Strange news considering that the philosophy at EA of late has been "let the studios keep their identities," but not so strange when you consider Mythic has just lost its leader with the loss of co-founder Mark Jacobs.  With Jacobs moving on to greener and less PvP-invested pastures, Mythic is still a studio living in the glory of DAoC.  Sure, there's WAR, but anyone can see that WAR is little more than a DAoC update at its core.  

Ultimately I take this as a sign that EA is attempting to give the weaker Mythic team some strong leadership.  Bioware has already proved they can create huge market share with a challenging genre.  Now it's time they teach Mythic a thing or two.  I'm hoping this merge will mean good things for future projects.  Now we just need to figure out what to call this new Voltron-esque studio.  I vote for Biothic.

 

 

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SlashNoob

In my opinion this can only be a good thing. Everything BioWare touches seems to turn to gold, so why not put them in charge of everything?

Perhaps this will be the pick me up, Warhammer needs to get back into competition with WoW?

Celkie

I must say that out of all the MMO's I've tried other than WoW, Warhammer was my favourite. I have a friend that plays regularly though and he seems disappointed in it lately, which is a shame.

Bioware is the company that got me into RPG games in the first place (yay NwN), so hopefully they can breathe some life into WAR and make it as great as it potentially can be.

Final note: Biothic sounds way better than Mythware.

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