EA kauft Mythic Entertainment

[Wamboland]

Gestern wurde der kauf bestätigt. Das Gerücht machte ja schon seit Februar die Runde, wurde zu dem Zeitpunkt aber noch dementiert.

Gerüchte haben einen Betrag von ca. 70 Mio. $ in Umlauf gebracht, ob es stimmt. Keine Ahnung *g*

Damit wird Warhammer Online wirklich zu einem WoW Konkurenten, da nun auch ein Publisher mit den erforderlichen Ressourcen im Bereich Marketing und Vertrieb hinter dem Projekt steht.

In wie weit sich dies nun auf Warhammer Online oder auch auf Dark Age of Camelot auswirklen wird ist noch unklar. Laut Mythic soll sich aber nichts ändern ausser dem Namen der Firma. ... Hoffen soll man ja immer, aber die Geschichte von EA lässt einen eher schlimmes vermuten.

So ist es nicht verwunderlich, das die Stimmung in den DAoC und WAR Foren eher verhalten bis schlecht ist und dort z.T. der Tag des jüngsten Gerichts gepredigt wird.

EA to Acquire Mythic EntertainmentStudio Recognized Worldwide for Top Development Talent, Critically Acclaimed Franchises and Ground-Breaking Online Experiences
Electronic Arts today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Virginia-based Mythic Entertainment®. Upon completion of the acquisition, Mythic Entertainment will become EA Mythic, a wholly-owned studio dedicated to developing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). Mythic is recognized worldwide for revolutionizing the online gaming space with the award-winning Dark Age of Camelot® and is currently developing Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ under license agreement with Games Workshop.
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close during EA's second quarter of fiscal 2007. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Upon completion of the acquisition, Mark Jacobs, the President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Mythic, will become Vice President, General Manager of EA Mythic. Rob Denton, the Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Mythic will assume the role of Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of EA Mythic. Mythic's 175-person development team will remain in Fairfax, Virginia.

"Mythic has always been a leading independent developer in the online space," says Mark Jacobs, CEO and co-founder of Mythic Entertainment. "EA's commitment to the online market as well as its focus on creating games of unsurpassed quality, scope and scale gives us opportunities and resources we could only dream about in the past."

"The addition of Mythic to the EA family reflects our deep commitment to the online gaming market worldwide. Mythic will bring one of the industry's most talented MMORPG teams to EA. Together, we will create games that will introduce MMO players to a whole new level of game play and excitement," said Paul Lee, President, EA Studios.

Quelle: http://www.ea.com/article.jsp?dcr=ea&id=ea_mythic
Pressemeldung:
http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr786.pdf

 

[Danielovitch]

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[Shadow_Man]

http://www.pcgames.de/?menu=0901&s=thread&bid=13&tid=4795021&x=34

Jop, bitte macht dort weiter.