Yesterday saw the merging of EA's BioWare and Mythic Entertainment groups while EA has today confirmed Mythic Entertainment's general manager, Mark Jacobs, has indeed left the company.
A spokesperson for EA told IncGamers that Jacobs is "a visionary thinker, and one of the pioneers in online gaming and is, at heart, an entrepreneur.
"We wish him the very best going forward."
We know, from yesterday's item, that EA is "restructuring its RPG and MMO games development," and will be headed by co-founder of BioWare Ray Muzyka, with Rob Denton; successor to Mark Jacobs, taking the reins of Mythic.
Despite ongoing speculation, EA has refused to comment any further on the merger, but whether we're expecting to hear an MMO announcement from EA, whether the economical crisis has started to really hurt developers of larger publishers, or whether there is just really no more need for two developers which work in primarily the same circles; are all things we'll have to wait to find the answers out for.
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BioWare, famed for great RPGs working on their first MMO Star Wars and Mythic with WAR. Joining them together makes no sense for these games? Unless they're leaving WAR to "die" and using Mythics' resources for Star Wars.
Which leaves the last question, what will it do to the new Star Wars MMO. Will it lean towards the way WAR is? I mean, same staff could cause unplanned similarities if they're not careful.
EA has to make a turnaround and make some cash and the only way to do this is to chisel out the bad bits and reinforce the good.
Godspeed Mark Jacobs.
Communicating between the two is of course a good thing. However on "merging" I'm assuming they will share an office and share programmers. Some good will undoubtedly come from it but I fear some bad will come as well.
We'll see.