brokentoys.org - 6/25/2009
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So now that I’m home and can look up from wikis and playtests, some reflection on part of today’s news.
It’s probably no secret that Mark Jacobs and I have had our differences in the past – in particular, after some of my more critical writings about Mythic and ...
massively.com - 6/24/2009
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massively.com —
Mythic employees were surprised by their boss' departure,
sources told me today. I spoke with a former
employee, who asked to remain anonymous, about what they and their old co-workers thought regarding today's announcement that Mark Jacobs, ...
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Mythic employees shocked at Mark Jacobs' departure
massively.com - 6/25/2009
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massively.com —
Mark Jacobs , the former General Manager of
Mythic Entertainment and Lead Designer of Warhammer Online ,
has left EA on 23rd June, the company announced today. This comes as part of restructuring plans within EA which includes both Mythic and ...
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Mythic's Mark Jacobs leaves EA
keenandgraev.com - 6/25/2009
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keenandgraev.com —
What the …. is going on? “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 ...
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uhhh.. WTF? EA restructures their RPG/MMO group…
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Mythic + BioWare restructuring
NecroRogIcon —
... EA has reorganized Mythic and BioWare and kinda / sorta / maybe merged them. In name at least, they’ll remain separate but basically the gist of it is that the two docs at BioWare are in charge and Mark Jacobs gets flicked off the gameboard. If you want the more complete description + commentary I recommend reading Lum’s take and ...
Daily Blogroll 6/25 — A Valiant Effort edition
West Karana —
... Heartless_ said he knew it all along (I guess he did!). Ardwulf wonders if this means Mythic will be getting some Bioware resources (don’t count on it). Tobold suspects the merge came because Warhammer did not meet the goals Jacobs promised. Stropps agrees. Abalieno at Cesspit would have preferred this ended differently, with more learning and caring. Werit detects an air of schadenfreud among some of the commentators. And Scott Jennings reminisces about Mark and happier days at Mythic.
I don’t know anything about ...
Good Luck To Mark Jacobs, Mythic
MMOG Nation —
... Entertainment this week. His departure marks the end of an era for the company , something Scott Jennings does a great job of discussing over at Broken Toys. An unnamed source that spoke to Massively’s Tracey John (so cool to be able to say that) noted that the departure was ...
Shut Up We’re Talking #50
The Ancient Gaming Noob —
... to the spotlight. Jonathan has a cathartic rant about the latter while I generalize about the former, referencing an excellent Scott Jennings post. ...
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