Electronic Arts Acquires Mythic Entertainment

EA is set to acquire Mythic Entertainment and turn it into a subsection cranking out only MMORPGs.

This is near to my experience as an ex-Origin employee, which was the first MMORPG company to be bought by EA. I was there right after the acquisition. Overall the experience left a lot of people laid off, a lot of false promises, canceled projects just prior to completion (UO2), and general stagnancy of creativity.

Ah well, DAoC was fun while it lasted. It definitely had the most interesting PVP in any MMORPG to date. Their ill-fated pseudo-Rome game sounded interesting but never really picked up steam before it got shelved for the Warhammer project.

Now Mythic will be relegated to over-hyping games that are never really completed, rushed to ship, and not supported much after release. Not pretty.