Adios Amigo
Wow. This is an interesting turn of events.
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 Muzyka, co-founder and General Manager of BioWare. With this change, Ray becomes Group General Manager of the new RPG/MMO studio group. BioWare’s other co-founder, Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer for the new RPG/MMO studio group. Rob Denton will step up as General Manager of Mythic and report to Ray. BioWare’s studios remain unchanged and continue to report to Ray.
Mark Jacobs, co-founder and current General Manager of Mythic, will leave EA on June 23, 2009. We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward. Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.
Mythic retains a strong team led by Rob who co-founded Mythic in 1995. Rob played a critical role in the development of Dark Age of Camelot. In his previous role as COO, he was responsible for all day-to-day management of the studio including all development, operations and support.
Please join us in celebrating the union of these two award-winning studios.
Didn’t Richard Garriott get a similar “thank you” for his contribution to Tabula Rasa? And Brad McQuaid’s “thanks for coming, don’t let the door hit you on the way out” after the launch of Vanguard?
My interpretation, and that’s all it is, my interpretation, is that EA is saying “The guys at Bioware are doing a fantastic job, so we’re going to put them in charge of everything. Rob Denton did an awesome job with DAoC so we’re putting him in charge of Mythic, and let’s see if he can’t fix the debacle that is Warhammer before all our subscribers go and play Champions Online, Aion, or any number of other MMO’s.
Mark, thanks for coming, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”





