Comments on: EA buys Mythic http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/ Random Comments About Games and Tractors Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:34:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2969 Dave Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:55:56 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2969 When is Dgate coming back Mark? When is Dgate coming back Mark?

]]> By: beafraid.com » all your souls are belong to us? http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2968 beafraid.com » all your souls are belong to us? Mon, 07 May 2007 04:03:47 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2968 [...] a rather decent conversation going on over at Lum’s place on this issue. He, among others, are being rather mum about the whole thing for the moment, but [...] [...] a rather decent conversation going on over at Lum’s place on this issue. He, among others, are being rather mum about the whole thing for the moment, but [...]

]]> By: beafraid.com » all your souls are belong to us? http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2967 beafraid.com » all your souls are belong to us? Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:16:21 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2967 [...] There’s a rather decent conversation going on over at Lum’s place on this issue. He, among others, are being rather mum about the whole thing for the moment, but those of us not constrained by business propriety (or any propriety really) are slinging the hurtful invectives like there’s a 2 for 1 sale on oh-snap. [...] [...] There’s a rather decent conversation going on over at Lum’s place on this issue. He, among others, are being rather mum about the whole thing for the moment, but those of us not constrained by business propriety (or any propriety really) are slinging the hurtful invectives like there’s a 2 for 1 sale on oh-snap. [...]

]]> By: Wanderer http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2966 Wanderer Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:04:55 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2966 What Boanerges said.<br> <br> MBJ, how much did they pay you to hand your people over to the "planned crunch time" crowd? What Boanerges said.

MBJ, how much did they pay you to hand your people over to the “planned crunch time” crowd?

]]> By: Elistor http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2965 Elistor Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:03:01 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2965 Uhh as to the shadowrun thing... I WISH that was true. http://www.e3insider.com/products/?productID=TK7T8OS11C Uhh as to the shadowrun thing… I WISH that was true. http://www.e3insider.com/products/?productID=TK7T8OS11C

]]> By: Trol http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2964 Trol Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:44:02 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2964 I had some friends in the industy inquire about the Shadowrun License as well. Microshaft said they hold the license, don't plan to do anything with it, and will not license it out to any one else. I had some friends in the industy inquire about the Shadowrun License as well. Microshaft said they hold the license, don’t plan to do anything with it, and will not license it out to any one else.

]]> By: Raz http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2963 Raz Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:03:40 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2963 Microsoft was licensing it to EA for the game.<br> <br> Microsoft still owns the rights, and is basically sitting on them and not doing a damn thing with it.<br> <br> Your dream is going to be a -while- in the making.<br> <br> Mine too, but I gave up years ago. Microsoft was licensing it to EA for the game.

Microsoft still owns the rights, and is basically sitting on them and not doing a damn thing with it.

Your dream is going to be a -while- in the making.

Mine too, but I gave up years ago.

]]> By: Ghiest http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2962 Ghiest Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:07:01 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2962 ---<br> A well executed Battletech MMORPG would be awesome. What did that get cancelled? Oh, yeah. EA. By definition, it would not have been well executed. =/<br> ---<br> <br> I got to alpha test the early parts of battletech 3025 and it had some serioulsy good ideas in it ... I still can't fathom why they canned it :(<br> <br> Being a hardcore (and oldschool) mechwarrior/battletech pen/paper/boardgame fan it was my dream come true too ... ah well, didn't they sell on the liscense to Microsoft ? —
A well executed Battletech MMORPG would be awesome. What did that get cancelled? Oh, yeah. EA. By definition, it would not have been well executed. =/
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I got to alpha test the early parts of battletech 3025 and it had some serioulsy good ideas in it … I still can’t fathom why they canned it :(

Being a hardcore (and oldschool) mechwarrior/battletech pen/paper/boardgame fan it was my dream come true too … ah well, didn’t they sell on the liscense to Microsoft ?

]]> By: Boanerges http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2961 Boanerges Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:30:17 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2961 EA, in many ways, is like a good-for-nothing rich man. He looks good, he's rich and all the women of the neighborhood want to be his girl and ride in his shiny car. But when they become his girl they find the ugly side. He yells at them, degrades them, beats them and then moves on. The next girl always believes that the others didn't deserve him. That they didn't understand him. That they will be the one who meets his needs and whom he treats like a queen. And in the end they all wind up battered and broken in the gutter, realizing, far too late, what fools they'd been. And as they yell warnings to the next girl she just shrugs it off as the cycle repeats itself.<br> <br> I would love to believe that Mythic is finally "the one" for EA. That this will be the company/game that wasn't run into the ground. But nobody at Mythic can convince me of that. It's a shame too because I can't think of anyone with anything bad to say about Mythic either. It's not Mythic's credibility in question here, it's EA's commitment. I really, really, really want to believe Mythic can change EA but I fear this is just the latest in a long string of promising companies who saw joining with EA as a way to improve themselves and found that, when they didn't meet EA's titanic goals, they were all dumped in the gutter and their games were shut down and burned in a giant bonfire. There's a history here and it's apparently been ignored.<br> <br> I wish you well, Mark. I truly do. And I hope WAR is everything you and EA hope it will be. Because, if it's not, <a href="http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html" rel="nofollow">this could be Mythic's legacy</a>. EA, in many ways, is like a good-for-nothing rich man. He looks good, he’s rich and all the women of the neighborhood want to be his girl and ride in his shiny car. But when they become his girl they find the ugly side. He yells at them, degrades them, beats them and then moves on. The next girl always believes that the others didn’t deserve him. That they didn’t understand him. That they will be the one who meets his needs and whom he treats like a queen. And in the end they all wind up battered and broken in the gutter, realizing, far too late, what fools they’d been. And as they yell warnings to the next girl she just shrugs it off as the cycle repeats itself.

I would love to believe that Mythic is finally “the one” for EA. That this will be the company/game that wasn’t run into the ground. But nobody at Mythic can convince me of that. It’s a shame too because I can’t think of anyone with anything bad to say about Mythic either. It’s not Mythic’s credibility in question here, it’s EA’s commitment. I really, really, really want to believe Mythic can change EA but I fear this is just the latest in a long string of promising companies who saw joining with EA as a way to improve themselves and found that, when they didn’t meet EA’s titanic goals, they were all dumped in the gutter and their games were shut down and burned in a giant bonfire. There’s a history here and it’s apparently been ignored.

I wish you well, Mark. I truly do. And I hope WAR is everything you and EA hope it will be. Because, if it’s not, this could be Mythic’s legacy.

]]> By: Freakazoid http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/comment-page-2/#comment-2960 Freakazoid Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:33:30 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2006/06/20/ea-buys-mythic/#comment-2960 Mark, of all the things I thought you were, I never figured you to be a ginormous sucker. Other than the horrible ToA expansion and your penchant for screwing over my favorite class and a few others, you have been fairly level-headed. EA must've fired off the biggest line of bullshit in their arsonal to get your company on board.<br> <br> For your company's sake, let's hope EA really will turn things around just for you. I still am interested in WAR, but only because I don't think EA will suddenly revamp your year+ of development to install the typical EQ grind. I could be wrong, though. Mark, of all the things I thought you were, I never figured you to be a ginormous sucker. Other than the horrible ToA expansion and your penchant for screwing over my favorite class and a few others, you have been fairly level-headed. EA must’ve fired off the biggest line of bullshit in their arsonal to get your company on board.

For your company’s sake, let’s hope EA really will turn things around just for you. I still am interested in WAR, but only because I don’t think EA will suddenly revamp your year+ of development to install the typical EQ grind. I could be wrong, though.

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