Good for Mark Jacobs! Good for the customer though, given EA’s terrible record with MMOs? I don’t know.
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August 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
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June 21st, 2006 at 1:04 pm
damijin
It’s hard to call Mark dumb and say that this was a stupid move. He’s watched close friends and colleagues get sucked up, chewed up, cancelled twice, and spit out by EA.
Clearly they must have gotten their act together, or at least have gotten better at acting, in order to convince Mark that this was a solid deal.
I’m not as worried as I would of been if this had gone down pre-DAoC right after Kesmai had just been destroyed. I really think Mark cares about the company and would not put it in harms way on purpose.