Comments on: EA to buy Mythic http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/06/20/ea-to-buy-mythic/ A blog on virtual worlds, games, and digital content, from Matt Mihaly Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:51:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: The Forge · Text MUD Developers Acquired http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/06/20/ea-to-buy-mythic/#comment-534 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:46:21 +0000 http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/06/20/ea-to-buy-mythic/#comment-534 [...] Ok, well, that headline is a bit misleading, but two companies that were recently bought out, Mythic Entertainment and World’s Apart Productions, both got their start making text MUDs. EA bought Mythic, of course, and now comes the announcement that SOE has bought World’s Apart. Scott Martins, formerly CEO/founder of World’s Apart, is someone I count as an (admittedly distant) friend and Mark Jacobs (Mythic’s former CEO) is one of my top five most admired people in the games industry (though he and I strongly disagree on the subject of virtual asset sales). [...] […] Ok, well, that headline is a bit misleading, but two companies that were recently bought out, Mythic Entertainment and World’s Apart Productions, both got their start making text MUDs. EA bought Mythic, of course, and now comes the announcement that SOE has bought World’s Apart. Scott Martins, formerly CEO/founder of World’s Apart, is someone I count as an (admittedly distant) friend and Mark Jacobs (Mythic’s former CEO) is one of my top five most admired people in the games industry (though he and I strongly disagree on the subject of virtual asset sales). […]

]]> by: damijin http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/06/20/ea-to-buy-mythic/#comment-109 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:04:30 +0000 http://forge.ironrealms.com/2006/06/20/ea-to-buy-mythic/#comment-109 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. 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.

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