Story driven MMOs
Friday, August 21st, 2009
I recently received an email from one of my readers, Gareld, that really gave me the opportunity to think about why we play MMOs. It also so happens that this topic has been under quite a bit of discussion due to Bioware’s impending “The Old Republic” and 38 Studio’s Copernicus Project. Gerald basically indicated that we tend to play MMOs for the story and the engagement and not just for raw numbers. It was an interesting point.
Now, what really interests us when we are playing an MMO? The story behind the MMO. If playing an MMO was all about numbers we would (more…)
EA merges Mythic and Bioware
Sunday, June 28th, 2009BioWare and Mythic’s RPG teams are now one and the same, in the eyes of Electronic Arts. The publisher has restructured the design of their RPG and MMO group, putting Ray Muzyka, co-founder and general manage of BioWare, at the helm. Marc Jacobs, current general manager at Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, left the company as of yesterday. (Edited: Yesterday as of the writting of this article. -Ferrel)
“We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward,” the company said in a statement on the official Warhammer web site. “Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.”
Muzyka, whose studio is currently developing (more…)
