Mark Jacobs' Friendly Farewell Letter
Despite the relative hugeness of yesterday's reveal that EA will be merging BioWare and Mythic into one group, paired with the departure of Mythic co-founder Mark Jacobs, the whole affair seems to be proceeding with a minimum of fuss and an absence of ill will. Especially considering Jacobs' willingness to speak his mind.
Today, on his personal blog, Mark Jacobs bid farewell to his staff and to the amount of personal effort he's put into his games (including using his own pocket money to buy phones for the office, back in the day):
Whether it was the extra late night and/or weekend efforts or simply the passion so many of you showed for our games, your level of commitment is something I will never forget... I will have a lot more to say about this over the next few weeks and I will try, and I'm sure fail, to adequately express my thanks and deepest gratitude to many of the team members.
I have helped shepherd Mythic through good times and bad, through near bankruptcy and through our many successes... During my tenure there my duties have run the gamut from being CEO/GM to doing some of our legal work to acting as lead designer and even using my personal credit cards/credit to pay for the phones we used when we launched DAoC back in 2001.
And while Jacobs does say he'll be back with more to say, he didn't show any rancor toward his former corporate overlords at EA:
As always EA has my thanks for their interest in acquiring Mythic and in supporting the development of Warhammer... Over my 23 years of making games professionally I have refrained from attacking the competition, former and/or current partners, other game developers, etc. except on a few very rare instances. I have no intention of breaking with tradition at the present time.
No word on what the MMO designer and CEO will do next, but we hope it will involve at least a little vitriol at gold sellers, one group that Jacobs has never refrained from attacking. A little hate is good for the digestion.
tiny dancer
Posted to MMOs, Miscellany on 26 June 2009
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