Mythic Will Continue Supporting MMOGs, Says Executive
In the wake of news out of Electronic Arts that the company would be laying off 1500 employees by April 2010, including rumors that Mythic in particular was hit hard by this, an executive with the studio has come forward to assure customers of their MMOGs that the company would continue to support their titles as before.
EA Mythic currently supports three titles: Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online. In the case of Warhammer particularly, layoff rumors have suggested that the game would essentially be relegated to "maintenance mode" with no further content being produced.
Nevertheless, Jeff Hickman has released a public response to the concern, promising that all three titles would continue as usual and both future content and patches would be developed as originally planned.
Warhammer has certainly had a rocky launch, failing to be the World of Warcraft killer it set out to be initially. While the development team has made attempts to fix up a lot of the issues that affected the game at its start, it remains to be seen if their latest attempts towards recapturing players with things like their new unlimited free trial will improve their subscriber numbers.
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Posted to MMOs, Miscellany on 13 November 2009
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