Mythic becomes BioWare Mythic

By Oli Welsh Published 2 July, 2010

Assimilation is complete.

Warhammer Online developer Mythic Entertainment has had its name changed again - to BioWare Mythic.

According to Joystiq, the name's been used internally for some time, although it was never formally announced.

The name change reflects owner EA's merger of the massively multiplayer specialist with its flagship role-playing studio BioWare to form an RPG/MMO group a year ago.

Mythic founder Mark Jacobs left at that time, with BioWare's Ray Muzyka taking ultimate responsibility for both studios.

Mythic is used to this sort of thing, having been renamed EA Mythic when it was bought by the publisher, before changing back to its original Mythic Entertainment for a spell.

As of Tuesday this week, Mythic took over the operation of Warhammer Online in Europe from former contractor GOA. It also runs veteran MMOs Dark Age of Camelot and Ultima Online.

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  • ChthonicEcho #1 2 years ago

    Although I'm by far not a Star Wars fan, I am very curious how Star Wars: The Old Republic will turn out. BioWare makes stellar RPGs, in my opinion, and I'm very intrigued whether the same applies to an MMO of theirs. If it does, they might invigorate Warhammer.

  • levitate #2 2 years ago

    Warhammer Online has been on a slippery slope ever since release. I bought it back then and played a month but it didn't grip me and they have to do some miracle work for me to ever return.

  • Spekingur #3 2 years ago

    I'll bet that the next news will be that WAR has gone F2P.

    Oh, and SWTOR? It just looks bad (judging from gameplay videos). Should've used the Mass Effect graphics engine and create something awesomely Star Wars from that. At least then it could look close to the CG trailers they have released.

  • linksdad #4 2 years ago

    Good for Mythic, bad for Bioware.

  • Shakey_Jake33 #5 2 years ago

    @Spekingur - They took the 'stylised' approach with The Old Republic because they want to keep the system requirements relatively low. After all, an MMO relies on a sizable install base for it's income.

    Also, both Mass Effect games use Unreal Engine 3. Is this suitable for an MMO?

  • Gastrian #6 2 years ago

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  • sneetch #7 2 years ago

    @ChthonicEcho
    Although I'm by far not a Star Wars fan, I am very curious how Star Wars: The Old Republic will turn out. BioWare makes stellar RPGs, in my opinion, and I'm very intrigued whether the same applies to an MMO of theirs. If it does, they might invigorate Warhammer.

    Well, BioWare have been in charge of Mythic for months this is just making it official. I'd love to see Warhammer Online swing it around, I loved the game for a while but the ORVR just died in the end, I was playing T3 a lot and people on both Chaos and Order seemed to be determined to avoid actual combat. Scenarios were still fun.

    If it goes Free to Play I'll gladly go back though and pay for... shoes... or whatever the micro-transactions are for. ;)

  • makeamazing #8 2 years ago

    I really liked the frst couple of areas in WO, then suddenly i was getting missions in an area where there was no hope of killing anyone and doing the missions. Then i gave up. Went back once more to give it another go... but perhaps it was just me doing the wrong thing or the game wasnt clear enough in its intentions..

    Still i am looking forward to WH40K.

  • nosajuk #9 2 years ago

    BioWare + Mythic = Mass Effect Online (wishful thinking LOL)

  • Distributor #10 2 years ago

    Its better to not let "Mythic" people touch anymore valuable IPs!!!!!!

  • Serai #11 2 years ago

    BioWare Mythic = Mass Effect Online (wishful thinking LOL)
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    Dont joke about such things... :(