This is pure speculation..

If Mythic for some reason goes bankrupt, who do you think would buy WAR?

For example do you think Blizzard would buy it and use the engine to make some other, better MMO?

And could the new owner legally shut down the servers? I'm asking because I'm worried about my toons, which I spent a lot of time leveling.

Discuss.
 

 No one would buy it because the game and engine is a complete failure. There is not one good part about the game.

Originally posted by Flarinstar

 No one would buy it because the game and engine is a complete failure. There is not one good part about the game.

You need to preface your remarks by saying they are your personal opinion and have no basis in reality.

I play WAR and enjoy it.  To me, neither the game nor the game engine are a failure.  I play every night, and there are always people ingame, and the scenarios are always hotly contested.

The game may be a failure for you, but to a lot of other people, it's not.

Originally posted by ScamMan

This is pure speculation..

If Mythic for some reason goes bankrupt, who do you think would buy WAR?

For example do you think Blizzard would buy it and use the engine to make some other, better MMO?

And could the new owner legally shut down the servers? I'm asking because I'm worried about my toons, which I spent a lot of time leveling.

Discuss.
 

Why do you keep posting these idiotic threads?  While the game still has some problems, they are nowhere near fatal or causing the game to close.  Mythic has been very good at addressing the problems, and I expect to be playing for quiet a while.

And, yes, the owner can shut the game down anytime they want.  Witness Tabula Rasa that will close in February.

Originally posted by Ionselon

Originally posted by ScamMan

This is pure speculation..

If Mythic for some reason goes bankrupt, who do you think would buy WAR?

For example do you think Blizzard would buy it and use the engine to make some other, better MMO?

And could the new owner legally shut down the servers? I'm asking because I'm worried about my toons, which I spent a lot of time leveling.

Discuss.
 

 

Why do you keep posting these idiotic threads?  While the game still has some problems, they are nowhere near fatal or causing the game to close.  Mythic has been very good at addressing the problems, and I expect to be playing for quiet a while.

And, yes, the owner can shut the game down anytime they want.  Witness Tabula Rasa that will close in February.

 

Hold on there.. Idiotic? I think there is a reason to be concerned when stuff like this start to happen.

www.joystiq.com/2009/01/19/rumor-mythic-layoffs-affect-qa-customer-support/

Originally posted by ScamMan

Originally posted by Ionselon

Originally posted by ScamMan

This is pure speculation..

If Mythic for some reason goes bankrupt, who do you think would buy WAR?

For example do you think Blizzard would buy it and use the engine to make some other, better MMO?

And could the new owner legally shut down the servers? I'm asking because I'm worried about my toons, which I spent a lot of time leveling.

Discuss.
 

 

Why do you keep posting these idiotic threads?  While the game still has some problems, they are nowhere near fatal or causing the game to close.  Mythic has been very good at addressing the problems, and I expect to be playing for quiet a while.

And, yes, the owner can shut the game down anytime they want.  Witness Tabula Rasa that will close in February.

 

 

Hold on there.. Idiotic? I think there is a reason to be concerned when stuff like this start to happen.

www.joystiq.com/2009/01/19/rumor-mythic-layoffs-affect-qa-customer-support/

You realize you are not going to make AOC look good by posting crap in the forums of other games.  EA/Mythic is a huge company and has 1000's of employees.  It's not some no-name company from Norway  with no other titles.

EA might shut WAR down if it proves to be unprofitable, they've done so before.

But no one will ever be buying out WAR, if it folds it will be gone for good.

And Blizzard has absolutely no reason to buy anyone elses hand me down games.  They've got more than enough resources to develop their own in their own style from the ground up.

Simple Answer: No One.

Well besides the fact that Mythic is a very well run company and was doing fine on there own and why EA bought them. If Mythic were to close EA might as well give up on MMO's. I would say another publisher would take them if they could there past  sucess leads you to belive they will be in the future.

No one would buy the company  for the game engine thats useless pretty fast. but the company itself has some worth.

All this is a moot point tho as im playing new toons im seeing a pretty constant influx of new players asking annoying newb questions id say its growing.

i bet GW wishes Mythic would go bankrupt after what they have done with this title. to me its a waste of a good IP, there is so much to the warhammer universe and mythic turns it into a frag fest with no depth.

I wish a smart company would have gotten the rights. so that while the game could still be focused on PVP, it wouldn't become a dumbed down frag fest only. maybe the game would actually to other types of playstyles besides those that want to jump in melt faces and log off.

Originally posted by humwha

Well besides the fact that Mythic is a very well run company and was doing fine on there own and why EA bought them. If Mythic were to close EA might as well give up on MMO's. I would say another publisher would take them if they could there past  sucess leads you to belive they will be in the future.

No one would buy the company  for the game engine thats useless pretty fast. but the company itself has some worth.

All this is a moot point tho as im playing new toons im seeing a pretty constant influx of new players asking annoying newb questions id say its growing.

O_o

If Mythic was "doing fine on their own" then there would have been no reason whatsoever to sell the company, especially with a potential hit (at the time) like WAR on their hands. They ran out of money to finish the game, pure and simple and purely based on my own reasoning and no facts whatsoever.

ScamMan...please go back to the AoC forums.

It suits you much better to be a fanboy than a troll.

Your trolls aren't even that good.

Originally posted by Pheace

Originally posted by humwha

Well besides the fact that Mythic is a very well run company and was doing fine on there own and why EA bought them. If Mythic were to close EA might as well give up on MMO's. I would say another publisher would take them if they could there past  sucess leads you to belive they will be in the future.

No one would buy the company  for the game engine thats useless pretty fast. but the company itself has some worth.

All this is a moot point tho as im playing new toons im seeing a pretty constant influx of new players asking annoying newb questions id say its growing.

If Mythic was "doing fine on their own" then there would have been no reason whatsoever to sell the company, especially with a potential hit (at the time) like WAR on their hands. They ran out of money to finish the game, pure and simple and purely based on my own reasoning and no facts whatsoever.

EA is a company who buys companies, where there is a profit to be gained. This are normaly well running companies and not companies who do not function well to begin with. I mean BioWare (Bulders Gate, Mass Affect) Mythic (DOAC, WAR) and Maxis (Sim City, sims) where companies who where doing good when EA brought them.

EDIT:

Did some looking into this.

Westwood was brought for 122.5 million dollar and controled 5 - 6% of the PC market by that time. I mean that is good. Hope I have manage to change you opinion by actualy presenting fact.

if that would happen, what i doubt, don't think blizzard would ever buy warhammer. they already have their "warhammer" called "warcraft"- that has far more success. the only company with a track record of buying others mmo's is sony, but even that is pushing odds a bit.

Originally posted by Coman

Originally posted by Pheace

Originally posted by humwha

Well besides the fact that Mythic is a very well run company and was doing fine on there own and why EA bought them. If Mythic were to close EA might as well give up on MMO's. I would say another publisher would take them if they could there past  sucess leads you to belive they will be in the future.

No one would buy the company  for the game engine thats useless pretty fast. but the company itself has some worth.

All this is a moot point tho as im playing new toons im seeing a pretty constant influx of new players asking annoying newb questions id say its growing.

If Mythic was "doing fine on their own" then there would have been no reason whatsoever to sell the company, especially with a potential hit (at the time) like WAR on their hands. They ran out of money to finish the game, pure and simple and purely based on my own reasoning and no facts whatsoever.

EA is a company who buys companies, where there is a profit to be gained. This are normaly well running companies and not companies who do not function well to begin with. I mean BioWare (Bulders Gate, Mass Affect) Mythic (DOAC, WAR) and Maxis (Sim City, sims) where companies who where doing good when EA brought them.

EDIT:

Did some looking into this.

Westwood was brought for 122.5 million dollar and controled 5 - 6% of the PC market by that time. I mean that is good. Hope I have manage to change you opinion by actualy presenting fact.

Not really, having a certain market percentage does not mean your company can't be in trouble. I'll agree sometimes successful companies are bought up. But then again not usually if they have a potential blockbuster (err game version of that lol) on their hands.

I have flashes of MJ talking about how the funds EA could put into the game allowed them to spend more time on things etc but I can't seem to find them(probably on the Vnboards somewhere  >.<). Considering the state of the game *after* a year extended release(opinions differ but I think most can agree it could have used some more time in a few areas) I personally don't think they would have had the resources to make the game halfway decent if they hadn't had  EA's backing, therefor to me that = "in trouble" :)

All speculation of course but that's fun to do ^^

What a useless thread...

Well if all this happens in which the way the economy is going who knows at the end of the day, the only MMO left might be WOW, and their subscription county might hit 20 millions. Be careful what you wish for :P

If WAR were to do badly enough that EA or Mythic decided to cut it loose, what happens would depend on a whole lot of legal mumbo that no one here is privy to. Never forget that GW owns the IP and I am sure attached some mighty tough strings to it when they signed on.

Aside from that, EA is unlikely to cut Mythic loose unless EA closes up shop totally. Mythic is a solid studio with lots of other potential uses.

If (and its a pretty big if) WAR is doing badly enough in 12-18months that it is in danger of closing, a likely possible outcome would be GW reacquiring control and dumping it on that THQ-spinoff which is working on the 40K MMO and whoever they are distributing through...but something like that is a really really long odds bet.

Likeliest, WAR is doing "okay", enough happy subs to keep the lights on and keep the checks from bouncing for the next 2 years+, probably longer...it eventually gets shuffled to the backseat when Mythic moves to a new project.

WAR uses the Unreal grapic engine...so it's not theirs to sell :)

And by the way, please move on...to the Darkfall forums and troll them for abit.

I'll go back to playing WAR with my growing and prosperous guild.

IJJI/aeriagames. Both seem to buy failing MMO's xD