Mark Jacobs Talks About the Mythic/EA Merger 14
Grimwell writes "Mark Jacobs (VP EA) joined a discussion in our forums and shared his personal thoughts about the Mythic/EA merger:
'Another thing that has almost brought a smile to my face is that they are willing to embrace new IP that is not just WoW 2007 but IP that can stand on its own two (or three) feet without having to rely on the WoW userbase for its success.' Included in his hopeful thoughts was a healthy dose of realism: 'As always, I expect people to believe it when they see it.'"
Enter the first Massive On-Line sports game (Score:1)
Re:Enter the first Massive On-Line sports game (Score:2)
Seriously, in most MMORPGs your ping is never anywhere NEAR low enough to achieve the kind of reaction times needed to be truly on the competitive edge of human capability. Have you ever played a FPS with a 200 ping? Yea, that's only a fifth of a second, I know. But that can be the entire duration of some battles in games like Counterstrike.
TLF
Re:Enter the first Massive On-Line sports game (Score:1)
christ, I still remember the days where you didn't even have a ping, back playing Duke3D over 14.4k modem. .
I call bs on you!
Re:Enter the first Massive On-Line sports game (Score:2)
Wolfenstein was my first. I then went to Doom over modem. That was like a whole new realm of video games. Then came QTest. It was revolutionary. I was hooked and played Quake deathmatch until my eyes bled.
One thing I remember about the old-school Quake matches was there was no net prediction code. When you pressed move forward you literally didn't move forward until the command went from you, to the server, then back to you to. Whatever your ping was, you could
Re:Enter the first Massive On-Line sports game (Score:1)
Re:All games should be open source (Score:1)
People make games to make money. Remove that incentive, and most developers will move on to other more productive enterprises. Or they'll go back to showing off their l33t
Open source works best when copying ... (Score:2)
World of Sports gambling (Score:2)
Variationon an Old IBMJoke (Score:5, Funny)
A: EA
New cash cow (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, the irony (Score:3, Insightful)
But there was a time, when the industry was young enough to not even be properly called an industry, that a group of dedicated programmers got together to form a company with the sole purpose of taking excellence in games to a new level. That company was Electronic Arts, and they revolutionised the computer gaming world, to begin with.
Sigh. All good things eventually die or become evil.