Warhammer Online's executive producer, Jeff Hickman, has written a letter to the community regarding the recent revelation that around 80 Mythic staff were laid off as part of EA's restructuring.
Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.
I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.
MMO-Play gathered a list of the most disappointing MMO's in the history of gaming.
Kevin from Denkiphile: "The first I’d ever heard of Titan was at the height of my World of Warcraft career, which was also the same time that several games, touted as WoW-killers, came onto the market and failed miserably. It made sense to me at the time that the only thing that could kill WoW was Blizzard themselves, but this also eventually changed with the advent of session-based, microtransaction-supported games like League of Legends. Titan was supposed to revolutionize and revitalize the MMO genre, but it certainly was not the first to crash and burn before its first flight. Here are some MMOs whose ambitions flew them too close to the sun."
If I was a WAR player, I would be slightly worried. Regardless of this guy's assurances.
Good to hear. Layoffs are stressful for everyone invested in a game - whether as a developer or as a player :/
Well after paying £170m for Playfish they are going to need to make savings somewhere.
Owch.. EA are feeling the pinch!
Good news. 80 redundancies seems like quite a major shake-up, though.