In 2006, Electronic Arts (EA) nabbed Mythic Entertainment in an effort to diversify their product output beyond the usual console mix. In a traditional corporate environment, actions such as these are looked upon with scrutiny due to their financial implications. In an entertainment-oriented corporate environment, customer experience holds stock majority – so to speak. Do actions such as these benefit the consumer directly, or do they simply fuel advertisement funding and other business-related functions?

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This week, BioWare Mythic has released Patch 1.4 for their PvP oriented MMO, Warhammer Online. At first glance, we can see that Open RvR has been overhauled to include a brand new capture mechanic in Tiers 2-4. BioWare Mythic reiterates that World PvP is where gameplay should ideally be focused, and where the lore of WAR is set to unfold.

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We’ve been hearing about it for a while, and no doubt it has some former players considering a glorious comeback. Warhammer Online’s Patch 1.3.6 dropped today around noon, and it’s selling point centers around RvR changes. Major player grievances have often stemmed from imbalanced and un-incentivized ORvR (Open Realm vs. Realm) battles, and Mythic hopes to address this with “Against All Odds”.

Against All Odds is a passive buff that is activated upon a faction that is outnumbered by more than 20%. All members of the outnumbered faction that are participating in an RvR Lake battle will receive an increase to Experience, Renown, and Influence proportional to the odds stacked against them. Needless to say, this should encourage more activity on the RvR front – the very essence of Mythic’s vision for PvP.

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The new DAoC patch has gone live, and Bioware Mythic has plenty to show you.  For starters the new UI (user interface) will allow you to upgrade your skill lines without using any mouse clicks.  A new slider bar has been added that will show you what skills are being upgraded, and how many points you will be spending.  Not only that, but styles and spells will now be immediately displayed to the player so that you can make informed decisions in order to build your character to the best of your abilities.  Stuart Zissu; the producer behind Dark Age of Camelot, goes into more detail regarding the new training UI here.

Here are some other major updates to come with the patches release:

·         Bainshee class balance

·         Increased number of displayed buffs

·         Continued dungeon itemization updates

·         Epic Armor upgrades

For more information about the new DAoC patch, click here.  For all other MMO news and info, remember to follow us at mmocrunch.com

With BioWare Mythic offering Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss at the low price of $29.99 USD (including 30 days gametime), efforts are at an all-time high to revitalize this classic game. UO’s “Call to Arms” will feature such festivities as lore-based Live Events, which are slated to bring back several memorable characters from both Ultima and Ultima Online. Players will help drive the story arc as they work together to return the town of Magincia to it’s former glory. Also, new to the UO universe is an exciting PvP Arena feature that will allow players to face-off in 1v1 combat at either of two new arenas.

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Heroes of the lands of Albion, Hibernia, and Midgard should keep their eyes peeled for merchants offering the spoils of war. In particular, the spoils of the Infernal Awakenings event that occurred last month. The Infernal Auction has been announced by Mythic as the next in a long line of planned Live Events. Resourceful salesmen can be seen in areas around each realm, peddling rare goods and soliciting each passerby.

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July has been a busy month at BioWare Mythic. Stuart Zissu (Producer, DAoC), Andy Belford (Community Coordinator, Mythic), and WAR’s very own Producer, Carrie Gouskos will be making their way across the Atlantic to attend GamesCom: Cologne. The team plans to talk about the future of WAR and DAoC at the event, as well as player suggestions and input. Carrie invites fans to keep track of the group’s activities via Twitter as they visit Germany and meet up with players. This will all take place between August 18th and August 22nd. Mythic hasn’t forgotten the States either, as they plan to make an appearance at Games Day in Baltimore. The Warhammer Online development team will be holding a Q&A session at the event, which will be held on August 21st.

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Bioware Mythic has just revealed the new payment options coming to all European Warhammer Online and Dark Age of Camelot players.  Players are told that they will still have the option to purchase game time codes from the EA online store, as well as some new payment methods that may be preferred.  The game time codes will still be sold in 30, 90, and 180 day packages for both Warhammer Online and Dark Age of Camelot.  European players now have the option to set up an automatic billing plan by using a valid Visa, Mastercard, Discovery or American Express card.  Mythic is currently working on a wider selection of European billing options, but in the mean time Mythic will be providing introductory pricing.  This will only stick until they have released their full line-up of billing options.  The current prices have been posted by Mythic and are all in USD with the additional “Added Value Tax”.

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BioWare Mythic has just announced that the transition for all Warhammer Online character and guild data from GOA servers in Europe to their new home servers at Mythic (US) has been completed.

The new servers are exact copies of the previous GOA servers from June 29, 2010.

European players of Warhammer Online will access their account centers now through the main Mythic Accounts website using a “_EUR” suffix, and will also be catered to by a boost in French and German foreign language customer server representatives.

Josh Drescher, a producer at Mythic Entertainment (also known as EA Mythic and BioWare Mythic) who worked on Warhammer Online, was laid off today. This has sparked rumours of it being an indication of Warhammer Online suffering difficulties, or that there is trouble in Mythic’s future. This is coming despite Josh himself remarking that “WAR isn’t dying. The game is better now than ever before and more goodness is on the way.” It may be a simple reaction to the fact that layoffs are generally a sign of economic downsizing, but there are no solid details on how many other Mythic staff were let go, if any.

The full story, such as it is, can be found on Drescher’s Twitter page.