Thank you, developers, for giving me so many hours of fun.  I wish you all the best of luck in landing on your feet.  

There's still no official word from Biowaagh.  But now former employees' facebooks pages have lit up with the news.

Then there's this.  http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?s=001d1336d37f976ab4c930939ef80884&p=1961738#post1961738 

I'm going to still stick around.  The game isn't dead, yet.

Almost perfectly timed with my sub running out December 8th.

To quote one of the people in that linked thread:

"No surprises." 

I guess we are the last rats on a sinking ship.

<pulls out a violin>

Read my related response on the DC forums for my opinion,too long winded to repeat here.

So whos up for some CoDMW2 death matches?

so how long before they shut the game down?

this blows I really like this game.

Jesus, how did all of you doom and gloomies escape the Heaven's Gate Cult mass suicide?

Un-sub please, and then quit posting on the forums.

For me, I'll be playing with the 20,000 (arbitrary number pulled from my ass), new players that zerg around at all hours in T1.  If 1/4 of them sub, the game's population is going to be fine for some time to come.

Geez.

/rant off. 

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Ebert wrote:
More importantly. What game is worth playing besides this one? so far I have not found it.

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Ebert wrote:
More importantly. What game is worth playing besides this one? so far I have not found it.

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I've tried to find a suitable replacement for WAR and haven't found one.  So here I remain because it's still fun and it's unique in some ways.  My best hope is that the ftp Tier 1 empire/chaos is just the beginning of a move towards a new, more successful business model for Mythic.  Maybe Biowaagh can learn from Turbine's success with DDO.

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Lyram wrote:

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Ebert wrote:
More importantly. What game is worth playing besides this one? so far I have not found it.

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I've tried to find a suitable replacement for WAR and haven't found one.  So here I remain because it's still fun and it's unique in some ways.  My best hope is that the ftp Tier 1 empire/chaos is just the beginning of a move towards a new, more successful business model for Mythic.  Maybe Biowaagh can learn from Turbine's success with DDO.

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When I quit DDO, the level cap had just been raised to 14, and the game was 10x worse than war is.  I loved the character creation process, and I wish more games had a creation system similar to shadowbane or ddo.  Other than that, the game was bad.

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fourhundred wrote:

 

When I quit DDO, the level cap had just been raised to 14, and the game was 10x worse than war is.  I loved the character creation process, and I wish more games had a creation system similar to shadowbane or ddo.  Other than that, the game was bad.

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ltank wrote:
All that anyone knows is that some people at Mythic got laid off. They don't know how many, who or from what departments. Anything else is pure speculation and if you instantly buy into it without proper proof then your are a gullible fool.

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This we don't know any details  remember mythic has teams working on 3 game.   Do you honestly think WAR would go to maintence mode before UO or DAoC?

It's far from pure speculation.   Mythic was specifically named, and the layoffs were almost 17% of the entire company.  More than 60% of the layoffs were developers.

So, while it's pointless to predict that the game will close, don't put your head in the sand either.  This has a major impact and at a minimum reduces the upside.  Games that don't get attention and support grow slowly at best.  

It'll be around for a long while.  There isn't going to be much competition in the causal pvp mmo market anytime soon.

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Mortt wrote:

 

It's far from pure speculation.   Mythic was specifically named, and the layoffs were almost 17% of the entire company.  More than 60% of the layoffs were developers.

 

So, while it's pointless to predict that the game will close, don't put your head in the sand either.  This has a major impact and at a minimum reduces the upside.  Games that don't get attention and support grow slowly at best.  

 

It'll be around for a long while.  There isn't going to be much competition in the causal pvp mmo market anytime soon.

 

 

 

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I really wish I knew where people get these number. The fact that people actually know percents..... It just wow... Btw how many people does mythic employee and how many were fired... Also how many people are in the dev department.... Since people know the percents it should be easy to give the answer since you have to know the values to be to give percent answers.

The information all comes from EA's press releases and quarterly reports.  The layoffs are reported in Canada and California where the layoffs are a news event.

It's not that hard.