{"id":6277,"date":"2009-06-25T17:16:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6277"},"modified":"2013-05-28T19:59:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T02:59:13","slug":"jacobs-out-at-mythic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/jacobs-out-at-mythic\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobs Out at Mythic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8736\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8736\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8736\" alt=\"Mythic chief Mark Jacobs has stepped down.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/markjacobs-S.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"308\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mythic chief Mark Jacobs has stepped down.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>JUNE 25, 2009 \u2022 Electronic Arts combined its Bioware and Mythic divisions into one MMO group. Management of day-to-day operations of the new group will be vested in Bioware executives, with long-time Mythic chief Mark Jacobs stepping down and leaving the company. In the days following, it was announced that Mythic staff would assist on Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: MMOs are a massive undertaking with a high risk\/high reward payoff.\u00a0 It is hard to know the internal reasons for this new structure, but our biggest question is was this 1) a pure cost saving initiative or 2) a way to obtain synergy so that Bioware can gain access to Mythic&#8217;s considerable experience in developing, launching and operating a high-end MMO.\u00a0 Obviously we hope the answer is the latter.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 25, 2009 \u2022 Electronic Arts combined its Bioware and Mythic divisions into one MMO group. Management of day-to-day operations of the new group will be vested in Bioware executives, with long-time Mythic chief Mark Jacobs stepping down and leaving the company. In the days following, it was announced that Mythic staff would assist on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}