Mythic fights Back!!

A responce from mythic.

I got the Story here.

Mythic: Blizzard is in for a "lengthy battle"
Warhammer Online: Age of
Reckoning has only just begun to compete with World of Warcraft, says Mark
Jacobs, Mythic's CEO, who commented "It's a marathon, not a sprint."


Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Jacobs took issue with comments made
by Paul Sams, Blizzard's COO, that over half of the subscribers who left World
of Warcraft for Warhammer Online had returned, which Mythic's CEO interpreted to
as an accusation Warhammer users were leaving the MMO.


"One thing
about MMOs is that people play multiple games," asserted Jacobs. "That's one of
the reasons I was very surprised by Paul's comments. He knows that people may
play WoW and they'll play WAR and maybe even a third game at the same time."


He added: "Any comment along the lines of 'well if they're in my
game they're not playing in another game,' flies in the face of all research
that's been done among MMO players… The idea that you only play one is really
kind of silly."


When asked if he was confident Warhammer Online
could hold onto its subscribers when World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath
of the Lich King, comes out, Jacobs assuredly claimed that Mythic are well
prepared to fight back with its own content updates.


"We've known
that Blizzard is preparing to launch in November. We just announced some of the
things that will be going in our first major patch… that's one of the ways we're
going to respond."


"This is the beginning of a rather lengthy battle
with the guys at Blizzard," Jacobs explained. "We’re in this space to be
successful and, when you have a competitor that is as successful and important
to the games industry as WoW has been, you don't go into this space unless
you're willing to spend money and spend time and really compete against them."


Jacobs further declared: "It's a marathon, not a sprint. We've got a
lot of stuff going in, not only this fall but then there's spring and then after
that."

Will se what happens.
My money is on Mythic ATM.