Today we have important news to share with the community. EA is restructuring its RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic and BioWare. This newly formed team will be led by Ray Muzyka, co-founder and General Manager of BioWare. With this change, Ray becomes Group General Manager of the new  RPG/MMO studio group. BioWare’s other co-founder, Greg Zeschuk will become Group Creative Officer for the new RPG/MMO studio group. Rob Denton will step up as General Manager of Mythic and report to Ray. BioWare’s studios remain unchanged and continue to report to Ray.

Mark Jacobs, co-founder and current General Manager of Mythic, will leave EA on June 23, 2009. We thank Mark for his contributions at Mythic and wish him the very best going forward. Mark played a major part in the success of Mythic with his contribution as General Manager and Lead Designer of WAR.

Mythic retains a strong team led by Rob who co-founded Mythic in 1995. Rob played a critical role in the development of Dark Age of Camelot. In his previous role as COO, he was responsible for all day-to-day management of the studio including all development, operations and support.

Please join us in celebrating the union of these two award-winning studios.

Status: All Servers are online. We’ll see you in game!
Greetings!

This
morning (Wednesday, 6/24/09) all North American and Oceanic servers will be brought
offline at 9:00 AM EDT to perform some brief maintenance of our servers.  This down time will also allow us to resolve an issue with a missing ability for Sorcerers.

When the servers come back online, check the timers for access to The Lands of the Dead.  Resource gathering for access to the Lands of the Dead will be turned on once they hit zero.   Gather resources, turn them in to your Expedition Quartermasters and take the battle to your enemies. Players in the Necropolis of Zandri will also be able to gain access to the Tomb of the Vulture Lord at that time.  Good luck to players embarking on this most dangerous of quests!

We anticipate servers to
be online by 11:30 AM EDT. As always stay tuned to the Herald for
information during this and other future downtimes, thank you!

Update 9:55 Am EDT – All NA and Oceanic servers are now online.

Update 9:25 AM EDT – IMPORTANT NOTE: With today’s downtime we have implemented a fix that was preventing the Sorcerer/ess Career from training all abilities properly. As a result of this fix all Sorcerer/ess’ will have their Mastery and Tactic points refunded and will need to visit the Career Trainer to respend these points.

Update: 9:00 AM EDT – All North American and Oceanic servers have been taken offline.

Greetings!

As the Realms who claimed victory in the Rise of the Tomb Kings Live Event make their way across the desolate sands of the Necropolis of Zandri their sworn enemies gather there forces and prepare to invade and steal their newly plundered treasures.

Today we have the following Hot Fixes for you:

Greetings!

We have the following Hot Fixes for you this evening:

General Changes & Bug Fixes

• Identified and fixed some issues that were adversely affecting server stability.
• Players will no longer receive loot from dead members of their own Realm.

Combat & Careers

Archetype Abilities

• Group Heals: Fixed an issue that was preventing group heals from being used when a member of the player’s party was dead.

Shadow Warrior

• Enchanted Arrows: Fixed a bug that prevented Flame Arrow and Festering Arrow from bypassing resistances.

Items

• Fixed an issue that was preventing Quartermasters from selling all pieces of the Obliterator armor set.

RvR

Battlefield Objectives

• The domination timers on Battlefield Objectives will once again start after the initial three minute capture timer. The Battlefield Objective will become dominated after 30 minutes.

Capital Cities

• Fixed an issue that was causing Arch Lector Zakarai in Sigmar’s Crypts to respawn immediately if he was killed outside of his spawn room.

User Interface

• Fixed an issue that was causing players to display as being in a warband when that warband no longer existed.
• Fixed an issue that was causing players’ backpack and item sorting preferences to reset when the player logged out.

Edit 8:45 PM EDT Corrected date of post

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As the Rise of the Tomb Kings Live Event draws to a close today, we’ve had Dwarfs and Goblins working around the clock, tallying Expedition
Resource Points, and determining the winning Realm on each server. It
was very a close competition, with the lead swapping back and forth
from one Realm to the next several times throughout the duration of the Live Event. The Realm that wins early access to the Land of the Dead
content will have one day of uninterrupted time in the Necropolis of
Zandri (this does not include the Tomb of the Vulture Lord).

When the servers come back up today, the winning Realm will be able to
fly to the Necropolis of Zandri via the Flight Master in their capital
city. Expedition Resources will drop during this early access period, but
you cannot turn them in—they will expire. The early access will end
tomorrow at approximately 10:00 AM EDT, at which point players will be
able to turn in Expedition Resources to the Expedition Resource Quartermasters once again, and control of the
Land of the Dead will be up for grabs!

Without further ado, here are our winners! Congratulations everyone!

• Badlands – Order
• Dark Crag – Order
• Darklands – Destruction
• Gorfang – Destruction
• Iron Rock – Order
• Ironclaw – Destruction
• Ironfist – Order
• Magnus – Order
• Monolith – Destruction
• Ostermark – Order
• Phoenix Throne – Destruction
• Praag – Destruction
• Skull Throne – Order
• Volkmar – Order
• Vortex – Order

Be sure to check out the Land of the Dead FAQ, Land of the Dead Grab Bag, and Game Update 1.3 Grab Bag for more details about the Land of the Dead!