Copied and pasted from Warcry.com forum.
Despite earlier denials by Mark Jacobs, EA is indeed buying Mythic. Yes, EA is really buying Mythic.
So, I expect DAoC to be shutdown within the next 3 months, and Warhammer Online to get cancelled within 6 months.
EA has no F'ing business having anything to do with MMORPG's. Period.
[Update]
Mark Jacobs has a couple of interesting things to say:
I'll leave you will one final bit, we didn't need to do this deal, we chose to do this deal because of what it meant to Mythic today and to our company going forward.
GW has fully blessed this agreement. They are excited about the possibilities for Warhammer going forward.
Maybe because GW has no knowledge of EA's prior track record with MMO's?
Sanya adds some thoughts:
I don't blame MMO players for being nervous, but think about it - we KNOW the history of all previous deals. Only a complete monkey wouldn't have taken that history into account while the contracts were being written.