Coming to a Steam near you!

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kotaku.com/theyre-trying-to-put-ultima-online-and-dark-age-of-came-1564175510

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Jeff Skalski posted something yesterday on twitter about it so I popped over and voted for DAoC. I'm not really sure what's up with this move, though. It's an EA published game still, right? Is it not on Origin? And Why would EA allow it to go on Steam? And why does it have to go through Greenlight?

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Mythic Entertainment co-founder Rob Denton and a number of Mythic veterans (including two members of Camelot’s original team!) have formed a new game studio - Broadsword Online Games (http://www.broadsword.com)!

Broadsword Online Games will partner with EA’s Mythic Entertainment to operate, support and develop Dark Age of Camelot on EA’s behalf. Electronic Arts will continue to provide billing and account services through its Origin™ portal. Broadsword and Electronic Arts will work closely together to ensure a bright future for Dark Age of Camelot. For future inquiries and support, you can contact [e-mail].

www.broadsword.com/daoc_producers_letter.html

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Oh, I thought EA was still publishing for them.

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It's kind of hard to say honestly. I mean clearly they got permission to put the game on Steam, so it's not going to be an Origin exclusive.

Maybe they are trying to seperate the game from EA from a branding standpoint?

New name, same old "cool dev guys", fresh start? It's hard to say, especially with the game still having a subscription model (I don't see that lasting at all honestly).

It might be something cool to check out for nostalgia's sake later, but for now this is probably just a "wait and see" for me.