It's still EA, and they are being run by the same person who killed off Origin, Westwood, and Bullfrog shortly after buying them and promising them the same "oversight" they "promised" Mythic.
I give it less than three years before Mythic is absorbed completely into EA and they shut down WAR after it fails to reach WoW levels of subscriptions. EA wants a WoW killer, and WAR simply won't be it. The only thing that stands a chance of meeting or surpassing WoW is Blizzard's next MMO.
As much as I loved DAOC; Mythic has a serious problem with kowtowing to the players TOO much, which killed the balance in the game where classes kept being changed due to complaints on the official forums (which were at DAOC Vault). Mythic simply doesn't have the discipline that Blizzard does in terms of polish and focus on maintaining the game's integrity over the long run.
An example would be if Mythic were running WoW and enough players went to the forums and whined that Pyroblast should be an instant-cast spell. Mythic would likely change it just to shut up the vocal minority of forum whiners, which would debalance the mage class and cause a domino effect. It happened ALL the time in DAOC.
WAR will likely do a bit better than Age of Conan, only to see a similar drop off a few months after launch and be supported by a very loyal DAOC fanbase who sees this as DAOC2.