[Official] Warhammer Online

[Kanoxia]

Any chance i could get a Friend invite? Wouldnt mind trying this but dont want to shell out for a subscription. PM me if you can.

[Spookie]

Lots of bug fixes but still doesn't fix:

- Boring RvR

- Same keeps through out the zones/No destructible keep walls

- Response lag (this downright pushed away any subscribers coming from WoW)

- Performance server side/local

- Dire siege weapons

- Some classes are beyond useless

- Excessive CC

I know mythic made DAoC and I loved that but how you can then go out and produce WAR afterwards, with all it's flaws they had fixed in their previous game, is beyond me. I sadly trusted them and wasted money on the collectors edition and though they would pump out patches at the speed they did in beta.

Obviously not. Until those issues are fixed WAR will never gain subscribers. You though WoW raiding was boring? Wait till you see WARs keeps! :/

[Viper217]

Hi all, I stopped my subscription to WAR in October due to time constraints, but a friend of mine just asked if I had a trial account pass for him. I told him the game didn't come with any by itself and the trials are limited to active subscribers, but I told him I'd ask around for him. I know its prob a long shot but if anyone has an extra trial pass could they PM me and ill give the friends email for the trial? thanks either way and hope to maybe be back in the game this summer!

[killmaster84]

How is the new content? I'm thinking of getting back in once again.

[trag3dy]

How is the new content? I'm thinking of getting back in once again.

All I've done is the scenario a few times. It's pretty fun, interesting sort of capture the flag and then while you control both "flags" your kills make your score go up faster, at least I think that's the purpose of it. I really have no idea of the mechanic behind it is yet. I haven't tried any of the dungeons either though. My highest character is only 23 yet and I don't think they were made for that level range.

The new character professions(I think that's what they're called in this game..I want to keep calling them classes) aren't out until next week if you finished all the event things, and the week after if you didn't. I finished mine...can't wait until next week so I can make my Choppa. I got the perfect name for him picked out.

Edit: Oh yes... I dropped WoW to play this game with a friend and I love it. The rvr is so much more fun than pvp in WoW ever was. Not to spread false rumors or anything but they may start doing some serious server reshuffling soon, too. They've already listed 3 servers they're merging and shutting down. This is good news as well. (Y)

[VIVIsectVI]

Anyone still playing? If so, which server(s)?

Just resubbed, after dumping WoW a few weeks ago. Thinking of rolling a shaman, just not sure on the server.

[trag3dy]

I play on Ironfist daily. I wouldn't have responded if you had said you were going to play Order. >.>

Also, a big new patch will be coming out within a couple of weeks hopefully, with lots of improvements to shamans, specifically.

Edited June 2, 2009 by trag3dy

[Grandaevus]

For those requesting trials they are available for all now:

Europe trial

US trial

[trag3dy]

Or they can hit me up for recruit-a-friend trials. >.>

I like free play time.

[(Spork)]

http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warheral...icle.war?id=841

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.

[trag3dy]

Mehhh, this game is going downhill fast. Half the destruction on my server quit in the last two weeks. It's a ghost town. Hopefully that change will be for the good.

[dead.cell]

Yeah, I feel Blizzard is really doing a number on other MMO's these day. It's a shame too, since I really did like WAR. :(

Oh wells, I have an 80 now, and have a wonderful bunch of people in my guild so... I'm happy! :p

[twist]

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.

best news warhammer has had since launch, almost makes me want to pick it up again since he won't be around to completely screw things up.

[trag3dy]

best news warhammer has had since launch, almost makes me want to pick it up again since he won't be around to completely screw things up.

You better wait a while before you do that. The shape the game is in right now..well..lets just say you have to be a really patient person to be able to get any enjoyment out of playing the game.

[:: Lyon ::]

I've already unsubscribed :( There's not many people playing and 2 of my friends who do, their levels are already way above me

[Minifig]

I never had a pc that could really run it before, so I'm going to give the 10 day free trial a shot.

I'm already 19% patching. .. So Slow. :(

[trag3dy]

Mythic is merging servers in this game again for the second time in less than a month. What they need to do is let people switch between any server they want but have a cool down on how often they can switch, 2 weeks to a month, or whatever is appropriate. At any rate...I had high hopes for this game and it was really fun, but it's dieing a slow tortured death. It's only a matter of time now.

[dead.cell]

Updating the official thread, as I've recently updated my client for this game. At 4AM, I was amazed to see 10+ people in the starting area completing public quests and such, as well as playing their roles well enough. Disregard the fact that we were level 3ish damnit, we were having fun!

Seriously, I've got to hand it to Mythic. These guys have to be one of the most dedicated teams I've seen, dropping plenty of time and effort into dozens of patches. While I didn't get to play too much tonight (it's about to be 6AM!!), I can certainly say I'm giddy about jumping on tomorrow.

Playing destro on Volkmar. Can get 10 days of free playtime if you've had an account before. Beware though, as your characters may not be available if they were on a server that's been dropped. You get free transfers for those characters though to a realm of your choice, and it only takes a second.

Just thought I'd toss that out there, for anyone in my shoes who can't stand getting on WoW anymore currently. Hell, Icecrown alone makes me want to vomit... :no: :x

[Guest]

Updating the official thread, as I've recently updated my client for this game. At 4AM, I was amazed to see 10+ people in the starting area completing public quests and such, as well as playing their roles well enough. Disregard the fact that we were level 3ish damnit, we were having fun!

Seriously, I've got to hand it to Mythic. These guys have to be one of the most dedicated teams I've seen, dropping plenty of time and effort into dozens of patches. While I didn't get to play too much tonight (it's about to be 6AM!!), I can certainly say I'm giddy about jumping on tomorrow.

Playing destro on Volkmar. Can get 10 days of free playtime if you've had an account before. Beware though, as your characters may not be available if they were on a server that's been dropped. You get free transfers for those characters though to a realm of your choice, and it only takes a second.

Just thought I'd toss that out there, for anyone in my shoes who can't stand getting on WoW anymore currently. Hell, Icecrown alone makes me want to vomit... :no: :x

Where can I get those 10 free days?

[nubs]

I played this game for a few months when it first came out. It was good fun but it didn't have the staying power that wow does. It would have been better if the crafting skills were more like what they advertised. I remember them talking about how you would be able to create items by trial and error. And that the most powerful items would be player created. At release this was nowhere near the reality. It also didn't seem like there was much of a reason to hold keeps. It just felt like a lot of the pvp was just haphazardly added on late in the game development which is crazy because its all about pvp.

[dead.cell]

Where can I get those 10 free days?

If you already have an account, just log into it, view the game account you want to activate, and click... "Activate" or "Update" I believe. I think you might have to enter your credit card like you're going to subscribe, but you can just cancel it immediately afterwards to prevent being charged anything. You should have the 10-days listed on the account overview.

If you DON'T have an account, then you can just sign up for the free trial. There's no time limit, just some trial restrictions and you can only get to level 10.

http://www.warhammeronline.com/

I played this game for a few months when it first came out. It was good fun but it didn't have the staying power that wow does. It would have been better if the crafting skills were more like what they advertised. I remember them talking about how you would be able to create items by trial and error. And that the most powerful items would be player created. At release this was nowhere near the reality. It also didn't seem like there was much of a reason to hold keeps. It just felt like a lot of the pvp was just haphazardly added on late in the game development which is crazy because its all about pvp.

Wow, I played like... back in May/June. There have been plenty of changes since I've played though, and no doubt an absolute megaton since you did lol. I really liked their PvP to be honest.

In fact, the only reason I stopped playing it was because friends wanted me to come play WoW with them, lol. I've got to say that even though the similarities it has with WoW, it had a lot of things WoW didn't at the beginning. Queuing for a BG anywhere, built in (and very nice) quest helper, very very customizable UI, and such. Only thing I had a problem with was the way the elf characters looked, and the collision detection when jumping on things like boulders and such. Even then though, their unstick command is better than many other games I see with it. Simply throws you 3 feet onto proper terrain instead of tossing you off to where you last saved yourself or the nearest town. (Thank you very much, Aion / WoW...)

I dunno. Maybe I'll get bored with it in the future, but at this point, there's no doubt how bored I am of WoW. I can't really blame Blizzard I suppose. The game is just very stale for me. I hate dailies, weeklies, the heroics, etc. Even re-rolling got stale once I hit northrend. (stuck with 71 mage, 73 paladin) In the meantime, I have plenty of time to get tired of Warhammer before Cataclysm comes out. :)

Oh, and I don't mean to hype this up too much for you people. I'm just giddy as I'm having a lot of fun. :blush:

[LOC Veteran]

Sweet, got my 10 days. Gonna try to hit max level and do some real RvR! :)

[dead.cell]

So the other day, it was 5:30AM... I was in one of those RvR areas (not a battleground, but just a pvp zone) and was amazed as there was a heated 15 on 15 (roughly anyway) battle going on in Tier 1. I'm not sure whether I'm surprised that there were that many people in a lowbie zone or that there were that many people on at that time. :p

Got into a guild last night too, after the leader gave me some awesome set boots and asked me to join. (hate guild invites without asking) I had never been in a guild before, but was amazed to see guild ranks with a sort of talent point system and all.

Woo, still giddy as hell. Those looking to join destruction, hop on Volkmar. Great server. :)

I'll definitely shut up from here on out at least, as to not annoy.

[killmaster84]

Why did I read this >_< Makes me want to get back into the game. Miss the guild, although by now I am long forgotten.

[dead.cell]

Playing the game recently, I got somewhat sad thinking that it may die soon enough.

Of course, I'm now pleased to have heard that the game isn't over yet!

BioWare talks Warhammer Online's forthcoming expansions

In a recent GDC 2010 interview with UGO, BioWare's Dr. Ray Muzyka said of Warhammer Online, "Right now it's [a] really profitable business unit within my group." Muzyka went on to say they've actually seen more people come into the game since enacting the free-to-play model on the game's earlier levels, and that he personally felt they were working.

In fact, by the sounds of it, Warhammer Online is due for some interesting announcements in the future. Another of Muzyka's comments on the title was, "We have new content planned and all kinds of cool expansions for it." We don't know how much more clear cut a message can be than that. And hey, it's good news! We're looking forward to our playable Skaven and Lizardmen, Mythic and BioWare.

Good new indeed! :D