Warhammer Online seeks beta testers
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ May 31st 2007 at 11:31AM }
EA Mythic is starting beta registration today for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The game, which was recently delayed until 2008, will begin an invite-only beta in the relative future. To sign up you just click here or there is more information on the Warhammer site.We've got the nagging suspicion that Warhammer Online is going to follow the same route as Lord of the Rings Online in terms of polish. EA Mythic is holding on to the title for longer than necessary to tweak and get that game to shine when it goes gold. Remember, entering the fantasy MMO market, games can't go in fresh, they have to feel like they've got two years of battle under their belt to compete against World of Warcraft. Where's Tabula Rasa already for those done with fantasy and need an MMO sci-fi fix?
[Via Press Release]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nexas @ May 31st 2007 11:58AM
I tried signing up for this but after validating my email address it kept telling that validation code doesn't match my email address.
Sucks to because as a subscriber to their monthly news letter I have a better chance of getting in.
Anam @ May 31st 2007 11:58AM
Eh... another fantasy-based MMORPG. The most interesting part about this entire article was at the end where you mentioned Tabula Rasa. I'll have to check that out.
sheppy @ May 31st 2007 12:05PM
The worst part is if they went with another era of Warhammer, it wouldn't be just another fantasy MMO.
Obi-Habby @ May 31st 2007 12:20PM
how long did it take for you to get the email back to confirm. Im closing in on 20 mins here.
Hey Apples @ May 31st 2007 12:22PM
Ahh good, Mythic is getting an early start on ignoring their beta testers.
The apple does not fall far from the tree, they will not be forgiven for how badly they bungled DAOC.
Obi-Habby @ May 31st 2007 12:24PM
LOL spam filter DAAAAAAAAAH!
Jacob @ May 31st 2007 12:29PM
Will it come with virtual tape-measures for hours of bitching about attack ranges and stuff?
Anam @ May 31st 2007 12:41PM
"how long did it take for you to get the email back to confirm. Im closing in on 20 mins here."
You can use the password they send you in the email to avoid that the next time, but to answer your question, it took me about 5 minutes the last time I had to confirm one.
Jonah Falcon @ May 31st 2007 1:22PM
Mythic did Dark Age of Camelot - I have very high hopes for this one.
Kyrra @ May 31st 2007 2:10PM
Tabula Rasa looks like an amazing game. Here is a 30 minute presentation by Lord British about it:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/gasp/TR_UNCUT.mp4
I've been read up it quite a bit for the last month, and it does look like a pretty interesting game.
Zsavior @ May 31st 2007 3:00PM
Oh yeah, I been waiting for this, I think I am a litle giddy.
blindeagle @ May 31st 2007 3:42PM
"how long did it take for you to get the email back to confirm. Im closing in on 20 mins here."
Yeah i thought i was having the same problem...but it has a "no-reply" addy so it got stuck in my spam filter...so check ye olde spam
Anam @ May 31st 2007 4:05PM
@Kyrra
I love it. An article about Warhammer becomes free advertisement for Tabula Rasa. Someone at EA Mythic is probably pissed.
Thanks for the link by the way.
Zsavior @ May 31st 2007 4:28PM
Oh to people saying they aren't getting Reply check spam mail cause I got my reply right away, but cause I kept my spam mail empty I saw when it come and it was from mythic.
Don't know why it is going to spam mail automatically but that is what it did. Hope it helps some.
Becky @ May 31st 2007 11:50PM
Polish? Has the joystiq commenter played LOTR Online past level ten? LOTRO polished?
LOTRO has a clumsy, simple combat system..
Poor user feedback while in combat..
Entirely Meaningless stat progression ( stats do nearly nothing)
An extremely prohibitive leveling system ( ONLY quests give significant EXP, but most quests are parts of chains of many steps, and you cannot share a step ahead of your groupmate.This means you'll spend a lot of time helping people on earlier steps of quest chains to catch them up to you, which you get no benefit from. Monster Kill EXP is next to nothing)
An economy that was so vulnerable to secondary market gold farmers that within the first month the price of commoddities inflated like the russian ruble. I'm looking at you, dwarf iron ore!
An endgame that is COMPLETELY POOCHED. Instances like Fornost are horribly ill concieved and unrewarding. Solo content for the 40+ game amounts to ENDLESS GRIND FOR BOOK PAGES just to get your level 40+ skills. Anyone played FFXI and remember what a pain in the butt it was to get the pages from the skeletons for the Genkai quests? Imagine THE WHOLE REST OF THE ENDGAME was like that?
LOTRO was the most regrettable MMO purchase I've ever made in eight years of MMOG playing.