When EA Mythic
announced plans to delay its upcoming MMO
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning until 2008, we'd be lying if we said the news was met with anything but a sigh of relief. After all, retail shelves are already home to more than enough half-baked massively multiplayer escapades for our liking, and anything to keep from being tempted to fork over hard earned rupees for the honor of being glorified beta testers is just fine by us. We'd much rather that pleasure fall to real beta testers, which according EA now number more than 500,000 strong in both North America and Europe, an impressive jump from the some 200,000
announced just six months ago.
Warhammer Online, which promises "revolutionary" realm vs. realm combat and just might
be console bound, is currently poised to launch for real sometime during 2008's second quarter, though those players itching for an early taste of what the tabletop-inspired MMO will offer can still sign up for the beta on
EA Mythic's website. As for the rest of us, we'll continue to play the ever-popular waiting game, which may or may not be just as fun. For those of you who are in the beta, feel free to
let us know.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ga1d3n @ Dec 13th 2007 9:52PM
I'm one of the lucky few in Warhammer Beta :)
fourdigit @ Dec 13th 2007 10:13PM
I'll still wait to buy it.
Santo @ Dec 13th 2007 10:24PM
That's great. Just great.
SO WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO INVITE ME??!?!?!
Ameister @ Dec 13th 2007 10:27PM
I was in the beta for about a month before they took it down. Itching to get back in.
MegaSnort @ Dec 13th 2007 10:28PM
Considering I signed up multiple times over a year ago... better go check my email(s)
gonk @ Dec 13th 2007 10:28PM
i'll try out a free trial after the game releases
it would be nice if the game's good though, and different than wow. i got bored of wow after only 5 months, less time than it took me to quit CoV
Snuffulufugus @ Dec 13th 2007 11:01PM
/praying this game will be the death of WoW. That game is miserable.
Anticrawl @ Dec 13th 2007 11:29PM
The only time I'll ever buy another MMO is if it can truely make me feel when I first started playing Ultima Online. Then again that'll probably be impossible because I probably wasn't enchanted by the world but rather the vast social aspect of the MMO I had never experienced before (I mean well other than BBSs and MU*s cause I've been dialing into servers to play games since you guys were in your daipers I bet).....
Hrm.. I think I'm gonna go see if there are still any decent Wheels of Time MUDs around *cracks zMud while he's typing this*. Those guys should really update their assembler. It's just to easy.
Warlord @ Dec 13th 2007 11:32PM
I know, UO had a good feeling to it. Too bad the engine is way outdated. I've always had a dream of modding the WOW game engine to reproduce brittania...
Anticrawl @ Dec 13th 2007 11:37PM
Yeah there was certainly something about Ultima Online that I never got from any of the followers I've tried. I would call for a new Ultima Online but yea... that was back in the days of a kinder more innocent EA hahaha, well compared to the modernday EA that is. And I don't know if I could have another nostalgic moment in time ruined.
I reserve the though of ever playing another MMO until Guild Wars 2 comes out. The first one had a few cool concepts but it didn't quite hook you, the concepts surrounding the 2nd one sound pretty impressive though.
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Dec 13th 2007 11:49PM
First MMO to fully challenge WoW?
Well there IS LOTRO but...............yeah.
Cabcru @ Dec 14th 2007 6:05AM
I really can't wait for Warhammer to come out. After suffering a year of idiots spouting "WoW is gonna die when Warhammer comes out!" on the WoW forums, it'll be bliss to be rid of those planks... at least for a few weeks, anyway.
Brello @ Dec 14th 2007 12:47AM
That first paragraph in the article is so true.
Geist @ Dec 14th 2007 2:10AM
More like World of Warhammer...Online..Craft.
bombtrak @ Dec 14th 2007 9:39AM
Not all that excited about this idea. Plenty of fantasy based MMO's out already. Now a Warhammer 40k MMO I could get behind (I think I have a vague memory of one being announced? Not sure...). That would be a unique universe to explore.
riggs @ Dec 14th 2007 9:45AM
are there any MMO's coming out for the 360 at all? (serious question)
Coyote @ Dec 14th 2007 11:00AM
I actually went to GamesDay several months back where I got a exclusive access code, and they still havn't invited me. Even with a promise from the devs there that everyone at the con would have access by the end of summer.
Dogmeat26 @ Dec 14th 2007 12:40PM
Please release this baby when it is ready. With properly fleshed out pvp focused gaming. Use the War part not like WOW which should be named Pve Craft.
http://uberotaku.com
Cicadymn @ Dec 14th 2007 2:46PM
Well there is a Warhammer 40k MMO in the works. It's just barely beginning to be started so It'll be a good 2 years+ before it's out.
Also: It's not totally based on the tabletop game, but the Warhammer fantasy roleplay as well.
They're...*Gasp* Sticking to lore!