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EA to bring WAR to ASIA

SickpupSickpup Member Posts: 382
in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Electronic Arts have just announced that it will bring WAR to major Asian regions, including Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan.



"Warhammer Online is coming to Asia," says Hubert Larenaudie, President of EA Asia Online. "WAR is one of the most anticipated MMORPGs today and we are excited to bring the game to Asian audiences. With its unique RvR system and rich end game content, Warhammer Online is sure to set a new standard for MMORPGs in Asia."



"Over the last twenty-four years, Games Workshop has crafted and refined the Warhammer fantasy universe into one of the richest intellectual properties in the world," says Mark Jacobs, GM of EA Mythic and lead designer of WAR. "Combine this with EA Mythic's expertise in creating massively multiplayer online games and the result is a title that we look forward to presenting to the exciting and vibrant Asian market."



Release dates for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning in Asia will be announced at a later date. For more information please visit the official Warhammer Online websites at:

Korea - http://www.warhammer-online.co.kr

China - http://www.warhammer-online.com.cn

Taiwan -http://www.warhammeronline.tw

Japan - http://www.warhammer-online.jp



Source.


Just as the pup predicted,in his are these graphics based on tapping into the asian market thread.

Comments

  • PetzenPetzen Member Posts: 74
    Welcome to 5 days ago... :p



    Oh and btw: The graphics look like that because that is what Warhammer always has been like and probably always will. They are not aimed towards any specific region.
  • SickpupSickpup Member Posts: 382
    well nobody on this forum posted any details(I believe these are new details,not just the vague announcement).Yes I admit its sad when a forum is 5 days behind.Maybe this forum is just not viable atm.I dont know what the story.Btw what do i owe you for the bump?
  • danno1984danno1984 Member Posts: 41
    Originally posted by Petzen



    Oh and btw: The graphics look like that because that is what Warhammer always has been like and probably always will. They are not aimed towards any specific region.
    Exactly, would of thought that was obvious.
  • RabidaskalRabidaskal Member Posts: 238
    I hope they dont go down the road of regionalisation =p

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  • HorusgirlHorusgirl Member Posts: 120
    Originally posted by Sickpup




    Just as the pup predicted,in his are these graphics based on tapping into the asian market thread.
    Is this the newest kind of trolling?  After  "It looks like WoW"  it's now "It looks like asian MMOs" ?



    Oh btw, making a new thread doesn't make your point any more valid.



    So let's just set things straight again you are talking about art style not graphics.



    So where were we in the other thread? Oh yeah right, you deliberately ignored every post that mentioned WARs art style beeing based on the original Warhammer artworks.



    What you are saying is basically Mythic changed the original art style of Warhammer to please asian players. But most TT players and Games Workshop seem to think that it's very true to the original art. So tell us what did they change?



    If they didn't change it, then maybe the original art was made to please asian players? Why would GW do that when they were originally selling their stuff only in EU and NA?



    No really, tell us! Do you suggest that GW are some kind of psychics who knew that they will one day make a mmo with their ip and that asian players will then like their art style?



    Of course you will keep ignoring this point and just repeat your silly little theory ad infinitum.


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  • busdriverbusdriver Member Posts: 859
    This got me very exited. I must renew my ebay acc so I can set up a goldfarm in China and make some serious $$$.
  • kraidenkraiden Staff WriterMember UncommonPosts: 638

    Did you know that the majority of the people who dont speak to you and are gold farmers are from brasil and NOT china? Some are also canadian and also alot from us.  They pretty much just run with the asian gold farmer thing, but none of the companies are set up in China if you ever cared to investigate but some of the websites are registered to companies in Rio D.

    Aside from that. Wars graphics are set to tap into the asian market?

    This is from dark age of camelot. Looks kinda similar to war dosent it?

    Well thats because its the same company. Blend the table top miniatures (a game thats 25 years old) with Dark age of camelots engine and you have WAR.

    Asian market? All this does it make them more money, I honestly could care less about how much money the company makes but care more about how much I myself will like the game. Everquest had 4-5 times the playerbase that DAoC had, but Camelot really is a quality work of art in terms of gaming.



    I would expect to have seperate asian/pac rim , euro and US Hosts.  I  would aloso expect it to go even further and have time zone related servers (2 eastern time zone, 2 central 2 mountain ect) because of all the time ballance issues that happened in DAOC they would learn from that and at least try to nudge people towards playing with their timezones so RvR raids and the like and all go off at around the same peak times.

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    Originally posted by busdriver

    This got me very exited. I must renew my ebay acc so I can set up a goldfarm in China and make some serious $$$.
    ...and you would make such little profit that you won't even be able to pay for your saturday evening meal.



    Honnestly, I have seen this so many times when a game announces an asian servers.There is always some poorly-informed soul who has to make a joke about gold farmers.



    Gold Farmers work on WESTERN SERVICE of the game, not the eastern. there is no money to gain on the eastern servers (except for maybe some South Korean games). The western servers, thats where the money is.
  • HealforfoodHealforfood Member Posts: 57

    Does this mean WAR is going head to head with WoW?

    Can we play on the asian servers?

    Do you think WAR will top 3 million players now?

  • PetzenPetzen Member Posts: 74
    Originally posted by Healforfood


    Does this mean WAR is going head to head with WoW?
    Can we play on the asian servers?
    Do you think WAR will top 3 million players now?
    1) Not sure what you mean by "head to head with WoW". Every single MMORPG is trying to get as many subs as posible. They are going head to head with all other games, not just WoW.



    2) You can play on the asian servers if you buy an asian version of the game I would assume.



    3) I won't even start making guesses about how many subs War will have
  • AreelAreel Member Posts: 285
    So, when you could hardly get anyone to agree with you in your other thread about "Asian graphics," you went ahead and tried to sneak the reignite the debate in another thread.  Nice.

    Seriously.
    It's Are'el. This forum doesn't allow apostrophes in usernames.

  • nakumanakuma Member UncommonPosts: 1,310

    thats right bring asia another game to mess up and leech off for gold services. those people make me sick. its bad enough they leeched off Lineage2(utterly ruining the economy almost the breaking point)  Everquest 2, and wow ( i got several emails a week in WOW mail box for stupid gold service crap) i think they should be dragged into the public square and shot and made an example of.

    I think these sites should be either centrally controlled by the devs/company making the game so the money goes to them, or disabled completely by force e.g. litigation, law suits,search and siezure. that would be my answer. i am truly tired of gold services powerlevel service websites. but at the same time people arfe stupid for paying for them so both should be punished equally. either way I think this is bad news for warhammer give it time youll see hahshshfsf and ahsdhasdahda and his other nameless flunkies spamming the ooc "RANG! RANG! U GO NOW! I PK! I PK!

    as u can see i have utter distain for these type of individuals. u cant deny the majority of these "operations" are centralized in ASia, korea, JAPAN, and CHINA .many games have fallen to their electronic blade of lithe and deciet and treachery Destroy it all and let god sort them out.

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  • AreelAreel Member Posts: 285
    Remember that Mythic was planning on keeping US and European servers separate, so they'll keep Asian servers separate as well.  Any gold farmers would have gotten into the Western servers, anyway, by simply buying Western versions of the game.  Unless they block connections from other parts of the world, which would be difficult.

    Seriously.
    It's Are'el. This forum doesn't allow apostrophes in usernames.

  • LordcrapalotLordcrapalot Member Posts: 191

    OP look, Mythic had already desgined their models and such a long time before EA bought the company. Thus the graphics design were made before the EA decided to make the game available to the asian market. Get it?

    So stop posting threads about this and just try and realise that no one will agree with you. Your wrong period.

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  • SickpupSickpup Member Posts: 382
    What am I wrong about? EA marketing to Asia?

    Now I can't say when EA bought Mythic this was already being thought up,that would be insider trading.Personally I could care less if anyone on this forum agrees with me.I wouldn't want or expect you to.

    But this post was to easy to pass up :D.



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