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Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Beta Registration Reaches 200,000

SzarkSzark News ManagerMember Posts: 4,420
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EA Mythic has announced that the beta sign-up for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has reached 200,000. This doesn't come as a huge surprise as Warhammer Online is one of the most anticipated games on the horizon, and is consistently ranked as the most anticipated game by users on this site.

EA AMASSES AN ARMY FOR WARHAMMER® ONLINE: AGE OF RECKONING™ BETA TEST

In Only Ten Days More than 200,000 Aspiring Troops Sign Up for the Beta Test of
EA's Highly-Anticipated MMO

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - June 13, 2007 - Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment company, today announced that more than 200,000 players have signed up for the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) closed beta test.

The Warhammer Online Beta Center opened simultaneously in North America and Europe on May 30th, and the 200,000 registration mark was surpassed over the weekend, less than ten days after launch. This makes the beta test of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning one of the most rapidly growing beta tests in the history of the MMORPG category. The Beta Center is currently open and accepting applications at https://betacenter.eamythic.com/signup.php.

Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager of EA Mythic said, "We would like to thank the community for their tremendous response to Warhammer Online. The overwhelming worldwide reaction to the beta test has been phenomenal. The team has been working incredibly hard to create a genre-defining experience, and the beta sign-ups certainly validate the direction we're taking the game. Player input and testing will be crucial in our efforts to complete the game, and we look forward to beta participants' help in shaping Warhammer Online."

Based on Games Workshop's epic tabletop fantasy war game, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning features revolutionary Realm vs. Realm™ (RvR) game play and is scheduled for release on the PC in the first quarter of calendar 2008.

For mor information about Warhammer Online, click here.

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  • ElgarethElgareth Member Posts: 588
    There is already a Post about it.

    From Yesterday...

    Stop Trolling the Forums please
  • RobbgobbRobbgobb Member UncommonPosts: 674
    Originally posted by Elgareth

    There is already a Post about it.

    From Yesterday...

    Stop Trolling the Forums please
    Lol, it is funny to see that but hasn't this been happening occassionally as is? Seems like recently at least that I have seen a few forum posts up for a time before the story is put on the front page.
  • Dark_Lord_13Dark_Lord_13 Member Posts: 248
    Originally posted by Elgareth

    There is already a Post about it.

    From Yesterday...

    Stop Trolling the Forums please



    Wha?

    Either I've missed something or you're the one trolling.  I'm guessing the second since this is the first post I've seen on it, and it's the post that's linked to the e-mails about from the MMORPG news article.

    My suggestion is stop trying to tell people what they need to post about because you obviously are not in charge of that.  Not to mention keeping quiet makes you look alot more intelligent.  At least more than you do right now.

  • ElgarethElgareth Member Posts: 588
    Originally posted by Dark_Lord_13

    Originally posted by Elgareth

    There is already a Post about it.

    From Yesterday...

    Stop Trolling the Forums please



    Wha?

    Either I've missed something or you're the one trolling.



    You missed something ;-)
  • ColdSunColdSun Member Posts: 210

    Either he's trolling your thread or he's just an angry WoW fan.  

    "Waiting on Warhammer."  It won't take much to beat WoW right now - the PVP system is a joke.  DAOC had and still has one of the best systems out for MMOs.  I'm guessing WAR will be even better.

    ColdSun

  • m3tam3ta Member Posts: 59
    "For mor inclormation about Warhammer Online, click here."



    Someone translate "mor inclormation" for me please...
  • ShneakyOneShneakyOne Member UncommonPosts: 156
    Guys, this is only CLOSED Beta.... I bet it will hit 500k People by OPEN Beta.... when the game actually launches in early 2008... I won't be surprised if the game hits 1 Million Subscribers in the first 2 months of coming out... and I bet 20%-30% of those players will be people switching over from WoW.
  • CeohaiCeohai Member Posts: 305
    Originally posted by ShneakyOne

    Guys, this is only CLOSED Beta.... I bet it will hit 500k People by OPEN Beta.... when the game actually launches in early 2008... I won't be surprised if the game hits 1 Million Subscribers in the first 2 months of coming out... and I bet 20%-30% of those players will be people switching over from WoW.
    This game won't have an open beta phase.
  • GreenChaosGreenChaos Member Posts: 2,268
    Well I still don't have my invite girl friend, so talk to the hand!
  • JheregJhereg Member UncommonPosts: 55
    Wow, that is so funny that they think just because 200,000 people sign up for their beta that it is phenomenal.  Please more than half of those people will drop when the game goes live.  They are just doing it for the free ride.  Their are just certain people who look for beta games to play, never real test anything, then when the game goes live they quit.
  • EattenEatten Member Posts: 86
    i think they made this announcement because age of conan made one about 100k so now mystic wants to act like they are the bigger dawg by saying they have more....or i could be wrong but it seems to be the new trend now i guess
  • CeohaiCeohai Member Posts: 305
    This announcement is just an attempt to build up hype for the game, the number is really meaningless, not that there's anything wrong with building up hype.

    Oh, and btw, MBJ has said the following:
    Folks,



    I'll repost here for clarity. Our 200K signups are validated as working email addresses, non-duplicates and we have to receive a response from the user before we consider them a valid signup. If we added those that we haven't received a response from, our numbers would be a bit higher. We are constantly purging the database, as is GOA, to make sure that our numbers are true and our signup list is a good one.



    Mark
  • Oasis21Oasis21 Member Posts: 35
    Originally posted by Jhereg

    Wow, that is so funny that they think just because 200,000 people sign up for their beta that it is phenomenal.  Please more than half of those people will drop when the game goes live.  They are just doing it for the free ride.  Their are just certain people who look for beta games to play, never real test anything, then when the game goes live they quit.
    WoW when they had a closed beta they had less people signing up for the closed beta but it got 8 million people to buy and suscribe for it when it came out. Dont make these crap assumptions just because thats what you're going to do.
  • OgrelinOgrelin Member Posts: 636

    I guess there are a couple of 100k ex-daocers who signed up.

  • kiDokiDo Member Posts: 30
    Originally posted by deaddeath

    Originally posted by ShneakyOne

    Guys, this is only CLOSED Beta.... I bet it will hit 500k People by OPEN Beta.... when the game actually launches in early 2008... I won't be surprised if the game hits 1 Million Subscribers in the first 2 months of coming out... and I bet 20%-30% of those players will be people switching over from WoW.
    This game won't have an open beta phase. stress testing
  • diarheasaucediarheasauce Member Posts: 60
    dammit an i still havint singed up yet casue of the dx dialog thing, no internet on gamin pc /cry



    so looks like i will be like #245098 to sign up, GESS MY CHANCES ARE GOING TO BE GOOD



    YEAH RIGHT!  I have a better chance at finding gold in my cats vomit

    WORD LIFE LAWL SAUCE

  • KinslayerXKinslayerX Member Posts: 87
    Originally posted by diarheasauce

    dammit an i still havint singed up yet casue of the dx dialog thing, no internet on gamin pc /cry



    so looks like i will be like #245098 to sign up, GESS MY CHANCES ARE GOING TO BE GOOD



    YEAH RIGHT!  I have a better chance at finding gold in my cats vomit
      Just use someone else's PC and DX file to sign up from.

    CoH/CoV - D-Zol/Kinslayer
    Auto Assault - Slayer
    WoW, LOTRO, DDO - Kinsul
    Matrix Online - Tempest

  • diarheasaucediarheasauce Member Posts: 60
    Originally posted by KinslayerX

    Originally posted by diarheasauce

    dammit an i still havint singed up yet casue of the dx dialog thing, no internet on gamin pc /cry



    so looks like i will be like #245098 to sign up, GESS MY CHANCES ARE GOING TO BE GOOD



    YEAH RIGHT!  I have a better chance at finding gold in my cats vomit
      Just use someone else's PC and DX file to sign up from. but den they don see my uber l33t sauce pc and instead see a peice of crap dialog ya know

    WORD LIFE LAWL SAUCE

  • JheregJhereg Member UncommonPosts: 55
    Originally posted by Oasis21

    Originally posted by Jhereg

    Wow, that is so funny that they think just because 200,000 people sign up for their beta that it is phenomenal.  Please more than half of those people will drop when the game goes live.  They are just doing it for the free ride.  Their are just certain people who look for beta games to play, never real test anything, then when the game goes live they quit.
    WoW when they had a closed beta they had less people signing up for the closed beta but it got 8 million people to buy and suscribe for it when it came out. Dont make these crap assumptions just because thats what you're going to do.

    hahaha you wish buddy.  This is the next best MMORPG since sliced bread, and I plan on taking it to END GAME.
  • KinslayerXKinslayerX Member Posts: 87
    Originally posted by Jhereg



    hahaha you wish buddy.  This is the next best MMORPG since sliced bread, and I plan on taking it to END GAME.
    Funny, I'm quite sure everyone was saying the same things about DDO, Vanguard, LOTRO and a whole raft of other games before they actually launched.



    How you can state something like that as fact when no one's actually played the game I really don't know. Everything sounds good when it's on paper but until you actually see the game 2-3 months down the line after it's live launch and see if it's just another tedious grind fest with a few novelty features to differentiate it from last months new tedious grind fest then all the fanboy and dev hype is nothing but farting in the wind as far as substance goes.



    As for me, I'll reserve judgement until I actually get a copy in my hands and have some cold hard facts to base my opinion on

    CoH/CoV - D-Zol/Kinslayer
    Auto Assault - Slayer
    WoW, LOTRO, DDO - Kinsul
    Matrix Online - Tempest

  • sl4y3r6363sl4y3r6363 Member Posts: 81
    This is looking good and some people will believe that this game will never be able to match WoW's huge number of subscribers but i think and hope that many people will switch games and this game in time i believe will match WoW's numbers.
  • tapeworm00tapeworm00 Member Posts: 549
    People, people, like some of you have already said, numbers don't mean jack. It's not like they're gonna let 200k people in their CLOSED beta, so whoever said that this is just a bunch of hype is definitely right. WoW's got 8 million subscribers, but that doesn't make it an awesome game. It's good, but it could be better, considering the other good MMO's out there.



    In any case, those numbers don't mean anything to us until the game comes out or until we can get our hands on the beta and "make things right", but they mean something to them: primarily, that all the hype they've been building around the game has been working, and working really good when you compare them to the parallely famous Age of Conan's number of beta signup applications who someone else in this thread pointed out.



    This isn't for us, it's for themselves. Congrats Mythic.
  • DelamekoDelameko Member Posts: 200
    Originally posted by diarheasauce

    dammit an i still havint singed up yet casue of the dx dialog thing, no internet on gamin pc /cry



    so looks like i will be like #245098 to sign up, GESS MY CHANCES ARE GOING TO BE GOOD



    YEAH RIGHT!  I have a better chance at finding gold in my cats vomit


    How you gonna play an online game if your gaming PC isn't hooked up to the internet..?
  • CiredricCiredric Member Posts: 723

    Wow, that is going to be 200,000 very disappointed people.  You think they would realize what a sorry developer Mythic is and avoid them.

    Can't wait to see the first nerf from Nerf-a-lot and see all the screams on the boards.

  • deplorabledeplorable Member Posts: 418
    Originally posted by Ciredric


    Wow, that is going to be 200,000 very disappointed people.  You think they would realize what a sorry developer Mythic is and avoid them.
    Can't wait to see the first nerf from Nerf-a-lot and see all the screams on the boards.

     

    very constructive i must say.

    passes you *humble pie* go on eat up, better now than later....

    sour grapes seem to be passing quite nicely along.

     

    sorry developer... please like blizzard are any better, starcraft ghost, multiplayer and single player demo in E3 2005 .. gee as soon as microsoft mention the 360, and sony talk about the PS3.. .blizzard drops it very quickly and make an excuse that "they're making it for the next-gen consoles". then drop it completly a year later. very nice.

    Warcraft was an average came,  warcraft3 was good in terms of advancement, but as soon as you start adding giant insects ripped from starship trooper to a medieval game, blue spacemen then make the alliance the EXACT same as the horde in terms of classes and screw the lore over more times than paris hilton. then somethings wrong.

    I mean if they don't add arthas in the next expansion, then it's really going to kill the game. After Kel'Thuzad, Lady Vashi, Kael and Illidan, now i have to kill some meaningless badguy bosses who've never been mentioned  before Northrend. come on....

     

    don't even mention SoE to me, their past speaks for themselves. 

    all MMO developers suck, we've gotten used to it.. next time aim for ciritcism that can be taken seriously.

     

     

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