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Release Date!!!
Dreawing
Member Posts: 362
Mythic annouced today that the release date is
Sept , 23, 08
HERE COMES THE FUCKIN WAAAGH!!!!
http://www.ea.com.sg/en-sg/games/pc/warhammer/warhammeronline_collectors/
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That made me smile... Big....
And now I know what week to take off of work! ^___^
Edit: Although if that's what EA is estimating then I'll be saddened. Should probably not get my hopes raised up until we see an actual announcement.
Hmmm....
Now it'll have to compete against WOTLK which releases Nov 3, 08. And then a month later, it'll have to compete with SC2.
At least those are the dates I saw - nothing confirmed.
Woot!!! now all i need to do is get a new comp to replace this one which is falling apart before the open beta....
It might be wrong. Wait this week for the newsletter. I bet you it'll have the date.
yea it's the confirmed ones because it's on a EA site so warhammer is coming out in september 23 then open beta this august
quote "I need get my sound card double time"!!!!!
Not to mention, we still have these things to finish:
1) Guild Beta, which just started less than two weeks ago (?).
2) Open Beta, which better be longer than two weeks, or Mythic will get mobbed by the angry horde of CE buyers.
3) Headstart, which *should* last a minimum of 4-5 days (not everyone can start the instant the servers are up).
4) One to two days ramp-up time while they get the full set of servers ready (possibly time before Headstart for this).
They have exactly 60 days left to pull that all off if they want to make this phantom date happen. Yes they can do it, but it will be serious crunch time, and I'm guessing Open Beta would suffer for it if they tried (i.e. it'd be a lot less than 4 weeks). That would be unfortunate, because I think launch will be bigger than they plan on, and servers will get slammed - they will need to be load tested heavily, and open beta is when you do that.
It goes without saying I want the game to launch just like everyone else, but I certainly don't want to rush it out the door and have it hurt in the process, just to beat some add-on in another game.
ok i am at comic con in sad diego and talking with Josh (yeah you know him) and asking him the release date he still says "Fall"..... but i don't know i will ask him tomorrow or paul on saturday (you guys don't know how excited i am) and so far i have not been able to play that much due to everything going on and other booths and such but i can only say one thing
All the naysayers wont have much to wine about launch time ...i played some open RvR today running around with a chosen (some guy standing next to me) and we were killing drawfs left and right (i was playing a dark elf sorceress)
the spell efects are top notch, i went speechless when i saw a giant purple rock fall from the sky and purple choas spikes shot up from the ground killing an annoying bright wizard. The combat is very fast and if you are not paying attention you will get jumped only reason it looks slow in some videos is because it takes time to kill someone/something. but casting time and auto attacking is only a tad slower then "the game which shall not be named" (as taken from another WAR fan) the action point system is very cool and allows for the fast casting and great combat. and is really great and is a step in the right direction.
The dark elf darkmagic build up (forget what it is called) is noticable but takes a while to build up but at the higher levels it is great for damage but have to make sure you have a healer on you....for those "God damn it " moments of choatic backup blasting in your face. Tomorrow i plan on trying to play some more order classes (i played some shadow warrior for a few quests but wasnt long enough to tell anyone about).
one more thing PQs are really really cool...i was playing a chosen and running around and saw these choas mages (they were not on disks so...don't know what to call them.) and the first part of one was fun it was killing 25 empire troops...which was easy solo..but the second part of it was collecting souls but they were guarded by elites (or what ever they were called)
anyway that ends my rant but i will ask the devs tomorrow about it..
they say the open beta will Start "really soon" so hopefully in august and hopefully early...
But last and not least i want WAR and the content i was was very polished and very smooth from everything from the envrionment to the combat.
Hmmm....
Now it'll have to compete against WOTLK which releases Nov 3, 08. And then a month later, it'll have to compete with SC2.
At least those are the dates I saw - nothing confirmed.
SC2 compete with WAR? rofl.. i don't know about a single mmo gamer that play RTS games, but people got different taste for sure.. but if we gonna compare gengres all the time, than why dont just say how small the mmo gengre is compared to FPS games?
Epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I'll add two things:
1) When they announced the cut content they had a hard release date (which was known internally). This is why they were cutting the content to get the game out the door by that date.
2) There were emails which I'm sure many got... that specificly mention this release date of Sept 23 and in stores Sept 24th.
Much sooner than I would have expected to be honest.. but its an MMO.. and by classic design that's pretty much how they release.. we'll see I guess.
If this is the release date, it might be safe to buy the game on new year...
Sweet!
That date does sound like exactly what I expected so I would call it the truth until told otherwise.
So much coming out over these next 3 months
Starting Aug 29th I have a game a week for 4 weeks to buy...not good at all.
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SC2 compete with WAR? rofl.. i don't know about a single mmo gamer that play RTS games, but people got different taste for sure.. but if we gonna compare gengres all the time, than why dont just say how small the mmo gengre is compared to FPS games?
I do
Sept 23rd is the first day of Fall. As in Q4 2008. There are a lot of sites shwoing this instead of a general timegrame. It's not an official release date.
Sorry.
Hmmm....
Now it'll have to compete against WOTLK which releases Nov 3, 08. And then a month later, it'll have to compete with SC2.
At least those are the dates I saw - nothing confirmed.
SC2 compete with WAR? rofl.. i don't know about a single mmo gamer that play RTS games, but people got different taste for sure.. but if we gonna compare gengres all the time, than why dont just say how small the mmo gengre is compared to FPS games?
I play RTS games and alot of my friends who love MMOS play RTS games. We also play FPS games not everyone is genre picky and stick to only one genre. Of course we don't consider our single player games as competetion for time with our MMO games.
SC2 doesn't even have a release date at best we might see it on the shelves next year maybe christmas so even if single player games could compete with MMO games (they can't since MMOS garner money for every subscriber the stays past 30 days) SC2 wouldn't be in the running. If anything SC2 will probably hurt WoW since tons of WoW playesr are HUGE Blizzard fans to begin with.
btw Dreamwing just because EA STore has a date posted (like all other game stores) doesn't mean its official. Mythic would most definitly do a huge press announcement for their release date so any date anyone mentions including stores right now is purely speculation.
While I really do enjoy the thought of seeing an actual release date, I wouldn't get too overly excited as that could just be an estimate on EA's part. If it indeed is the real date, then I'm sure we'll hear about it in the newsletter in just a few days. Hold on to your hats!
Sept 23rd is the first day of Fall. As in Q4 2008. There are a lot of sites shwoing this instead of a general timegrame. It's not an official release date.
Sorry.
Ehhh..
Isn't Sept 1st the first day of fall??
Sept 23rd is the first day of Fall. As in Q4 2008. There are a lot of sites shwoing this instead of a general timegrame. It's not an official release date.
Sorry.
Ehhh..
Isn't Sept 1st the first day of fall??
No
Sent me an email if you want me to mail you some pizza rolls.
So it's finally coming down to it. All the initial lathering over the first glimpes of war years ago as the first wow-killer, all the hubbub, hype, disappointments, corporate manuevering, naysaying and fanboyisms. Should be really damn interesting. Wonder what kind of open beta fiasco we should expect with this one? "I'm trying the open beta to see if I should buy it or not." "You idiot! Beta is only 10% of the game and nothing is implemented yet!"
Don't like the release date, it interferes with SPORE!!!
I just hope EA sell it on their download manager
like I want to pay all of the shipping and import fees from the US to the UK. Oh and no I'm not going to play the euro version.
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LOL.. i noticed that too...
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SC2 compete with WAR? rofl.. i don't know about a single mmo gamer that play RTS games, but people got different taste for sure.. but if we gonna compare gengres all the time, than why dont just say how small the mmo gengre is compared to FPS games?
I do
Though it won't come before SC2, I'm much more excited about...
DAWN OF WAR 2. Since Starcraft is a ripoff of Warhammer 40K (no surprise), they'll be similar, except Relic is very good at making RTS games.
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A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
Order of the White Border.
Zomg, there go the last remains of my RL....
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SC2 compete with WAR? rofl.. i don't know about a single mmo gamer that play RTS games, but people got different taste for sure.. but if we gonna compare gengres all the time, than why dont just say how small the mmo gengre is compared to FPS games?
I do
Though it won't come before SC2, I'm much more excited about...
DAWN OF WAR 2. Since Starcraft is a ripoff of Warhammer 40K (no surprise), they'll be similar, except Relic is very good at making RTS games.
Blizzard is very good as well...