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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: Notice of Shutdown Posted
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
The Warhammer Online development team has posted a notice on the official site that states that the game will cease operations on December 18th. The official notice is quite terse but a personal reflection post by Producer Carrie Gouskos is also available on the site.
Greetings Warhammer Online Subscribers,
We here at Mythic have built an amazing relationship working with Games Workshop creating and running Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning over the last 8 years. Unfortunately, as with all licensing deals they do eventually come to end and on December 18th, 2013 we will no longer be operating Warhammer Online. As such we will no longer be selling 3 month game time codes or have the ability to auto renew your accounts for 3 months as of September 18th, 2013. If you would like to read some additional thoughts from one of WAR’s Producer please check out http://www.warhammeronline.com/. From all of us here at Mythic we thank you again for your dedication and support over the last five years.
If you have any questions please feel free contact us via email at support@warhammeronline.com.
Waaagh!
Warhammer Team
Read Gouskos's letter here.
Comments
Life of an MMORPG "addict"
For 7 years, proving that if you quote "fuck" you won't get banned.
EA/Bioware/Mythic should be ashamed of themselves.
The game had its problems, but they gave up on it, and its playerbase, far too soon. The majority of games that have come out over the last several years have had problems. The difference here is that the other game companies have put legitimate effort into improving those games, while EA and Mythic decided to pull the plug on real support after about a year.
The RvR in WAR was actually a lot of fun, and the game could have been improved and salvaged.
Shame on Mythic.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
for both WAR and DAOC I was hoping for a ftp option
WAR was saddled w the Games Workshop license
DAOC doesnt have that ip handicap so who knows ...
EQ2 fan sites
Sucks balls :-(
I held out a very unrealistic hope that it would eventually go free to play and attract back a decent audience but it was a pipe dream given the many aspects of the game that fell short of acceptable. Still, lot of good times in this game and I will miss my little 'waaargh'-y greenskin shaman :-(
i think they decided to shut it down instead of saving it as F2P because Swtor is not doing well with their awful hybrid model. Since Mythic is also part of EA they just opted to let it die. My opinion, of course.
I never played SWG but i remember when it shut down SOE said the license ended, then EA took the license and made Swtor. Now WAR's license is ending, i hope a better company gets revives it or make a better version. I would definitelly have played this game without a sub.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uXwZtnQ-SE
Legendary!
Paul Barnett was just AWESOME... the actual game was not so awesome, unfortunately.
Biggest prerelease hype ever!
I am a little sad.
Yet, they had so many good ideas like the tomb of knowledge or open quests - now ALL MMOs have those things.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
It was about time.
This was the first WoW clone (with some DAOC twist), so as it signaled the start of an era, I hope its demise signals the start of a new era (the end of WoW clones)
For the people complaining......................WAR wasn't good enough, didn't have enough paying customers and therefore it had to go.
Sorry to say this, but mediocre games deserve this fate.
Developers need to start making real MMOs and should stop chasing the Holy Graal..................maybe they should look at older games pre-WoW, which by the way are all still alive.
That certainly IS true. I had good in with my Bright Mage raining down fire on Chaos players. Still, it was just very ugly, totally imbalanced, lame PVE and was overall just a very mediocre MMO. But they just gave it up! It'S what we have seen so often, when a MMO goes wrong, big companies just drop it like a hot potatoe. They take no effort to turn it around, especially in the case of EA.
And look at the screenshots! It looks like 15 years old not five years. So much to the theory that cartoony ages better, eh?
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
Swtor next?
I remember playing the beta for WAR, and the game kept crashing. It was actually a good game too.
This is also true, as I tried to explain many times in the SWG case, you cannot have 2 MMOs with the same IP running at the same time because of licensing rights reasons.
I really enjoyed this game with my friends on the Phoenix Throne RP server (before merges)
If they would have put out a expansion..even now I would buy it and hope it had all the cities that was in the closed beta that was never released.
This is very sad
Some great zones, and classes, but ultimately too restricted.
Anyone remember this version by Climax before Mythic's version?
Warhammer online (Climax)
Wonder how that would have turned out instead?
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
I agree, but I'm not hoping for revival, just a total reboot.
The world needs a good Warhammer MMO. The IP is just so awesome, it's a shame Mythic didn't understand it at all. A multi-fraction PvP game set in The Old World could be really great, and it's too bad a whole generation of gamers will now associate the Warhammer IP with this trainwreck of a game.
Sure, it had its moments and I was pretty addicted to the RvR for a time. But it had so many serious design flaws and some really sloppy made content that it was doomed from the start - especially considered the ridiculous pre-launch hype.
Keep daydreaming.
Wishing a game to shut down just because you don't like is bellow low.
*heavy sigh* Knew it was coming, but still ****ing sucks to hear.
So much potential wasted; leave it to EA to squander the honor of such a prestigious IP. Creative Assembly has the rights for a new Fantasy title (iirc 1 game), but their track record with Empire TW and now Rome 2 TW doesn't bode well. At least 40k has the DoW franchise; boggles my mind how often companies **** up creating a game with the Warhammer name.
Could have held the game in development for just 2 more years and many of the problems faced at launched would have been resolved. Hell, even 1 additional year would had been great; but nope, EA had to push out the title because Mythic was loosing profits when they took them over. Overhype it and make the return on box sales. Then never give the players any real content update (really, you call LotD an expansion?!) and keep it at a 15$ subscription fee. It boils the blood.
I get the feeling that WAR pays the price for SWtOR's F2P conversation failure. ****ing ironic, since the rumor going around WAR was that our subscription profits went to SWtOR's abnormally high development cost.
P.S. - If I seem angry/ranting, I am and I love this IP so seeing it thrown away and pissed on irritates the **** out of me.