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Video: Warhammer Online beta: Shaman Open RVR part 1Original at truveo.com
• Tue, Apr 7
Here's some open RVR showing my Shaman in Praag, starting out perched on a great spot to heal and nuke from. We go back and forth with the Order ... www.truveo.com
Video: Darkfall Online - Run for the Hills - Beta FootageOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 18
By rss@youtube.com (afraidyet) http://www.afraidyet.net/forums/news/84708-darkfall-preview-part-i-combat.html I've always considered myself a competitive gamer, and I tend to keep my eyes on the beta horizon. For sometime now Sinister has been active beta testers and live subscribers to any game who catered to...
Video: Robotx - Bright Wizard - Warhammer Online PvP / RvROriginal at Google Video
• Thu, Sep 4
10 min - 2008-09-04 This is just a video i made during the EU closed beta of Warhammer Online. The video will hopefully give some insight into the rvr and pvp thats in WAR.
Video: Warhammer Online beta: Ironbreaker RVR part 1Original at Google Video
• Sat, Aug 30
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Video: Warhammer Online beta: MarauderOriginal at Google Video
• Sat, Aug 30
Added [TRANSLATED] Warhammer Online beta: Marauder [TRANSLATED] Warhammer Online beta: Marauder Check http://textwall.blogspot.com for more! Now for the sickest looking, twisted and m Check http://textwall.blogspot.com for more! Now for the sickest looking, twisted and mutated k...
Aika announces closed beta
Original at Massively
• Wed, Nov 4
By Seraphina Brennan Filed under: Betas, PvP, News items, Free-to-play If you're looking for some more RvR action outside of Warhammer Online, then you might want to take a look at Gala-Net's newest addition to their MMO lineup, Aika. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Why Aion Will Work, While WAR Did Not.
Original at aionicthoughts (WordPress)
• Thu, Jul 9
By naamah88 Being a former WAR player and beta tester, I saw first hand the fall of WAR. I saw a great company (Mythic), a great idea (the RvR concept) and a great world (the Warhammer world) fall into the depths of mediocre gameplay and design. It was disconcerting and, because I considered myself a Myt...
This is (AION) beta not Sparta (revisited)
Original at VirginWorlds MMO
• Mon, Jul 6
So what buzz-phrase has me hopping mad? What is it that has opened Fran's eyes? I am glad you asked. What has opened Fran's eyes is talking to Paul Barnett about how much hatred he has heaped on his shoulders by the gaming community as a Creative Director for Mythic. What has me hopping mad is the...
New Ultima add-on enters beta at Mythic
Original at Play.tm
• Fri, May 8
UK Warhammer Online creators Mythic are plotting a beta test for their next online offering, Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss, for which test applications are now open. Apparently, those bagging a place on the beta test will get the chance to check out the ...
Loading... Patching You In - Ten Ton Hammer
Original at Ten Ton Hammer Headlines
• Thu, Apr 16
By Ethec 1,060 - More patches take center stage & a fast-paced Free Realms beta giveaway!Loading... discusses the last two game updates in this already patch-heavy week with a look at Warhammer Online 1.2.1 and EVE Online Apocrypha 1.1. Plus, we have an exciting beta giveaway for Free... read more
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Taiwan Closed Beta This Month
Original at Gamers Hell
• Thu, Apr 2
Mythic Entertainment and Gigamedia have announced that the closed beta for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will begin on April 15th, 2009. As part of the closed beta launch, closed beta packs will be available at major retailers. ... Warhammer Closed Beta To Launch In Taiwan IncGamers.com
WAR Beta Coming to Taiwan
Original at Gamespy.com
• Thu, Apr 2
News comes in today from Mythic and Gigamedia which states that a closed beta test of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will start in Taiwan on April 15th. Gigamedia is the publisher of Mythic's popular MMORPG in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. ...
Patch: Gigamedia and Mythic Entertainment to Launch Taiwan Closed Beta ... - Business Wire
Original at businesswire.com
• Wed, Apr 1
Novice MMO players and veterans alike will appreciate the incredible depth and variety available in WAR. Based on the popular tabletop war game from Games Workshop, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning features revolutionary Realm vs. ... Glory of MMORPG: Warhammer Online SheKnows.com
WAR Exclusive Image 3
Original at The Greenskin
• Thu, Mar 12
By Snafzg Is Mythic Ready to Unleash the Orc Choppa? It seems so! I think every WAR blogger was a...Subscribe to DAOC = Get into WAR Beta? Interesting find in my quick browse over at the VN...My thoughts on the LotD/DF dungeon coming to WAR Please check out my latest Massively post on Nehekhara/Lands of... Rela...
Warhammer Online beta: Shaman lvl 31 RVR part 2Original at fr.truveo.com
• Thu, Feb 26
In part 2 I battle some more in Praag, but this time I make it a point to show you how much "Gork Sez Stop" can just completely own people. Then I ... fr.truveo.com
Age of Blogging (Week 2)
Original at The Greenskin
• Thu, Jan 15
By Snafzg Casual Chaos - Does Windows 7 Beta work with WAR? Find out here! High Magic - A man after my own heart: Roaming 6-man RvR ftw! Rainbow MMO - Are healers sadists or masochists or both? Warhammer Addons Reviewed - Is happy he got nominated for a Greeny! Who wouldn’t be, right!?
Hardcore Casual: Darkness Falls in Warhammer, full map inside!
Original at VirginWorlds MMO
• Tue, Dec 23
• 2 related articles
The idea of adding a Darkness Falls(DF)-like dungeon to Warhammer Online has been floating around since beta, and has even been hinted at by Mythic themselves. DF was a HUGE success in Dark Age of Camelot, and combined PvE and PvP perfectly. You went in to PvE, but you knew that at any time, a Pv...
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Warhammer's major problem, the players.
Original at syncaine (WordPress)
• Thu, Nov 20
By syncaine Warhammer is plagued by some rather terrible flaws, flaws that should have been tested in beta. The flaws have nothing to do with coding errors or graphical problems, but rather center around player actions and motivation. Warhammer Online’s biggest problem is the players are simply not...
Warhammer Online 1.0.5 patch notes live, Public Test server opened
Original at Massively
• Thu, Nov 6
By Michael Zenke Over on the official site for Warhammer Online, patch notes are now available for the latest big update. Patch 1.0.5 is not only be a nice big refresh for the game, but will also be the first which players can extensively test on a Beta realm with copied characters beforehand. This public test se...
Joystiq: Massively week in Review
Original at VirginWorlds MMO
• Tue, Oct 21
If you've been following this particular exchange you'll know the score, but let's recap: Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan just like turned around and said some stuff about Warhammer Online, about how he wasn't even in the Beta and stuff, and Mark Jacobs was like whoa, and he totally turned around...
Massively week in Review
Original at Joystiq
• Tue, Oct 21
By Joystiq Staff If you've been following this particular exchange you'll know the score, but let's recap: Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan just like turned around and said some stuff about Warhammer Online, about how he wasn't even in the Beta and stuff, and Mark Jacobs was like whoa, and he totally turned around...
Warhammer Online and World of Warcraft Designers Exchange Criticisms
Original at 1up.com
• Thu, Oct 16
By Chris Pereira During BlizzCon, Multiplayer asked World of Warcraft lead designer Jeff Kaplan if Blizzard staff had tried sneaking into the WAR beta. Kaplan says that he tried getting in, but there was nothing sneaky about it; after becoming friends with some of the guys from Mythic, Kaplan offered Wra...
Massively week in Review
Original at Joystiq
• Mon, Oct 13
By Joystiq Staff It seems like the forces of Order and Destruction have been busy recruiting, because Gamasutra is reporting that Warhammer Online is now partying hard at 750,000 subscribers strong. Champions Online announces Closed Beta signups
Warhammer Online: Patch 1.01
Original at Die Wilde Jagd
• Thu, Oct 2
By Jonas M Luster Warhammer is the new MMO on the block, and listening to/learning from its lauch and beta process was a great experience. As the game becomes more and more a mainstream game, I might meander off, but for the time being … ...
More freaks than elves, what happened to the NE Huntard kiddies?
Original at syncaine (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 23
By syncaine During the Warhammer Online beta, each poll showed Destruction being more popular than Order, sometimes vastly more popular. These numbers were always taken with a grain of salt, with the common response of "it's beta, the casuals don't play beta, and the hardcore like evil". We all thoug...
Patch: Warhammer Online: Beta Update
Original at Choicecomics.net
• Fri, Sep 12
• 5 related articles
By WadeTheFade I just wanted to drop in and update the review I did on Warhammer Online: Preview Weekend. Every issue that I mentioned was resolved in the latest Beta Patch. I have no complaints so far, and it really looks like Mythic Entertainment is ...
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Patch: Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: Beta 4.1.1 Producer’s Letter ...
Original at Breaking News from Curse
• Thu, Sep 11
By Zyuu (Zyuu) Today Mythic Entertainment posted a producer's letter about the Warhammer Online Open Beta. You can also check out the full patch notes for the 4.1.1 update below. Beta 4.1.1 Producer’s Letter – Open Beta. Hello Everyone, ...
Massively: Notes for Warhammer Beta patch 4.1.1
Original at VirginWorlds MMO
• Thu, Sep 11
The newest patch to the Warhammer Online open beta is out, with servers still down and slated to come back up around 12:30 EDT. Unlike the preview+ patch (4.1) these notes are all free and clear. As long as you're waiting for your Waagh ...
Warhammer Beta Review With Video
Original at Gameriot.com
• Wed, Sep 10
By amitlu The next thing a player will notice, aside from the standard inventory and character information, is the Tome of Knowledge. A hallmark of the Warhammer Online experience, it contains all the information required to successfully navigate ...
A lesson in bad customer relations management - the European W:AR open beta launchOriginal at The Greenskin
• Tue, Sep 9
By Snafzg And so, on the 7th of September, the open beta was launched. In the US no big problems arose. The American registration site handled all traffic and the beta test simply started. Not so in Europe. It went so far as to having Mark Jacobs of Mythic feeling the need to involve himself in the debacle an...
A WoW player’s guide to Warhammer Online
Original at WoWFeeds.Com
• Tue, Sep 9
Just in […] Please visit Mike Schramm to read the complete post. Related Posts. Warhammer Online: Your Chance To Win A Beta Key! Warhammer Online: Your Chance To Win A Beta Keys! EA CEO: Warhammer won’t rival WoW.
Warhammer, what is it good for?
Original at kinless (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 9
By Kinless 28 years later, Warhammer, however, gives some fair first impressions. So I pre-ordered Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning. Why? No WoW beta invite to mess around with the expansion content? (Not that I truly wanted to do that anyway.) No, that's not the reason.
Warhammer Online: 47000 concurrent open beta players
Original at ferv0r (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 9
By ferv0r Official statements about server status and various updates can be found at the Warhammer Online Herald (an official Mythic website). Mythic posted a status report regarding the first day of open beta on the VN Boards. ...
Warhammer Online: My 2nd day of open beta was annoying
Original at ferv0r (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 9
• 2 related articles
By ferv0r WAR is not a bad game. By current MMORPG standards, it's actually a good game. It is a generic MMORPG with a couple new features, based on a popular IP. It completely failed to grab my attention (which is in sharp contrast to Age of Conan, which was really appealing to me from the very beginnin...
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Warhammer Online: My 2nd day of open beta was annoying
Original at ferv0r (WordPress)
• Tue, Sep 9
By ferv0r Perhaps it’s because I spent so much time in battlegrounds in WoW, but I’m already bored with the low level RvR scenarios. I usually love PvP and I was really surprised to find myself not wanting to queue up for another scenario. ...
Patch: Massively: What you might have missed in the new Warhammer Beta!
Original at VirginWorlds MMO
• Mon, Sep 8
the full patch notes for Warhammer Online Beta Patch 4.1 are under NDA. That said, there is just a ton of new stuff that you might have missed between the end of the last Beta cycle and now. We're not going to temp Mythic's ire by ...
Opinion: Warhammer Online: My first day of open beta was boring
Original at ferv0r (WordPress)
• Sun, Sep 7
By ferv0r Quests and Public Quests Realm versus Realm Not much else to say. Oh, one thing I do highly appreciate is the fact that you get a reasonable amount of PvE experience for doing PvP. First, a couple disclaimers. I only played to level 4 on a few characters. I also realize that t
Mythic flings wide the gates of the Warhammer Online open beta
Original at Joystiq
• Sun, Sep 7
By Griffin McElroy This race-rolling dilemma will be cordially presented to you by Mythic's Warhammer Online -- the open beta for which launched earlier this morning. Members of the previous stages of the closed beta and those who have pre-ordered the ...
Warhammer Online Open beta... opens! New Video
Original at Classy Gamer
• Sun, Sep 7
By Giuseppe Nelva To celebrate the beginning of open beta (welcome to all the new recruits, have fun mates :D) for Warhammer Online, I made a new video with a collection of scenes from open RvR. Don't push too much in the login queues and remember that ...
Warhammer Online Beta Forums
Original at World's best timepass website, Technologies
• Sun, Sep 7
By vijaymang@yahoo.com the massively multi-line role-playing the market very well. Today, Mythic Entertainment, said that in an open beta-test of its dark fantasy MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at the beginning of September 7th. read more.
Massively: The Warhammer Online open beta test has begun
Original at VirginWorlds MMO
• Sun, Sep 7
Mythic Entertainment just opened the virtual gates for the Warhammer Online open beta test. After fans spent half the morning expressing their impatience and Rickrolling one another on the game's various forums, ...
Opinion: WoW is a Dirty Word
Original at Kotaku
• Sat, Sep 6
By Maggie Greene Most of the Rock, Paper, Shotgun guys recently posted their thoughts on the Warhammer Online closed beta; they were descended upon by WAR supporters (some rabid, some a little more even-tempered) for drawing more comparisons between WoW and WAR. After this little display of MMO chest th...
Warhammer Online Review
Original at PonderEthereal
• Sat, Sep 6
By Carrie This weekend, Mythic Entertainment starts to open it’s servers for Warhammer Online - first with limited, early play and finally next week with open play. I had the opportunity to participate in the closed beta of Warhammer Online. ...
Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Preview Weekend Plus
Original at MMORPG.COM
• Fri, Sep 5
By news@mmorpg.com With the open beta for Warhammer Online starting on Sunday September 7th, Mythic has announced another preview weekend for participants of the previous preview. The Preview Weekend Plus starts today.
Warhammer Online Open Beta, Launch, and the hype.
Original at syncaine (WordPress)
• Wed, Sep 3
By syncaine The Warhammer Online open beta is just around the corner, and shortly after Warhammer will finally go live. While the game is by no means ‘finished’ or ‘perfect’, it’s actually in far better shape than what most people saw during the preview weekend.
ChaosCast Episode #6
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Sun, Aug 31
By Keen As promised when we released Episode #5 we have come back quickly with another episode of ChaosCast! We, the troublesome trio of WAR Bloggers (Keen, Snfzg, and Syp), give you our full-blown details of the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta and have a lengthy round-table discussio...
Keen’s WAR Preview Weekend Impressions Part 2
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Fri, Aug 29
By Keen Tonight is the end of the Warhammer Online Preview Weekend and I find myself frantically getting as much play time in as possible. I’m unsure whether or not this is the end of the ‘closed beta’ phase entirely or if they’ll allow those of us testing to continue playing. Elder Testers (which I [...]
Keen’s WAR Beta Impressions from the Preview Weekend
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Fri, Aug 29
By Keen The preview weekend for Warhammer Online began yesterday. This marks the beginning of the end for the beta phase of development for all but maybe the Elder Testers. While I am considered an “Elder Tester”, most everything tested there is classified and done on test servers. Unless they lift...
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Preview Weekend opens
Original at MMORPG blog
• Thu, Aug 21
- Aug 21, 2008 This event is the "climactic conclusion" to the Closed Beta, and over 100 thousand warriors will be lucky enough to try out firsthand the Realm vs. Realm ...
Mastery Interface and Dye Sampling Videos
Original at The Greenskin
• Thu, Aug 21
By Snafzg I can’t wait for our guild to decide on a colour scheme, emblem, and heraldry. This stuff is totally awesome! Alas, we come to my final two beta videos for Warhammer Online. I will continue to work on more in the future, but these are the last you can expect for about a week. Mastery Interface The m...
Opinion: Warhammer Online Beta Questions and Answers
Original at The Greenskin
• Thu, Aug 21
By Snafzg Thanks for submitting all your questions! You’ve definitely kept me busy these past weeks! This has been filed under “Game Speculation” because we’re technically still in beta and things could change! Let’s get right down to it! Here are your questions about Warhammer Online beta: Gu...
WAR Open Beta starts Sept. 7th - NDA down TOMORROW!
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Wed, Aug 20
By Keen EA announced that the Warhammer Online beta begins September 7th which came as a slight surprise to me. I was expecting Open Beta to arrive around the time that the NDA was ‘loosely’ scheduled to drop. At E3 Mythic made it really clear that the NDA would be dropping around the 15th [...]
Keen’s Warhammer Online Beta Impressions Part 1
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Wed, Aug 20
By Keen Leveling up in WAR is awesome. You have SO MANY choices. You can exclusively quest ala WoW or mix in some RvR ala DAOC or exclusively RvR. You can mix in Scenarios, Open-world RvR, PQ’s, dungeons, grinding, normal quests, and level well. The leveling in WAR feels standard to me. There are 40 level...
Keen’s Warhammer Online Beta Impressions Part 2
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Wed, Aug 20
By Keen The cities have everything you could want. Quests (tons), shops (tons), banks (more than one), Auction Houses, DUNGEONS, Tome unlocks, legendary locations from Warhammer Lore like the Blowhole and Bright Wizard College tower thingy, and more.
Opinion: Warhammer Online - Analyzing the Response
Original at Random Battle
• Tue, Aug 19
By Cameron Sorden I’m not going to give you my long-winded impression of Warhammer Online because 1) I didn’t play it long enough in beta for a proper review, and 2) everyone on the internet has been exploding with that information since the NDA belatedly dropped this morning. I suggest you hit any one (or all...
Beta Impressions Part 2 (Specific Positives and Negatives)Original at The Greenskin
• Tue, Aug 19
By Snafzg I have broken down my list of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta impressions by positives and negatives to keep things simple and provide you with a balanced (and biased) point of view (it is my blog, right?). Everything is summed up in the conclusion paragraph.
Review of Warhammer Online Beta
Original at bookofgrudges (WordPress)
• Tue, Aug 19
By spinks Healers in particular are quickly singled out and have very few defenses other than healing themselves. I think this will be less of an issue once players learn how to work better with collision detection and tanks. 9. What was the beta experience like?
Review of Warhammer Online Beta
Original at bookofgrudges (WordPress)
• Tue, Aug 19
By spinks And if there’s one thing I learned from playing the beta, it is that a lot of other beta testers have been waiting years for a new MMO which integrates RvR (Mythic’s more sociable version of PvP) and PvE because people were taking part ...
Greenskins in Beta - My ImpressionsOriginal at The Greenskin
• Tue, Aug 19
By Snafzg I may also pick up a craft just for fun. I haven’t really done that in an MMORPG before either. Scavenging and… Talisman Making perhaps. Just to be different! Over the course of my Warhammer Online beta journey, I managed to play each of the greenskin careers in several different tiers. I’ve pla...
Warhammer Online Announces Open Beta Dates
Original at Escapist Magazine
• Mon, Aug 18
NC - Aug 18, 2008 More information about Mythic's upcoming Warhammer Online and getting into the open beta phase can be found at warhammeronline.com.
September 7, 2008 - Open Beta / Unknown - NDA?
Original at The Greenskin
• Mon, Aug 18
By Snafzg Massively just reported that open beta for Mythic Entertainment’s highly anticipated Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will begin on September 7, 2008. That date puts open beta three weeks from now and 11 days before release, which pretty much confirms what Mythic has said all along: B...
Massively: WAR NDA (probably) ends next week, CE pre-orders to ...
Original at VirginWorlds MMO
• Thu, Aug 7
Mythic's Mark Jacobs wrote a post-announcement update on the Vault Network boards today. The purpose of the post was to clarify some of the details about the release date, pre-orders, and the beta test. Warhammer Online fans should ...
WAR NDA (probably) ends next week, CE pre-orders to join closed beta
Original at MMO Clerks
• Thu, Aug 7
Mythic’s Mark Jacobs wrote a post-announcement update on the Vault Network boards today. The purpose of the post was to clarify some of the details about the release date, pre-orders, and the beta test. Warhammer Online fans should ...
Warhammer Online Beta Q&A’s!
Original at The Greenskin
• Mon, Jul 28
By Snafzg Do you have any questions about Warhammer Online beta? Post the questions here and I’ll be sure to answer them once the NDA drops! Feel free to ask about anything, but know that so far my main area of expertise (if you can even call it that) is greenskins. Shocking given the title of this blog, I...
Opinion: Remember, Beta is for Chucking
Original at Keen and Graev's Gaming
• Sat, Jul 12
By Keen There have been dozens of known additions and changes to Warhammer Online over the past two months alone. Many players are concerned that the multitude of changes being made to the game in the 11th hour could possibly lead to either another delay or, in a worst case scenario, classes being l...
Beta Leaks
Original at Gamer
• Sat, Apr 19
By Heartless_ There is a certain website that has sprung up recently dedicated to anything and everything that is beta leaking for MMOs. The site features NDA-breaking leaks for Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, and other titles. The main focus of the site is finding "beta leakers" and allowing them to pos...
This month's Warhammer Online Beta Diary: Dwarf love
Original at MMORPG blog
• Sun, Feb 17
By Sally B. In this month's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Beta Journal by EA Mythic, a beta tester relates unexpected, newfound love towards the diminutive race. The unnamed WAR player recounts how he favored other races, then quite suddenly ...
Warhammer Online hands-on
Original at Massively
• Fri, Nov 2
By Barb Dybwad The beta may be closed now, but we were lucky enough to get our mitts on Warhammer Online at EA's booth at E for All recently. We were only able to access lowbie characters and starting area content, so unfortunately weren't able to experience some of the juicier RvR content that awaits chara...
Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Preview Weekend Plus on ...
Original at MMOz
• Fri, Sep 5
By RSS Feed Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Preview Weekend Plus on MMORPG.com With the open beta for Warhammer Online starting on Sunday September 7th, Mythic has announced another preview weekend for participants of the previous preview. ...
The CrossRoads :: RE: EA to release Warhammer Online: Age of ...
Original at palomides.net
• Fri, Aug 15
By Parsalin Author: Parsalin Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:13 pm (GMT -5) So where are you folks, been in beta for a while now and i haven't seen anyone on the old stratics channel.
The CrossRoads :: RE: EA to release Warhammer Online: Age of ...
Original at palomides.net
• Fri, Aug 15
By Namoric Ardan wrote: Alrighty, does anyone know of a link where I can start to download this client? Direct2Drive says it isn't available until Sept 18 and I know that with the pre-order I'm supposed to get into the open beta. ...