Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

By Brooke Pilley MMO reviews are a funny thing. Besides the fact that they're ripe for subjectivity and personal bias (like all reviews), they're also judging a type of game that is always changing. Maybe that's why Eurogamer does re-reviews. They originally scored Warhammer Online with an 8/10, calling i...

By Brooke Pilley Filed under: Fantasy, Patches, Warhammer Online, Opinion lt;<The old gear system? Big gear changes coming to WAR in patch 1.3 (part two) originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

By Gas Bandit(noreply@blogger.com) First, the live event was buggy and poorly planned. Part of it required every single person to pick up 2 crates. Each tier had its own location where the crates spawn, and that location was always in "contested" ORvR territory. So far so good. But here's where the problem starts... the location is a...

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) I have a shocking theory about why Age of Conan and Warhammer Online had such a low retention rate, losing most of their subscribers after a short time: These games simply weren't very good. Shocking, I'm telling you! I'm arriving at that conclusion from economic theory, particularly the...

By rss@youtube.com (weemancod) Just a review of Warhammer Online. This is a great game if you like pvp I highly recommend it. This game almost got me to quit wow but its not there yet. There are still some minor glitches that they need to fix to get there but that is to be expected as this game is pretty new still. If you have any quest...

In the notes below you'll see over 500 bug fixes, 10 plus pages of career balancing, numerous RvR improvements, UI improvements, continued building on our success with improving performance and server stability and a considerable review of our dungeon ...

By squigystardust Well it’s 19th September already! Warhammer Online (WAR), as you know is a MMORPG made by Mythic Entertainment and EA Games. Based on 25 Years of history from Warhammer, this game is just as exciting as Paul Barnett advertised it to be.

By spinks Electronic Arts (EA) announced yesterday that Warhammer Online had 300k active subscriptions at the end of last year. This was actually one of the high points of their earnings call. … another year older and deeper in debt. Electronic Arts (EA) announced yesterday that Warhamm

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Via Brokentoys comes the news that EA fessed up to the real Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning subscription numbers, and they are a lot lower than most people thought: Right now WAR has only 300k subscribers. Which isn't shabby in comparison to any other $15-a-month game except World of Wa...

By syncaine Patch 1.1.1 is out today for Warhammer Online, with some short but potentially very sweet notes. Once a player hits rank 40, the focus of the game goes (as intended) straight to the RvR campaign, with the ultimate goal of sacking the other realms capital. The major brick wall currently facing m...

By syncaine Patch 1.1.1 is out today for Warhammer Online, with some short but potentially very sweet notes. Once a player hits rank 40, the focus of the game goes (as intended) straight to the RvR campaign, with the ultimate goal of sacking the other realms capital. The major brick wall currently facing m...

By Keen This is something that has bothered me for a long time.  Several of us sit on Ventrilo almost every day and talk about how we would improve the reward system for Keep sieges in Warhammer Online - a system that also reaches into Fortress Sieges and City sieges with the PQ system.  Right now the [...]

By rss@youtube.com (WoWAfkBot) http://www.wowafk.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72:war-goblin-guide&catid=38:war-aoc-guides&Itemid=198 - Check out our review for the Warhammer Goblin Guide Goblin Guide is a complete Warhammer Online Mastery Guide Pack includes t...

I feel compelled to do another installment here on how Warhammer online is progressing a little passed the 60 day mark of going live. Those of you who have followed my writing on MMORPG.com and MMOCrunch may remember that I wrote my review of the game right before launch, and at the 30 day mark I...

By James Egan Some of us at Massively are fans of "Waaagh!", a Warhammer Online blog written by Syp. He recently put together a review of Warhammer Online's Tome of Knowledge, one month in. The Tome of Knowledge is one of the more interesting features we've seen in an MMO to date, and may well open new avenue...

By a714generation First off, I'd like you to meet Spazter.  Spazter is a level 26 Warrior Priest.  Certainly Mythic's staple in MMOs is their concept of Realm versus Realm (RvR).  A trademark they coined with the release Dark Age of Camelot back in 2001. Mythic actually takes the concept of RvR a little further w...

By Gas Bandit(noreply@blogger.com) Furthermore, Warhammer Online was designed from the ground up as a game where PvP, or rather, RvR, is the focus (as opposed to WoW which was entirely calibrated around PvE and continues to make that the primary focus of the game, all the way through the endgame). You can engage in RvR (Realm v...

This is issue one for me and a lot of the community at the moment. The entire premise of Warhammer Online is the war in the overworld. I don’t think anyone bought this game to do instanced battlegrounds, but at the present time they seem to be the most rewarding option in regards of using RvR to ad...

By rss@youtube.com (gamereactorTV) Petter M. is ready to give his verdict of Warhammer Online, the new online-roleplaying game from Mythic Entertainment. Is it at good as people hoped for, and can it challenge World of Warcraft? Press play to find out! Keywords: gamereactor tv grtv warhammer online the age of reckoning revi...

On November 13 me and many other MMORPG players will have to make a decision: Do we continue to play Warhammer Online, or do we go back to World of Warcraft and the new Wrath of the Lich King expansion? So somewhere in my head there is a little virtual decision gauge, which looks like this:As yo...

By rss@youtube.com (rockstar2k2) Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (officially abbreviated as WAR) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting. It was developed by Mythic Entertainment and simultaneously released in North America, Europe, Asia, Austr...

By Wilhelm2451 Warhammer Online is still new.  There is time to correct these errors.  I fear, however, that they tyranny of the Tome of Knowledge, one of the most overrated features of the game, and its format restrictions will prevent any meaningful changes when it comes to the quest log. There are a lot of...

By Anthony Gallegos Anyone who's heard me on Legendary Thread or the late GFW Radio knows that I'm a huge Warhammer fan. I'm not talking about the recently released Warhammer Online, though - I mean, the tabletop war game. I've spent hours upon hours reading various army codices, painting miniatures, and cons...

By Medeor With the release of our own Cody "Micajah" Bye's Warhammer Online First Impressions, the floodgates of video and print reviews have come spilling out. First there are the video clips. One review offers up a five out of five from G4 TV and then there is the always sun-glassed crew of Mythic bei...

By Michael Zenke As we now enter the second full week of Warhammer Online's live service, reviews of the Mythic Entertainment title are continuing to be released. One analysis in particular you might want to check out is X-Play's review of the game. They liked it quite a bit, citing Public Quests as a major im...

The other main innovation in combat is the fact that there is collision detection, so you can’t just walk through other players (friend or foe). This is very interesting, particularly in siege warfare, as placement thus becomes far more important – particularly for tanks.

Warhammer Online has piqued my interest, and I'll post a longer commentary on it tomorrow probably. But first, one particular minor feature caught me eye and brought back some memories of a discussion I had online with a friend recently.

By Mike Fahey Warhammer is a pretty big name right now. With the launch of Mythic's epic MMORPG Warhammer Online and previous successes with the Warhammer 40K setting in the PC real-time strategy market, it makes sense for a console game to take advantage of the name recognition. Thus have Black Hole Gam...

PvE quests are your normal run of the mill MMORPG quests, however if you don’t want to do any of them, don’t, you don’t have too.   Don’t like RvR, join a normal server and just play the normal PvE quests.  The best part of Warhammer Online is that it doesn’t force you to do anything you don’t want...

II. Player vs Player/Realm vs Realm III.  PvE / Grouping It’s obvious, but if you are a fan of PvE games, raiding instances, and the like, you will not enjoy Warhammer Online in the least.  There just isn’t enough PvE content to keep fans of item hunting and repeating bosses happy.

By Graev NOTE: This isn’t about Warhammer Online. Well, not much. I suppose it is time for another update on the state of the Graev. Several things have had my attention lately, such as Spore, Mercenaries 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Warhammer Online. I already discussed Mercs 2 and still enj...

By Ardwulf I am enjoying World RvR more than the scenarios, for reason I’m still in the process of pinning down. I’m sure I’ll talk about that at some point. I plan to keep doing it in Nordland until level 12, when I’ll turn into a chicken; hopefully as we push more characters into Tier 2 we’ll be up for an att...

By Graev Note: This is just a GRAEV update and isn’t about Warhammer Online, so just skip it if thats what you’re looking for. I’ve been pretty busy lately with a few things. Couple games, trying to come up with comic ideas, drawing said comic ideas, watching daytime TV, etc. You know, real important st...

By Michael Zenke Eurogamer (8/10): "Until it's been out in the wild a while, this extremely well-made and highly enjoyable MMO remains unproven. And it remains - until our first re-review, at least - one step short of true greatness."Kill Ten Rats (Buy): "If you would like a sequel to World of Warcraft with a...

By Ardwulf The standout feature of WAR is RvR; this is not something new, but it's a feature attractive enough to deserve a modern showcase, and WAR gives it that. The Tome of Knowledge is nice and the game’s biggest real innovation, Public Quests, are clever and fun, but neither is going to be a make-or...

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) PvE: Despite all the marketing hype praising WAR as a PvP game, WAR is a great PvE game. PvE fun might stop at the level cap, which is only 40. But for making alts and leveling them to the level cap without doing any content twice, WAR even beats WoW. You can level up at least 6 characters to 40 before...

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

By Gabriel Runfeldt Filed under: World of Warcraft, Game mechanics, Warhammer Online, PvE, Player ConsequencesIt's no secret that modern MMO design has changed drastically in the years following World of Warcraft. The secret of the game's success has been the topic of discussion for every gaming blog and...

By Alex Taldren I’m back from my week’s vacation and there have been a lot of developments in the gaming community.  Warhammer Online hype seems to be peaking and, from what I’ve read from mainstream sites and bloggers alike, it seems to be shaping up to be a good MMO.  I plan on playing in the Fileplanet open b...

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Probably the most acclaimed feature in all the post-NDA reports on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is public quests. Even the people who reported negatively on WAR usually had something nice to say about public quests. Pretty much everyone who tried public quests found them fun, and so...

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...

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...

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?

By Tobold(noreply@blogger.com) Tobold: Paul, you are creative director and lead designer for Mythic Entertainment's upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR). Is there any feature in WAR where you'd say, "this is mine, my idea, I thought of this"? Or is your job limited to having an influence on the ideas of othe...

By Rick I don't want to see any more WoW killer comments, or posts saying WAR ripped off WoW, or WoW ripped off the Warhammer IP before Mythic started developing the Warhammer IP, bla bla bla, yadda yadda. Mythic has their own design goals, and I think if you HAVE to directly compare it to any other MMO...

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...

By Tipa Mythic cuts four classes and four cities from Warhammer Online. Hellgate: London debuts to poor response. Pirates of the Burning Sea needed a better integration of its elements and some changes to pacing. Vanguard was released too early. Age of Conan has a bunch of bugs and its end game is not a...

By Keen I woke up this morning and went straight to the computer to find out what Mark Jacobs’ news was going to be regarding a few major announcements for Warhammer Online. He dropped several bombs on the community today, that’s for sure. Punkbuster

By Keen Public Quests are absolutely revolutionary. They’re providing players a whole new way of playing, rewarding, and progressing their characters through the game. Massively’s Warhammer Online coverage over the past few days has been unparalleled by any website out there. The informatio...

By Snafzg I had the fine privilege of being asked by Chip Mosher of BOOM! Studios to review Warhammer: Condemned by Fire #1 and provide my readers with a sneak-peak of the first 5 pages (below the review). If this book title doesn’t ring a bell, it’s the upcoming BOOM! release that contains a chance to w...