Well I can say now that WAR has been officially shit-canned.
Mythic was hit recently with about 80 layoffs reducing their development team by almost half. This news was rumored and confirmed earlier this week and personally, I’m thinking that WAR’s servers will be done sometime soon. The game itself never really held any appeal for me and I still stand by my statement that if they had released an MMO held in the Warhammer 40k universe that it would have been infinitely more successful than another supposed “WoW killer”.
To make matters worse for profits, you can now pretty much play WAR for free, forever. It seems that Mythic is trying everything they can to save face after the complete publicity shit-storm that went down during the early months of their release. I blame that British accented asshole in all those interviews and videos that seemed way too coked up to be talking in front of a camera.
There was a Warhammer 40k MMO in the works the last time I checked.
Yeah im pretty sure there is.
The first time I heard about WAR, I thought it would be in the 40k universe, and when I heard it wasn’t, I couldn’t understand why. It went from a game I would have been excited about, to just another Orc, goblin, human, bows arrows and axes game, and why would I play another one of those when WoW does everything I want in the same genera.
Its not even that the 40k universe is “better” than the fantasy one, although I think it is, but more that an mmo in the future hasn’t been done well yet (for me at least), and there is more epic proportions in space if they do it right.
the only link ive seen on the 40k mmo (cant remember were it was sorry) suggested it was “different from other mmos” something more like a RTS mmo, though considering the articale stated they were looking for a 2012 release its a long way off
I played WAR, and while in general a good game there was nothing “cool” in it, the mages didn’t have cool ‘blizzard’ style skills, the armor looked the same at lv 5 and 40(? max, forget) and the world pvp consisted completely of large groups AVOIDING each other and nabbing objective points