Quote of the Day
“This post made me visit WAR’s website. I just don’t get what they’re trying to do here. The latest news on the front page shows a date of 9/1. They also have a link to ‘Paul’s Video Blog’ which shows 2009 as the most recent update. They keep saying ‘WAR is alive and well’ but their website screams ‘The game is dead!’”
My thoughts exactly. It’s a really, really sad website.
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That anonymous poster’s real name…….Paul Barnett
I continue to read Werit’s blog, and the career changes to the Warrior Priest almost had me curious enough to try again. Then the armor imbalance issue blew up. I still have a game time card, but I don’t know if it will ever get used at this rate.
I recently tried the game again on the “forever free to play low levels” thing they got going. Loads of the classes are the most interesting twists on mechanics in any mmo i’ve tried (like the shaman healing), then I went to the site, considering to p2p, and well… Yea, anon poster hits the nail on the head on that one.
Yea, I have no idea why they are unable to update the front page. I know the web team is busy elsewhere, but still… it’s just a webpage. It shouldn’t take much resources to keep it somewhat up to date.
That plus Sterntaler’s post saying that their resources are spent on TOR.
Oh fun, but they just updated the herald advertising items in their webshop – which, of course, you have to pay for!
A P2P MMO with hardly any new content (patch 1.4 and LoTD – still just two content updates in a bit more than 2 years…), apparently no staff to update their website and they sell items in their shop on top of that… no, thank you. I rather spend my money on a game where I actually get regular content updates.
WAR’s staff isn’t only lent to SWTOR, but Mythic also have people developing at least two other games (one of which seems to be the new Ultima spinoff). So yeah, the resources left for WAR are really miniscule at this point, some would argue that they’re nowhere near the numbers needed to properly develop a game (hinting that it’s actually in “maintenance mode”).
Mythic has always struggled with their website, even back when it was getting semi-regular updates it was nothing special (the herald was never fully developed). Which is a real surprise since the DAoC has an amazing website with a fully working herald, and it dates back to when the game was released.
I’m guessing most of their web team has either been relocated or laid off shortly after the forum move to BioWare, as it seems that the website slowly died after that.
I have to say that I disagree with the above commenter, WAR would make an amazing P2P game, because of all the possibilites a smartly implemented microtransation would enable in the games development. At the moment I can’t see any other future for WAR, apart from the one already mentioned. Death a few months after SWTOR comes out.
The state of WARs website was one thing that always left me in a sad state. The Realm War page was always “almost” there, but fell further and further behind. It’s the one of the area of the game that I always thought felt neglected and under-used from the very inception.
I remember sending Andy Belford a PM many moons ago about the website, followed up by an email to some black hole of an inbox at EA. I doubt there even is a web team left. The site looks like it was intended for a much more profitable and actively developed game. Something simpler made with proper XHTML, CSS, and not much else would better suit the WAR we have and be much easier to maintain. Oh Well.
I have spent time in and out of WAR. Being an actual Warhammer tabletop gamer this seemed like a great idea for an MMO, the problem was that they tried to make DAOC2 and have a pure PvP game and just slapped the GW license onto it. If they’d have actually bothered to try and make a proper Warhammer game, or gone pure PvP without the PvE stuff then it may have been better but as it was the graphics are dated, the gameplay kinds gimpy and it gets really repetitive and quite boring once you get to T3. It’s a shame that they had such a potentially great IP and have squandered that opportunity.
I disagree. The problem is they didn’t make DAoC2, they made a number of design decisions that turned WAR into something wildly different from DAoC (2 sides, greater importance of gear, more pronounced level differences, no relic raids, etc…).
If they would have made DAoC2 with a GW slapped licence on it, I’m certain that the game would have done much better than WAR did.
And again, I disagree with you on the PvE vs PvP, repetitive gameplay and dated graphics complaints. There are far greater problems with the game and sadly you seem to have completely missed them.
@ZombiePirate
If you were bored and found it repetitive by tier3, modern MMOs (much less old-school ones) are not for you. As for the graphics, /agree with Blaq, LOVED the visuals of WAR. It was the never-ending bugs, and over two-years of play with no real new goals that finally drove me out. I get the itch every now and then to go back and play, because really, the PvP there is a TON of fun.