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July 3, 2008
Story of the Week: Guild Beta Begins
- It was an announcement that was heard ’round the world… of guild communities. The very, very long-awaited guild beta was pronounced to start in July, with beta keys flying every which way to various guilds who applied. And yet… and yet Chrono Chaos was overlooked. WE SHALL NOT BE SLIGHTED!
Beta Ticker:
- 752,553 (+8,950 from last week)
Quotes of the Week:
- “I can’t say why but believe the hype for WAR. I’ve heard from plenty of trusted people that this game’s on a solid bee-line to success. Trusted by me anyway.” ~ JoBildo
- “In truth, MMOG developers really haven’t seen anything comparable to this situation since the genre really began hitting its stride in early 2000. Even the competition between EverQuest II and the original release of WoW isn’t comparable.” ~ TTH on the WAR vs. WoW launch
New Sites & Blogs:
From EA Mythic:
Articles & Essays:
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun has yet another wrapup of the Richard Bartle thingamajigger… can we stop talking about this already?
- (If not… here’s some more from Heartless Gamer)
- Hardcore Casual helps us to avoid MMO burnout with liberal doses of cream.
- Arbitrary wonders if we bloggers should — or will — identify ourselves in game or not. Just to be on the safe side: kill anyone named “Syp”. Name-stealers, all!
- The Greenskin has bad news of a possible delay… for the Brits!
- Wrenn boils down all women in MMOs as Legit, Predators or Sl*ts. Charming!
- War Noob finds that Amazon.com is a great place to recruit for guilds.
- Werit wears a worry. It’s a small worry.
- RadarX attempts to forsee what “Coming Attractions” WAR might bring.
- Keen does a bit of analyzing the June newsletter.
- A Wall of Text picks apart — and this is true — Jeff Hickman’s spasms.
- Brotik doesn’t let a little “hasn’t actually played the game yet or gotten solid reports” stop him — he knows who’s going to be nerfed come release!
- The July newsletter grab bag will cover the Magus career, so if you have questions you’d like answered regarding the Magus, drop them in this Warhammer Vault forum thread.
- CyberVic analyzes the video Paul shot concerning creature animation.
- War Noob asks, “When the poopie hits the fan, who do you want at your side?”
- He also likes the music featured in a recent WAR video.
- JoBildo muses on what class he’s going to play.
- Massively thinks that WAR is looking much nicer — graphics-wise, that is.
- /random doesn’t think level discrepancy will be as big of an issue in WAR due to the end game.
- Scribbles of the Dark Lich does a bit of June newsletter digesting of his own.
- WAR is worth waiting for, Scribbles thinks.
- “WAR – A PvPer’s Dream?” at Word of Shadow looks past the hype train to the rich, gooey center of WAR.
- “How Players Change Over Time” is a cold, hard look at genetic mutation at Book of Grudges.
- Can good sportsmanship even exist in online games today? Massively has a great article about this subject.
- The Order Strikes Back Again at the White Tower, this time slapping dem White Lions around.
- MMOverdose looks at the calm before the storm. This is calm?
- Garthilk at WHA gives us an in-depth look at the Shaman career, including skills!
- Werit’s imagined up a pretty detailed and believable expansion pack for WAR.
- Thallian remains unconvinced why he should care about WAR.
- The Greenskin compares and contrasts expansion policy between WoW and WAR.
- Brotik is giddy with anticipation!
- War Noob is concerned about class homogenization in WAR… will it happen?
- When you go visiting a new country — or MMO — do you want to be an ignorant tourist. Heck ya!
- Snafzg reminds us of an important cautionary tale via Mythic’s Trials of Atlantis expansion.
- War Noob wonders how fast people will hit level 40 or renown 80. I wonder if we’ll start referring to ourselves as a 38/20 Goblin Shaman.
- It’s gear vs. skill time at the White Tower: Part 1 and Part 2.
- Some jerk got interviewed over at Warhammer Alliance. Pah.
- Would you kindly vote on a WAR mousepad design for Mythic? (Bioshock fans, that’s for you!)
- WAR-JOL spends some time looking at zergs in PvP and the ramifications for WAR.
- “WAR: Behind The Career System Part 2” at MMORPG interviews Adam Gershowitz about career balancing.
- Follow that up with a swig from A Wall of Text, who loves the taunting feature.
- Massively’s found a WHA poll of potential players’ ages to be of particular fascination.
- Book of Grudges pulls for the underdog… classes, that is.
- War Noob frets about Warhammer Online’s Narrow Release Window, which is responded to by Bloghammer.
- Massively takes a look at Warhammer’s tabletop Order classes to see how they transitioned into WAR.
- Book of Grudges looks at WAR’s tactical PvP situation.
- TTH marks it as the fight of the year: WAR vs. WoW launch. Who will survive?
- The Greenskin presents another always-fascinating Forum Watch!
- The Cogworks wonders if Mythic will host a MythiCon, or something similar, after WAR releases.
- “Career Smackdown: Marauder vs. Shadow Warrior” at War Noob!
- Werit thinks the White Lion is just a weak little pussycat after all…
- The Greenskin brings you 50 Tidbits Straight From The Mouth of Josh Dresher.
- Keen wants his PvE, and he wants it NOW, or ELSE!
- GameSpot’s Pre-E3 feature mentons WAR as one of the most anticipated games of 2008.
- 1UP does a quick little hands-on preview.
- Apparently I have TEH POWAH to make a poor guy change his blog name. Sorry Vic!
Videos & Podcasts:
Fun & Games:
Posted in Da Newz | Tagged career, comic, comicon, delay, graphics, guild beta, identity, newsletter, podcast, pvp, shaman, white lion | 6 Comments »
June 19, 2008
Story of the Week: Baltimore Games Day 2008
- A little bit of the old, a little bit of the new: this was the mantra of the devs who came to the Games Day convention, parceling out a few new snippets of info (10 character slots! population caps! expansion in the works!) and regurgitating a lot of older stuff. Many visitors noted that 8 of the classes were unavailable to play on the show floor, including the elusive Black Guard.
Beta Ticker:
- 736,315
- +7,469 from last week
Quote of the Week:
- “Paul runs on love, kindness, and the blood of many elves!” ~ Mythic rep
New WAR Sites & Blogs:
From EA Mythic:
Misc. News:
Podcasts:
Articles & Commentary:
- Hardcore Casual deduces: we need WAR already!
- Keen’s Korner: Which class looks the most appealing? It’s a classy piece.
- Wrenn’s take on Warhammer’s graphics, over at Warhammer Peaceniks.
- War Noob asks, “…but what if WAR gets terrible reviews?” Will you still play?
- TTH has organized all their zone overviews on one handy page!
- “By the Gods!” at Warhammer Gaming Scene covers the major deities of WAR.
- “WAR for the Win” at Game Zig replies to my “How WAR Can Win” article — does he agree?
- Book of Grudges digs around in the whole “no official WAR forums” pile. Stinky!
- “MMORPG Burnout and… Anti-Burnout?” at The Greenskin gives us a lovely new gamer definition to memorize.
- Snafzg penned a follow-up, second draft analysis of the recent WHA what-class-will-you-play poll. Great reading, check it out.
- Champions of Stuff throws their hat into the ring as to release and beta speculation.
- Werit (heaven help you if you mispronounce that as “Wart”) looks at WAR’s ability for a character to level up via PvPing.
- How can you sex up the Hammerer? Book of Grudges has some kinky ideas.
- Order of Destruction wants Mythic to get a commercial out on TV, ASAP!
- Svoald comes up with a few WAR conspiracy theories. I think WAR shot JFK, after reading this.
- /random looks at how we can build a Warhammer server community.
- Dreaming a fantastic dream, The Cogworks thunks up fun ways for WAR to make alt leveling more enjoyable.
- Book of Grudges has some nice Baltimore GamesDay review quotes and info tidbits.
- Read a lengthy GamesDay review at Alpha Guild.
- More Games Day wrap-up at Only-WAR.
- “Some Pretty Good Reasons Why Warhammer Looks Like It Might Be Awesome.”
- Book of Grudges debate whether a guy’s manhood is threatened by playing a Witch Elf.
- Ten Ton Hammer’s started an Orc screenshot gallery — see how they’ve changed over time!
- Khaos chooses an army (part 3). Part 3 of what? I feel like I’m loading a computer game with 15 old 5 1/4″ floppy disks.
- War Noob asks, “Should all classes move at the same speed?” Personally, I’m hoping to crawl everywhere. Maybe skip.
- Keen examines the server queues hubbub.
- “How to take criticism (from a pro)” reexamines the whole PC Gamer UK article in a new light, responding to this blog post by the author.
- Here I thought I was in Detroit that weekend…
- Werit looks at DAoC to speculate as to what incentives WAR might feature in getting people to play the underdog faction.
- The White Tower examines Destruction’s apparent domination in the gamer mindset.
- “Early Access? Bring it on!” Book of Grudges declares.
- Only-WAR goes to Games Day 2008 and brings back a personal tale of love and laughter.
- Bo from The Greenskin looks at the graphical style of different MMOs — and why some connect.
- Wrenn looks at AoC and speculates how it might affect WAR.
- War Noob looks at the three most popular WAR forums, and explains why you should care.
- How incredible, exactly, will WAR’s end game RvR be? WAR Gaming Scene reports.
- War Noob doesn’t want WAR to be as popular as WoW, and he has good reasons for it.
- “Can Warhammer Online kill the powerleveler?” Honestly? I don’t think so.
- WAR City Sieges FAQ at TTH
- Tobold looks at the server population issue and decides nobody can play.
- Hardcore Casual says “RELAX!” about server population queues
- TTH’s Top Ten Insights from Games Day 2008.
- Another convert — Gordo is joining the WAR side of the force!
- CyberVic analyzes the Zealot gameplay video from Games Day 2008.
- Book of Grudges asks, “Do we really need different server rulesets?” I, for one, would like to see a banana ruleset.
- Gear v. Skill. Who will win? Who will get the girl, and who will cry themselves to sleep at night on their huge pilla?
- JeuxOnline looks at how WAR might distinguish itself from the rest of the MMO pack.
- Order Strikes Back: Swordmasters of Hoeth. About darn tootin’ time!
- One word: ZERGHAMMER!
- TTH looks at how the human race has evolved in the past year (in WAR, of course).
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Videos:
Fun & Games:
Posted in Da Newz | Tagged balance, comic, fluff, forums, gmaes day, graphics, play.com, podcast, population, rule sets, video, zealot | 11 Comments »
May 15, 2008
Beta Ticker: 692,706 (+7,821 from last week)
Quote of the Week: “The best way to look at it is that Warhammer is Batman.” ~ Josh Drescher
Story of the Week: Oddly enough, the biggest story about WAR this week wasn’t about WAR at all — but instead, the blitz of World of Warcraft expansion info that was suddenly thrown all over the place. Many Warhammer fans are nervously chewing their nails at the shift in spotlight (and unrestrained speculation about the supposed fall head-to-head battle of the two titles), but Massively actually thinks WoW is a positive factor in the future success of WAR. In any case, a clash between these two titles looks to happen this fall, as Vivendi confirmed that Wrath is “anticipated to be released in the second half of 2008.”
In other news:
Warhammer Geek reports that a new German online magazine, Frontline, looks to be fans of Warhammer Online — check it out if you speak Germaneze.- In the mood for a few good men… er, videos? Warhammer Vault points us toward Warhammer-Portal for some Warhammer-Videos.
- The Greenskin reports that EA bought out Rupture. What does that mean for WAR? Snafzg speculates that the technology might be used to help extend the game experience beyond the game itself — as in social networking.
- GamesIndustry.biz gives us a sneak peak at an interview with Josh Drescher, including the revelation that the Mythic team has at least five years of content and leveling mapped out.
- Speaking of interviews with Josh, bit-tech.net has a pretty cool chat with the man about taking on World of Warcraft and how WAR is like Batman (among other topics).
- Action Trip’s second WAR Progress Report has a great overview of what WAR’s been up to, and what it’ll offer the average player.
- With all the hubbub over EA using DRM in its upcoming games, Mark Jacobs popped onto the VN boards to assure us that WAR will not use DRM (which isn’t really needed in MMOs anyway). Wow, that’s a lot of acronyms.
- Need a little Capital Cities RvR in your diet? Warhammer Vault’s got you covered.
- TTH muses on the promise by WAR’s devs to make the game viable for solo players as well as groupers.
- Mythos has announced at least five years of… something… more planned, and Keen’s all over the analysis.
- Or you could just take the word from the horse’s (the horse here being Josh Drescher) mouth.
- That Videogame Blog has a massive hands-on preview of Warhammer Online — cool info in here about gear and mounts, if you’ve been searching for tibits on those.
- JeuxOnline does us proud by translating an older French article of theirs mulling over the upcoming WAR beta/release/NDA dates. There’s a really handy chart in here too — check it out!
- Warhammer Conflict Wiki would like you to sample their wares by reading up on a dude named Malekith. We think he’s a baker.
- Another week, another awesome wallpaper from Wallhammer Vault (wait… Wallhammer?): The Marauder!
- Warhammer Conflict would like to invite you to peruse and participate in one of its famed Focus Discussions!
- The Greenskin brings a drink of water to the parched soul with his seventh webcomic, “There’s Nothing To Fear”
- Tobold wonders “Will Order or Chaos Prevail in WAR?”
- Warhammer Geek parodies Pinball Wizard with their WAR-themed tune “Witch Elf Woman”
- Want to give your cellphone or MP3 player a bit of Warhammer love? The Greenskin reports that WAR wallpaper for these devices are now available!
- With all the new Lich King info, doom ‘n gloom pronouncement for WAR’s future have been stirred anew. West Karana declares that she will “sit this one out” when it comes to this year’s major MMOs.
- QJ.net takes a brief, insightful look at the Zealot career.
- This is a little old, but this YouTube clip of Dwarf WAR music is… awesome. Pure awesome.
- JeuxOnline has a funny little article wondering about how you can cement your reputation as a “legend” in the upcoming WAR.
- How much will WAR’s graphics affect (good or bad) its upcoming release? Keen compares and contrasts with other MMOs.
- Making me think of the old SAT questions, Tobold posits “AoC is to WAR as EQ2 is to WoW”
- On the WHA forums, Iain Compton straightened out a few facts about the timing of the guild beta, open beta and NDA liftage.
- Keen reports that WAR’s graphics are definitely showing some polish, which I suppose is a “good thing”
- EA Mythic has announced Warhammer Online: The Official Drink. Cheers!
- MTV tries to be convinced by Mythic to make WAR their first MMO — yeah, we SO want those guys playing with us. Because they keep it real.
- Thought we’d go another week without mentioning Greenskin’s Forum Watch? Think again!
- IGN gives Warhammer Online a progress report, and its good enough to avoid a spanking by the parents.
- 1Up’s done their own hands-on WAR play, and have the stones to share it with you personally.
- You know you want to drool right now, so check out these brand new screenies here at VE3D!
- During the Spring Press Event, GameSpot got their grubby little mitts on WAR and molested it until it gave up the literary goodies. I’m kinda creeped out by the previous sentence, even though I wrote it.
- The Warhammer comic is finally on newstands, according to this unnamed source.
- Warhammer Geek’s started to offer exclusive wallpapers, and you can snag the first two here.
- GameSpy has a brand new article looking into WAR’s newbie zones, and it’s a fun read! After you’re done with that, Keen’s got a bit of follow-up commentary on the piece.
- Josh Dresher gave us a brief summary of the EA Games Spring Break, whetting our appetite for more info in the near future.
- Josh Drescher did another interview (the man is a MACHINE), this time with GamesIndustry.biz entitled, simply, “Warhammer Time!”
- Wikis are all the rage these days, it seems, and Warhammer Geek’s launched the fourth (I think) WAR-related wiki. Which one will become the standard? Anyway, you can read there announcement here, and check out (and contribute to) the new Warhammer Geek Wiki here.
- Warhammer Geek’s posted four motivation-style wallpapers (I particularly enjoy the squig one).
- Do you want to write about WAR but don’t want to have to hassle with your own blog/site? Warhammer Gamers is hiring (“hiring” being a loose term — don’t think there’s pay involved) new writers to the staff. Go apply today!
- Finally, The Secret Life of Mobs has a new WAR comic this week — “No More Beercraft!”
Posted in Da Newz | Tagged batman, capital cities, chaos, comic, drm, forum watch, graphics, interview, josh drescher, liquor, malekith, mark jacobs, maurauder, mounts, music, nda, order, parody, solo, starting zones, Videos, wallpaper, wiki, world of warcraft, zealot | 2 Comments »
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