General Discussion

Recently, Managing Editor Jon Wood had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Davis (Deputy Content Director) and Steve Perkins (Director) to talk about Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. In this first part of a two-part interview, Wood talks to Davis and Perkins about the WAR IP, beta, innovations and more.

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Davis and Steve Perkins from EA Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Mark is a Deputy Content Director on the project, and Steve is serving as a Director.

During the interview, we talked about a number of different things. Today, in this article, I am going to talk about some of the questions that I asked about the game, many of which came directly from our forums here at MMORPG.com. In the next part of this article, I am going to look at the starting zones and quests for the Dwarfs and the Greenskins.

IP Questions

The first few questions that I asked were asked for clarification, starting with the exact license that they have. We all know and can see the influences that the miniatures game is having on WAR, but I was curious as to whether the license extended beyond that, to all of the Warhammer (excluding 40K) IP.

Read the whole article here.

I hope that the so called "WoW clone" alot of players are using will be less now but i doubt it

Originally posted by machiavelli

I hope that the so called "WoW clone" alot of players are using will be less now but i doubt it

Technically, WoW is a "clone" of warhammer, and Starcraft is a "clone" of 40k.

Its fact, Blizzard were major fans of war hammer, but they couldn’t get the IP, so they made there own.

Originally posted by Mrbloodworth

 

Originally posted by machiavelli

I hope that the so called "WoW clone" alot of players are using will be less now but i doubt it

 

Technically, WoW is a "clone" of warhammer, and Starcraft is a "clone" of 40k.

 

Its fact, Blizzard were major fans of war hammer, but they couldn’t get the IP, so they made there own.

Yup, this is fact. 

Its like batman, think of WoW as the tv serious and WAR as the movie.... Or somthing like that.

Looking forward to what I read about all these new things put in to this MMO are making it sound better by the day.

I think that WAR will better reflect the war that is raging between both side.

Man i really enjoyed reading the part about the "WoW clone." I hope some of those ignorant fools read that and maybe think twice about what they have said.

Originally posted by machiavelli

I hope that the so called "WoW clone" alot of players are using will be less now but i doubt it

Typically that comes from WoW Fanboiz and like any fanboi... they don't need to be right... they just need to maintain the same hyperbolic rethoric that conveys in one images what it would take explanation and references to deflate.

WoW didn't invent much... so frankly... when I hear people comparing things to WoW (other than subscriptions, revenues, popularity or  quantity of content where WoW is truelly the reference... Lineage doesnt count when it comes to comparing with Occidental games) and coming up with all sorts of negative judgements without even citing the actual innovators I find their list of references very small for people who would spew criticism...

Stupidity is an unstoppable force and people labeling things in spite of their limited knowledge will never stop.

Nice to hear some info about how the beta is progressing.   Not much new info about the game but it's interesting to hear from different folks at Mythic apart from Paul B and the usual suspects :)

Originally posted by Romse

 people labeling things in spite of their limited knowledge will never stop.

Regretfully true.  Articles like this might help but face it, we're going to have to be correcting people all the way to release of this game and for years afterward.   It just can't be helped. 

Originally posted in the article:

 They have also stated that "The more you participate in our community, the better your chances are of getting into the beta."

What community are they referring to? I didn't think there was an official WAR community/forums...