EA Mythic has announced that their ranks have swelled to 300,000 players who have signed up for the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta.

More Than 300,000 Sign Up for Beta Test of EA's Highly-Anticipated Massively-Multiplayer Online Game

EA Mythic today announced that more than 300,000 players have signed up for the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) closed beta test. In little more than a month, EA Mythic's highly-anticipated Warhammer Online has amassed a growing army of willing participants in Europe and North America, making the beta one of the most popular in massively multiplayer gaming history.

Poised to be one of the biggest PC game releases of 2008, WAR is slated for official launch in early 2008. The Beta Center is still open and accepting applications at: https://betacenter.eamythic.com/signup.php.

Based on Games Workshop's epic tabletop fantasy war game, WAR features revolutionary Realm vs. Realm™ (RvR) game play and is scheduled for release on the PC in the first quarter of 2008.

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Most MMOs would be happy to get this many suscribing players...

This game should hit the 5 million customers easily.

Considering the crowd it is aimed at: WoW crowd, Kids from GamesWorkshop, and its cartoony style its no suprise that quite a few schoolboys have rushed out to get into beta...

Shame that the peak of MMORPGs hit about 5 years ago.

Too many haters here..... I think its a good sign, (not a portent of 5 million though).... it sure means there's a lot of folks who want to give the game a trial.....er, I mean, help them test it.  

Great news, lets just hope they keep right on schedule and deliver us something great in 2008... (hey , that rhymes)

Originally posted by tikovoo

Considering the crowd it is aimed at: WoW crowd, Kids from GamesWorkshop, and its cartoony style its no suprise that quite a few schoolboys have rushed out to get into beta...

Lol almost a troll post here 

Originally posted by tikovoo

Considering the crowd it is aimed at: WoW crowd, Kids from GamesWorkshop, and its cartoony style its no suprise that quite a few schoolboys have rushed out to get into beta...

What has this game done to you?

I've seen video footage (IGN'S exlusive Warrior Priest Video) thats not cartoonish at all,and then theres the videos that look very similar to {cough} another Popular MMO. And by the Way the majority of the GWS hobby peeps are not kids(they dont got that kind of money,lol). IMO the game is gonna rock.

The largest number of people to sign up for a beta. So the end of WoW begins.

And WAR is not aimed at "kids". The 12yr olds will be playing AoC so they can see their cartoon boobs. I'm 21, I'd say I'm far from being a schoolboy. Don't worry, you should can still have fun with your junior high buddies playing AoC with your 200 server population.

Originally posted by Romse

 

Originally posted by tikovoo

Considering the crowd it is aimed at: WoW crowd, Kids from GamesWorkshop, and its cartoony style its no suprise that quite a few schoolboys have rushed out to get into beta...

That schoolboys barb seems gratuitous... WoW has many adults playing as it is easy on the casual player... and even though they still have a market... the height of GamesWorkshop's popularity was 20 years ago... the "GamesWorkshop kids" are in their 30s now.

 

What has this game done to you?

Thats easy, it has dwarfed her beloved Age of Conan, simply look at her posts, majority are flames in the WAR forums, the rest happy Age of Conan posts.

 I wounder are female trolls even uglier than male ones?

In another note, 300,000 is amazing number of people, I cant remember any MMORPG getting that many applications (As thats all they are, theres no way 300,00 beta players)

As stated before most MMO's would love that number of players never mind beta testers.

Originally posted by tikovoo

Kids from GamesWorkshop

haha you just gave 'clueless' a face! gratz man  

Lol, WAR reminds me of  WoW more and more everyday. These sort of big number announcements will grow more interest, then they hit the next mile stone, they announce that, more peeps flock in ect ect. The exact same happened with WoW, it's a cheap and VERY effective marketing.

Originally posted by ndpunch

Lol, WAR reminds me of  WoW more and more everyday. These sort of big number announcements will grow more interest, then they hit the next mile stone, they announce that, more peeps flock in ect ect. The exact same happened with WoW, it's a cheap and VERY effective marketing.

With all those people the odds of getting a beta invite seem pretty slim.

Only thing stopping WAR from doing well is a Vanguardian flubug launch. Hopefully EA won't be shoving deadlines and such to force them to launch too early.

Seems like the mmorpg players want it. Question is how long will they wait and will Conan keep them away?

Myself? I will play both, but most likely  won't be able to keep em both. So it will be AoC for a few months until WAR launches, but if WAR flops..

Despite how much I hate comparing WoW and WAR. some of us on WoW have come up with a new definition for the acronym. "Waiting On Warhammer". Seems we're not the only ones eager to play.

Originally posted by tikovoo

Considering the crowd it is aimed at: WoW crowd, Kids from GamesWorkshop, and its cartoony style its no suprise that quite a few schoolboys have rushed out to get into beta...

I love statements like that.... I can't remember when a video game stop being a game but it looks like you take your video games seriously. I can sit here and say this is only going to be a WoW rip off or a Daoc clone but what would be the point, I don't have a gun pointed to my head with someone making me play it. I've played most of all MMO's and I am curious on how good this will be, I got 4 good years out of Daoc so I hope I can with this one.

WOOT 300,000 and thats just for beta sign up  congrates to the Mythic team. Now lets hope all of us who singed up get in and that the game lives up to all the hope we have for it.

All my friends and family who play WoW hasnt bothered to sign up, even though I bugger them to do so. Also, the signup takes a whole 5 minutes or so, many cant be bothered because of this. I bet WAR will have 2 million subs in no time, 1 mill in North America, 1 mill in Europe. If its released in Asia soon after or same time, whoop! 5 mill subs in a year

WAR will probably be the last big mmorpg with autoattack though? AoC has no autoattack, AoC is either the future or a mistake, or both systems can coexist?

This game is destined to suck because it's a two faction system like WoW. You can't have any type of player / guild politics in a two faction game. You can't roleplay "good" effectively when every player is automatically doing the same exact thing (helping their faction and fighting the enemy). You need some players to differentiate themselves as "pk" and others as "anti pk" and they will actually be good and evil instead of just playing their side which is no different than the other side other then arbitrary choice

Originally posted by Arcona

All my friends and family who play WoW hasnt bothered to sign up, even though I bugger them to do so. Also, the signup takes a whole 5 minutes or so, many cant be bothered because of this. I bet WAR will have 2 million subs in no time, 1 mill in North America, 1 mill in Europe. If its released in Asia soon after or same time, whoop! 5 mill subs in a year

WAR will probably be the last big mmorpg with autoattack though? AoC has no autoattack, AoC is either the future or a mistake, or both systems can coexist?

I also love how you seem to think that releasing in asia = instant win. Because western MMO's have a big trackrecord of being successfull in Asia, right? [/sarcasm]