EA Mythic has announced that the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning beta ahas reached the half a million player mark.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Dec. 13, 2007 - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that Warhammer(R) Online: Age of Reckoning(TM) (WAR), the highly anticipated massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from EA Mythic, has surpassed 500,000 closed beta registrants in North America and Europe. Beta testing resumes next week with a special sneak peek at the new Dark Elf lands and careers. Thanks to the tremendous response from fans around the world, the development team has a strong pool of gamers to engage in WAR's final tuning stages.

"It's fantastic that over half a million players want to help us with the development of WAR," said Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager of EA Mythic. "Their feedback will help us take WAR to the next level as we focus on refining gameplay, adding polish, and most importantly, making sure the game is extremely fun. We can't wait to let them all into the living, breathing Warhammer universe that we're creating."

Poised to be one of the biggest new MMORPG releases of next year, WAR is slated for official launch in Q2 of calendar year 2008. The Beta Center is still open and accepting recruits at: https://betacenter.eamythic.com/signup.php.

Based on Games Workshop's epic and longstanding tabletop fantasy war game, Warhammer Online features revolutionary Realm vs. Realm(TM) (RvR) game play that immerses players in a world of perpetual conflict. For more information, please visit www.warhammeronline.com.

 

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Ok... So they are releasing tidbits just like Turbine.

*great*

Originally posted by Orphes

Ok... So they are releasing tidbits just like Turbine.

*great*

What are you talking about?

Originally posted by whitedelight

Originally posted by Orphes

Ok... So they are releasing tidbits just like Turbine.

*great*

What are you talking about?

This:

...has surpassed 500,000 closed beta registrants in North America and Europe.

..."It's fantastic that over half a million players want to help us with the development of WAR,"

Maybe choosed bad word "tidbits", maybe you have a better one.

But I shiver by these things. I don't know what the intentions are. But setting up to high expectations, let the game sell itself.

With the counter ticking on the betainvite for LOTRO and betaplayers and what they announced it is almost as they want people to play the games because alot of others do instead of people playing the game because it is a good game.

Shouldn't that read beta applicants  have reached 500,000. A wee bit different, i was just about to become irate I hadn't got my invite.

Cheers.

Originally posted by Orphes

Ok... So they are releasing tidbits just like Turbine.

*great*

If your talking in terms of information about the game, it's the complete reverse: the devs have been completely open about whats actally happening within the WAR dev department plus with the podcasts from the main site us non-beta people know just about the same as the players actally playing it, you don't even have to dig for the information half of it's on this site or linked here and the other half is on the site site..

What IS known about this next phase of the beta is from the resent newsletter and that this part of the beta willhave focused testing, meaning events will be set up so your characters may be temparery buffed up and/or leveled to test certian areas of the game and quite possibily reset often and plus they'd probly be expecting a LOT of feedback from the  testers (as they should)

Originally posted by Orphes

 

Originally posted by whitedelight

Originally posted by Orphes

Ok... So they are releasing tidbits just like Turbine.

*great*

What are you talking about?

 

This:

...has surpassed 500,000 closed beta registrants in North America and Europe.

..."It's fantastic that over half a million players want to help us with the development of WAR,"

Maybe choosed bad word "tidbits", maybe you have a better one.

But I shiver by these things. I don't know what the intentions are. But setting up to high expectations, let the game sell itself.

With the counter ticking on the betainvite for LOTRO and betaplayers and what they announced it is almost as they want people to play the games because alot of others do instead of people playing the game because it is a good game.

Ahh, it is just odd to see such a high number of people wanting to test a game, compare it to other games. I do not think this statement adds to the hype, it isn't like this announcement is going to spur another 500k people to sign up. I don't think it is going to get much bigger than this.

Well those 500 doesnt say that much. I signed a while ago for WAR beta too, and if I get invited I will surely take a  look, but I am already 99% sure that I wont buy the game. TCoS looks more fun in my eyes.

But my point is, from those 500k, not everyone wants to actually buy the game.

Originally posted by Thatim

Well those 500 doesnt say that much. I signed a while ago for WAR beta too, and if I get invited I will surely take a  look, but I am already 99% sure that I wont buy the game. TCoS looks more fun in my eyes.

 

But my point is, from those 500k, not everyone wants to actually buy the game.

It is just a bragging right, nothing less, nothing more. Most games do not garner the attention to get 500k applicants. You think that games with 100k applicants all want to play the game? Nope. Do you think everyone who tests TCoS actually wants to play it? Nope. I signed up forever ago for TCoS and have 0 intention of playing it when it launches.

Bah, the only number that matters is if I get a beta invite....

Good to see lots of folks are interested in the game though.....

According to the very limited list of countries available when one applies to the beta, what they really mean is "500k USA beta testers". Europe, on that list? Lies.

oh noes!! according to mr. garriott, they will RUIN teh game!!!1!!

Originally posted by Estrus

oh noes!! according to mr. garriott, they will RUIN teh game!!!1!!

It would be mighty hard for Warhammer to be as soulless and banal as the Tabula Rasa I remember playing in Beta.

500k beta applications

490k WoW players expecting WoW 2.0

/sorry couldn't resist

Over 500k applications yet not invites.

Weeee!

500k huh? I have to giggle to myself and wonder how many of them are gold-farmers trying to get used to playing the game before it goes live. xD

Originally posted by Fion

500k beta applications

490k WoW players expecting WoW 2.0

 

 

 

 

 

/sorry couldn't resist

190k expecting a good game

But I won't go there.

Took long enough to get a response lol.

In this instance, all 190k gonna find what they are expecting. Just like all 490k WAR applicants will find what they are expecting as well.

/snap

edit: just so folks don't come in here screamin for me to 'gtfo troll' I'm just messin. I'm actually glad to see lately WAR has been doing stuff to distance itself from the whole 'WoW clone' thing.

Originally posted by Fion

Took long enough to get a response lol.

 

But at least it wasn't 'gtfo troll!' lol.

Nah, I rather enjoy your posts and there is far too much flaming on these forums to not have some fun.

op, I edited after you replied :/