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While in Virginia, Jon Wood had the opportunity to see a presentation by Item Designer Justin Webb where he told us a little bit about the game's trophy system and some other customization tidbits.

Items play a vital role in any MMORPG. They are one of the carrots that is dangled in front of players as they move around from mission to mission. They are the outward manifestations of our characters, they serve as trophies that decorate our characters (and our vault spaces). They show where our characters have been and what they have accomplished.

While in Virginia at the EA Mythic studio, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Justin Webb, the Item Strike Force Lead (the WAR dev team is divided into smaller strike teams who focus on specific elements of the game). It was Justin’s job to tell the gathered reporters about the game’s trophy system where the items don’t just decorate our characters in terms of armor, helmets and pants, but instead literally decorate our characters with the spoils of war.

Read it all here.

Originally posted by Stradden

While in Virginia, Jon Wood had the opportunity to see a presentation by Item Designer Justin Webb where he told us a little bit about the gmae's trophy system and some other customization tidbits.

Items play a vital role in any MMORPG. They are one of the carrots that is dangled in front of players as they move around from mission to mission. They are the outward manifestations of our characters, they serve as trophies that decorate our characters (and our vault spaces). They show where our characters have been and what they have accomplished.

While in Virginia at the EA Mythic studio, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Justin Webb, the Item Strike Force Lead (the WAR dev team is divided into smaller strike teams who focus on specific elements of the game). It was Justin’s job to tell the gathered reporters about the game’s trophy system where the items don’t just decorate our characters in terms of armor, helmets and pants, but instead literally decorate our characters with the spoils of war.

Read it all here.

you mis-spelled game in your 1st sentence.

Was still a good read, glad they are starting to make information more public rather than just letting beta testers know whats up!

nice to finally have something cool and fun that doesn't require hours upon hours of dungen grinding to acquire.

Perfect. I like being different from everyone else if possible and this does this. Not having stats on it is great no need to have everyone picking the same things as the article read. Love it!

This will be a very cool feature.  And we know WOW for example will not be able to do this cause their crapix engine can't handle it.  And ... then they actually had to make new armors instead of just repainting them....

Big feature of MMOs so good luck with this Mythic.

Cool feature, but primarily I hope apon launch that they will have a good amount of the basic. Which is hairstyles and face styles.

It's little things like this that show me Mythic is trying. Do they have to do it? No, it's not essential to the game. But it's a very nice ambient feature, something you notice at first but then you quickly take it for granted. That's one of the reasons why I'm looking forward to WAR, besides the major stuff of course.

Originally posted by Valentina

Cool feature, but primarily I hope apon launch that they will have a good amount of the basic. Which is hairstyles and face styles.

 They will, its just that they aren't putting them into beta so everyone has a stable client.

That sounds amazing!

I really hate my characters looking the same as someone elses. When you walk around the corner and there are people walking past looking like your long lost twin it just screams"Its a GAME - it's all FAKE!" which may be true, but not something i like to be reminded off when i just spent 10 hours straight playing it :P

I enjoyed reading about this. It sounds very fun. I hope there will be numerous trophies for each class but hope that some will be usable by more than one class. The dyeing sounds like it will be able to add to the characters without being horrible task that some games make it.