WAR (Warhammer Online)

wow this game is certainly getting a lot of attention. you could say its an attention whore kind of game :) but naah.

soooooo what do you guys think will this be a great game or will it flop like conan?

sure, whutevah

Number wise, without a doubt it will be the #2... I'll even dare to go forth and say that its the only MMO since WoW to have an actual chance of taking down WoW. My reasoning behind that is simple, everyone I know who is addicted to warcraft has been keeping up with WAR news more than I have and know as much about WAR as they do about Litch King.

However, numbers don't say anything about quality, just look at AoC for proof. WAR will never be as good as LOTRO or EQ(both I and II). It will be fun and addictive, but the depth of the stories and the great community will be missing.

I wasn't too sure for a while..

But after watching numerous videos I am starting to get very excited.

The combat might not be as twitchy as WoW but, I prefer the extra classes, new zones, new items, quests, places to explore etc over WoW's outdated and limited gameplay.

My guess is this game will reel in 5 mil + subscribers. I am prepared to eat those words too.

have you read all the information going around since the NDA has been lifted. obviously not because you wouldnt even have created this thread. people have been testing for a year, and i barely heard any gripes about it. i tested conan for 4 months and hated it. couldnt say anything cause they kept the NDA up because they knew it was incomplete garbage. WAR is so good, they knew they could let the NDA go.

yeah people are talking abut this game, and there is a bit of advertising, but it is not mythinc that is hyping the game, its the players.

games like AoC where you see HUGE page wide ads every where, and on every magazine is kinda scary.  I have seenvery few big ads for warhammer yet it is constantly getting word of mouth.  now that the NDA is lifted and more info is coming out from the testers it will get a bit more hype, but from the people who actuly know and have played it. 

ill take the advice of one average gamer over 10 full page ads and a gamespot review any day.

Originally posted by korr

yeah people are talking abut this game, and there is a bit of advertising, but it is not mythinc that is hyping the game, its the players.

games like AoC where you see HUGE page wide ads every where, and on every magazine is kinda scary.  I have seenvery few big ads for warhammer yet it is constantly getting word of mouth.  now that the NDA is lifted and more info is coming out from the testers it will get a bit more hype, but from the people who actuly know and have played it. 

 

ill take the advice of one average gamer over 10 full page ads and a gamespot review any day.

Yeah, MTV ran those adds for free.  Everyone knows that.  Plus a lot more people come to MMORPG.com than watch MTV anyway.

Good catch, Korr.

 Im in the closed beta and im really hooked on this game already =P

Closed beta here to. I haven't played in over 2 weeks or more. Not because it wasn't good but because I was getting hooked and didn't see my chars wiped lol. So I layed off myself till OB and Headstart come out. I haven't had this much fun in an MMO in a long time. They were right when they said you will not be saying hmmm what can I do now it will be "WOW theres so much to do where do I start?".

I tried white lion (loved this one),shaman (was ok not a big healing fan but he could bust some chops),Marauder (fav by far and a very good melee class), and I played a engineer which was one of the funnest ranged classes. One class I didnt get into was the squig herder I do not know why or could I tell you why i didnt like it or give reasons. I started one fought some dwarfs and deleted him. But they listen so well to everything and care about the game so much it was greating being in the beta and having a company listen to what to change and such.And this game was super stable already I do not think i ever crashed and i played for hours on end.

It certainly won't become "#2" (depends on what you mean by that) but it won't flop like AoC either. It should be good, and not a trainwreck like AoC was with overhype by the actual game makers. It should be overhyped but not by WAR's creators (they've actually been quite humble) but by the players. I expect the game to be good but to not blow my socks off. People are expecting way too much out of this game and are going to be sorely disappointed.

EDIT: In the long run (meaning 6 months after release) it will probably retain numbers anywhere from 250k to 500k. If AoC survived it would have probably made it up to 1 mil along with AoC but that time of great competition for both companies has passed. Now WAR has nothing to worry about (unless you count WoW