Originally posted by Ingvar

3rd faction is comming, they are splitting off some of the races to a third faction, no new races. If you read the blogs it hints clearly to it

 Could you link the blog? I can't see how they could possibly make 3 factions without adding any new races.

make the game free, no one wants to put money into this piece of shit

 I think i jsut had a mild cardiac assault.

 Is the time of restoration upon this game? F2P would do good for this game. Hope it happens at at somepoint this year. Even if they don't wantto admit it. F2P would make them competetive again.

I would totally try this game again if it goes f2p

One of the few mmos I actually had fun

So what was the big news? I'm guessing it wasn't F2P since I can't find anything about that on the website..

Originally posted by OkhamsRazor

About a month ago I predicted this happening in July or August  in a thread I started . It would'nt suprise me one bit . I'm playing Warhammer at the moment on a 14 day welcome back offer . Its ok when theres enough players in t4 to get some RVR going .In 5 days I've only had one scenario pop up though .I think its a matter of adapt to survive for Warhammer now . Free to play would make this game a success .

 These predictions are meaningless, so don't go around patting yourself on the back.  I'd bet you don't remember all the ones you "predicted" that haven't come true.

Just saw the date of the OP post and them all my hope went back to the cave

Originally posted by dinams

Just saw the date of the OP post and them all my hope went back to the cave

Only 10 days ago, and the announcement was that they will be annoucing something.

Stay in your cave forever please.

So what was this big announcement then????

Announcement about WAR will come in late August: WAR Herald

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Kai Schober (Community Manager)

Created 1 day ago

Gamesday Announcements:

1. They will be bringing back fortress for some of you that don't know what it is. It's the last zone you have to cross to get into city while fighting the enemy faction and a Lord npc guarding it. If there are people guarding the fortress some will be chosen and buffed into a giant champion like during city battles.

2. They will be adding capture the flag in RvR. What does that mean? each zone will have a reliq/flag a player will take it from the enemy fortress and bring it back to theirs. The reward will most likely be RP or some renown boost for everybody in their t4 faction zones.

3. There will be a T7 armor for vanity purpose. It does not give stats but you can use it as an alternate appearance.
(Hint: It looks ugly as crap, they showed the Shaman, Chosen, and BW)

4. They will add another player monster races in the game like skaven.

5. Range DPS will get more CC

via: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/232/index/8001281/1

This is just about the next two upcoming patches, whatever is under the NDA is still set for the end of August.

I would spend big bucks on store items if they would just go F2P, the way I did with LOTRO and AoC...

Feels weird saying F2P in the same sentence with "big bucks"...LOL

Originally posted by UnleadedRev

I would spend big bucks on store items if they would just go F2P, the way I did with LOTRO and AoC...

Feels weird saying F2P in the same sentence with "big bucks"...LOL

The problem is that LOTRO works fine as freemium because it is a PvE game.

AoC is really a PvE game as well even if it have PvP. If WAR went F2P or Freemium it would become a pay2win game and it just wouldn't work out.

As I see it is the only good way to save WAR to telease a expansion and at the same time change it into B2P with a itemshop selling fluff and possibly some XP pots. But that would cost money that I think EA wont put into the game.

WAR as F2P or freemium would be a bigger disaster than it is a P2P.

WAR F2P would be a nice distraction...damn you misleading thread title!

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by UnleadedRev

I would spend big bucks on store items if they would just go F2P, the way I did with LOTRO and AoC...

Feels weird saying F2P in the same sentence with "big bucks"...LOL

The problem is that LOTRO works fine as freemium because it is a PvE game.

AoC is really a PvE game as well even if it have PvP. If WAR went F2P or Freemium it would become a pay2win game and it just wouldn't work out.

As I see it is the only good way to save WAR to telease a expansion and at the same time change it into B2P with a itemshop selling fluff and possibly some XP pots. But that would cost money that I think EA wont put into the game.

WAR as F2P or freemium would be a bigger disaster than it is a P2P.

The simple free to play is a massive xp boost. If they boosted all forms of xp for pay accounts I'd pay to come back, and every time i rolled a new toon pay for that toon's leveling. 50-100% would get my money, I remember liking this game because of collision detection, and I wanted to go back to it, but read its a dead game on these forums and that deterred me from a pvp game. as far as leveling goes, if i remember correctly they'd still get a lot of money outta me because i'd be paying for all those levels you get from pvp when you hit level 40. i think i remember it being like 80 ranks or levels that were essentially pvp levels. i could be totally wrong though.

just read your post in detail and saw you mention xp pots. thats okay, but it doesn't cover the hours when no ones on and i wanna just solo level, since group xp and pvp xp was way faster in that game if i remember. i'd always feel like i can't consume one because its just gonna be a waste of money when i'm trying to level solo. paying upfront for the service always feels more comfortable.

also, you can sell stuff that'd make crafting easier in some way? i remember there being time durations to some of the crafting features (planting seeds i think?), anything that doesn't directly affect pvp is probably safe to boost with player cash.

AoC pvp is kinda fucked I hear because they made it a buy2win game with the selling of the highest ranked pvp gear.

Originally posted by Ferment

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by UnleadedRev

I would spend big bucks on store items if they would just go F2P, the way I did with LOTRO and AoC...

Feels weird saying F2P in the same sentence with "big bucks"...LOL

The problem is that LOTRO works fine as freemium because it is a PvE game.

AoC is really a PvE game as well even if it have PvP. If WAR went F2P or Freemium it would become a pay2win game and it just wouldn't work out.

As I see it is the only good way to save WAR to telease a expansion and at the same time change it into B2P with a itemshop selling fluff and possibly some XP pots. But that would cost money that I think EA wont put into the game.

WAR as F2P or freemium would be a bigger disaster than it is a P2P.

The simple free to play is a massive xp boost. If they boosted all forms of xp for pay accounts I'd pay to come back, and every time i rolled a new toon pay for that toon's leveling. 50-100% would get my money, I remember liking this game because of collision detection, and I wanted to go back to it, but read its a dead game on these forums and that deterred me from a pvp game. as far as leveling goes, if i remember correctly they'd still get a lot of money outta me because i'd be paying for all those levels you get from pvp when you hit level 40. i think i remember it being like 80 ranks or levels that were essentially pvp levels. i could be totally wrong though.

just read your post in detail and saw you mention xp pots. thats okay, but it doesn't cover the hours when no ones on and i wanna just solo level, since group xp and pvp xp was way faster in that game if i remember. i'd always feel like i can't consume one because its just gonna be a waste of money when i'm trying to level solo. paying upfront for the service always feels more comfortable.

also, you can sell stuff that'd make crafting easier in some way? i remember there being time durations to some of the crafting features (planting seeds i think?), anything that doesn't directly affect pvp is probably safe to boost with player cash.

AoC pvp is kinda fucked I hear because they made it a buy2win game with the selling of the highest ranked pvp gear.

The game isn't nearly as dead as people like to think it is. T4 and T1 pretty much have fighting 90% of the time on US servers, and T2 and T3 have them about 50% of the time. Mostly during afternoon/evening/weekends for t2/t3. But it's still there.

The game isn't nearly as dead as people like to think it is. T4 and T1 pretty much have fighting 90% of the time on US servers, and T2 and T3 have them about 50% of the time. Mostly during afternoon/evening/weekends for t2/t3. But it's still there.

You had me toying with the notion that I should come back, but then as I re-read 't4 and t1 pretty much having fighting 90% of the time' I realised that could include just the battleground pvp and not the outdoor pvp that made for a lotta fun. If that wasn't what you meant, but you were actually talking about keep siege that'd be a different story.

Originally posted by Ferment

The game isn't nearly as dead as people like to think it is. T4 and T1 pretty much have fighting 90% of the time on US servers, and T2 and T3 have them about 50% of the time. Mostly during afternoon/evening/weekends for t2/t3. But it's still there.

 

You had me toying with the notion that I should come back, but then as I re-read 't4 and t1 pretty much having fighting 90% of the time' I realised that could include just the battleground pvp and not the outdoor pvp that made for a lotta fun. If that wasn't what you meant, but you were actually talking about keep siege that'd be a different story.

Nah he means open RvR too. T1 oRvR is tedious tbh and ends up (during peak time) simply being a warband or two on each side just fighting at the entrance to one anothers warcamps. T4 usually has a good few warbands full of people fighting across and locking the various zones in order to seige the opposite sides city + plenty of Scenarios (BG's) popping. T2 & 3 is just plain open RvR but for most of the day only consists of capping empty zones or against very little resistance.

Even though WAR may not go F2P there maybe some link in when Bioware/EA launch their Star Wars game.

Perhaps along the lines of - pay $10 for Starwars and $12 for StarWars and WAR. Of course I am speculating, but recently we had to change our WAR account details to a more generic Bioware type account, hence my speculation.

With regards to Population in T2 and T3, I have many alts at this level of the game and regularly find RvR action in thenm with up to 40 vs 40, which is more then enough to enjoy the game.