The only problems I had with the interview:

A .1 differance is not a "country mile"

EA has not INCREASED interest in the game, just the opposite...

Other than that I have to agree with the people who say that if you think WAR is a WoW clone its cause you are too young or too dumb to know better.

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Originally posted by Sturmrabe

The only problems I had with the interview:

A .1 differance is not a "country mile"

EA has not INCREASED interest in the game, just the opposite...

Other than that I have to agree with the people who say that if you think WAR is a WoW clone its cause you are too young or too dumb to know better.

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Good point.  The interview seemed to ignore the fact that WAR had a rating of 7.5 before the EA merger.

Afterward it dropped to 7.1 and it has slowly been crawling back up as people are at least seeing that EA hasn't fired the entire staff of Mythic or done anything -obvious- yet.

I'm still worried but who knows, maybe Mythic really can interact with EA without becoming infected.

EA has a proven history of bad moves.  I don't expect that to ever change.  They'll dissolve Mythic or replace them with cheaper and less experienced programmers sometime down the line, you just wait and see.  Or better yet, they'll cancel WHO 3 months from release.

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Originally posted by nthnaoun

I wander if this game will appeal to me. I like DAoC, the way it was when only SI was released. No instances, the world wasn't larger than its population, and everyone grouped and hunted together, plus there wasn't quest based content to keep you solo, like in WoW.

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I hope not.
Standing in the same place for hours and killing the same monsters over and over again, dying sometimes and loosing exp so you can kill the same monster even more was not so much fun for me.
DAOC was a weak pve game but a great pvp (rvr) game. Hope that war add some good entertainment for the pve and level part and delivers a unquie and interessting rvr part.

I too have 0 faith in EA's past MMO titles.  Actually, scratch that, I have negative 100% faith in EA's ability to make a decent MMO title.  Their "market experts" are obviously idiots when it comes to MMO games.  And yes, they did kill UO, once Garriott lost creative control it was over.

Some quotes from EA:

"For its part, EA disputes the notion that it has had problems developing MMOs. Instead, it said the UXO move was a strategic realignment of resources."

"We really thought it was a good idea to focus more resources on Ultima Online," said Aaron Cohen, the game's product manager. "In looking at the situation, we thought it was better to focus on that successful product."

"EA said it thinks The Sims Online is doing fine. "Granted, the game didn't launch well, and could have used a bit more time in the studio back in 2002," said Jeff Brown, EA's vice president of corporate communications. "But since then, it's built and maintained a thriving community." - This is utter BS.

But on the other side you have this:

"As far as management goes, Mythic CEO Mark Jacobs will stay on board, but will take the new position of vice president and general manager of the studio. Mythic cofounder and COO Rob Denton will stay on as vice president and COO of EA Mythic."

"There is hope. Certainly when Electronic Arts rolled up Maxis, Maxis was still able to crank out great (and experimental!) games, using EA resources. The same might be the case for Mythic, especially if EA has the sense to give them some autonomy."

Honestly, to me, it seems like EA's merger with Mythic is just a way for EA to try and make a WoW killer.  I'm just curious as to what is going to happen to the game a few months after release when it is not heading for 6 million + subscribers that EA is crossing their fingers for, then we will truly see if EA is trying to redesign the way they make MMO games (That being, to actually be GOOD) or just trying to find Blizzard's secret formula.

Sanya rocks and this game will rock, nuff said :)

I remember seeing this at the comic-con.  I hope they are still on track with all they said they were going to do.

I have a lot of respect for DAoC and Mythic.  They were the first 3D MMO company to not segregate the player base between raiders / non-raiders / PvP'ers.  Everyone had an equal chance at decent content and rewards no matter their play style.  I'm quite sad to see that they will be adding raiding into this game.  I feel like they are taking steps backwards in the genre.  I sincerely hope they don't hand all of the best content and rewards to raiders, its unfair, its cheap and its elitist.

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OK im so tired of this Wow vs War vs GW vs Mythic vs Nerds vs Gay people battle.I am going to state a few facts here just so u know. First of all i would like to state that i am with Blizzard all the way even if they way they made WoW sucked they tried they're best and it payed off. Second of all orcs and dwarfs werent inveted in 1980s when warhammer started screwing around with miniatures. They were invented way before that so dont fucking say bliz copy warhammer with WoW and WoW is the clone thank you. Second, wacraft 1 , 2 , 3  and expansion all had HUGE sucess and sold milions. What did warhammer have? crap. Second dont go flaming people for saying warhammer online is a WoW clone cuz they are right. WoW came first in the mmorpg market not war. So dont fucking try to disprove that its impossible. Third if War had been first people would have said WoW was a clone so plz WAR IS THE CLONE. NOW! ladies and oh who am i kidding there are no ladies here. There might be a few things that attract me to War and Why i left WoW in the first place, such things are RVR!! cuz thats the thing ive been looking for and WoW pvp is a joke literally but lets look at something here... War said they will have " campaings " where people enter an instance and fight humm that sounds familiar.. i think i left WoW cuz of that OH WAIT ITS A BATTLEGROUND hummm so thats nice the only " inovating " thing coming out of war is a battleground thats sweet. OK finally the graphics. War graphics look like WoW only crappier. The orcs look like some 5 year old kid drawed them its like wtf they dont even try to make it look realistic cuz they know its never gonna happen graphics in movies of War trailers look like crap blizzard is the master of movies and war trailers are crap its like they are made in 2d and the pixels are the size of a donut. Thank you and fuck you UO fans im never gonna pay 13$ a month to play a diablo 2 clone with 2d graphics only actually worse graphics than d2.

Definitely on the fence with this one.

Given Mythic's track record in DAoC of listening to whiners, endless cycles of revamping already existing characters, focusing their character balance efforts of PvP rather than RvR, and total disregard of player exploits via buffbots (as the buffbot exploit increased Mythic's income - my opinion), I can't get excited at all about some new title they are working on.  When I left Dark Ages of Castalot years ago, I was completely fed up.

I'll probably wait for quite some time on Warhammer, reading the reviews and comments from players, and if the positives way outweigh the negatives I might jump in.

"MMORPG.com:     The last time we spoke, you had a rather concrete vision for the evolution of RvR throughout the course of character's career. Have there been any changes or innovations to PvP in the game since then?

Sanya Thomas:   
"Concrete vision?" That smacks of a certain inflexibility, and "inflexible" is something that a product in closed beta can't afford. We have a design framework that has not changed in a big way since the last time you interviewed the developers. The execution has in many cases dramatically changed, as we try things and decide that they don't work - or implement things and realize that those things limit us unnecessarily. I can't be specific here, because anything I say today is subject to change before the next demonstration. And at the next demonstration, you can play and write about it yourself.

Sorry, that's a terrible answer. "


I dont think it was a terrible answer, I wish a better question was asked. 

As a person who has never played DAoC or is familiar with Warhammer history but an avid PvP gamer, what makes Warhammer different than current/last generation MMOs that are/have PvP mechanics?

What seperates Warhammer Online from the rest the current/last generation PvP mechanics?

The game looks alot like WOW.
And guess what? I don't care.
Daoc was one of my favorite MMorpgs, I have faith in Mythic.
I have faith in this product.

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