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• • Are you glad they cut classes?

  • To the people who complain about a class being called "Hammerer":
    There's a reason for this: EA/Mythic has (read about it a few months ago, don't quote me on that) a strict contract running with the corporation "Games Workshop Ltd".
    Games Workshop is the owner of the Warhammer tabletop series and this online game might be their first and maybe only BIG opportunity to promote their own product. Now Games Workshop is not a small company by all means, their games have a pretty big and healthy community in the US and in Europe, they are the "big boy" in the miniatures business. Warhammer Fantasy is close to 30 years old in case you wondered.

    I'v been playing Warhammer tabletop games for about 12 years now and the graphical design of the classes in WAR looks very similar to the miniatures of the tabletop game.
    Also the names of many classes are the same as in the tabletop game. Black Guard, Witch Elf, Black Orc, Sorceress, Hammerer, etc. are the exact same names of the corresponding Warhammer Fantasy tabletop units/characters.

    Here as an example, the Witch Elf:

    http://uk.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.uk?do=Individual&code=99110212075&orignav=13

    
    When it comes to Mythic and Funcom: Mythic had quite a success with Dark Age of Camelot (it got worse over time tbh), but as we know post-WoW times and expectations have changed. But doing it even worse than Funcom does is beyond imaginable at this point. Also the chances for WAR becoming an impressive success compared to AoC are way higher, given the background and circumstances of the warhammer trademark...compared to the amount of incompetence and appaling business ethics causing Mr. Howard to turn in his grave.

    I don't think any halfway "decent" (in AoC terms) patch will make enough players come back. The core design of the game itself doesn't grant much long term entertainment, at least it didn't for me and many others obviously.
    It's with new MMO's as it is with dating a girl you haven't met before. The first impression is key. If you mess that one up there won't be much "happening" afterwards.

  • Posted: 7/16/08 6:38 AM
    Age of Conan