Calling the game a self-help program is an interesting take on
EA Mythic's upcoming
Warhammer Online, but
West Karana makes a compelling argument. Over the last few years many quality MMOs have been mostly passed-up by
World of Warcraft players -- which seems to be a sign that most of these players need more than a 500k subscriber MMO before they consider moving on to greener pastures. We can be sure that Electronic Arts and EA Mythic are gunning for their game to pull in over a million -- whether they consider themselves to be the
Led Zepplin of massively games or not. A method of hype such as this is probably their best chance at pulling it off.
So if
Warhammer Online can hit that magical six-figures subscriber mark, can that be considered putting a sizable hole in the dam holding
WoW players back? Well, it all depends on how many people get pulled into WAR and find that they like it more than
WoW -- because the two games are very
different under their "cartoon" cover.
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2-22-2008 @ 12:00PM
breezer said...
That guy gets the "most full of shit" award. Seriously, if Warhammer ends up being everything that guy says it will be humanity will be $15/month away from nirvana.
Learn from the recent MMO hype machines, people. They say whatever you want to hear, even if it makes no sense at all.
Meanwhile, WTB some Warhammer footage that doesn't look incredibly terrible.
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2-19-2008 @ 8:13AM
Ghen said...
$20 a month me thinks. WAR's been throwing that number around alot.
2-19-2008 @ 3:08PM
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It won't be $20 too much and EA knows that besides they said they haven't established a price but if they want people from WoW they will have to be price competitive.
@breezer The footage is lackluster however everyone knows that graphics polishing are one of the last things on the to do list in game design they are more focused on core mechanics and game play which are more important right now.