Warhammer Online CE head start launches, revs up the buzz

by Kyle Horner Sep 15th 2008 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Launches, Warhammer Online, News items

The first day of the Warhammer Online head start is over and several servers are already full of players picking sides and clashing foreheads. Another thing that's already started is the reaction around the wider web. The buzz is strong with this one. Here's a round-up of news bits relating to Mythic's newest MMO that you may find a bit surprising:

Something Awful's Goon Squad takes to Warhammer Online like Chaos flies to a smoldering pile of Orc poo. Is this a good or a bad sign?
For the extreme completionists out there that need to know how to unlock everything in the Tome of Knowledge, you may want to check out the newest Allakhazam site. It should be interesting to see how/if Mythic evolves the ToK to compete with websites like these.
If you bought the Collector's Edition and gotten your head start code, then you were part of the group who got in today. Wondering where that special racial head for your character is at and how you can get it? Mythic would like to tell you.
The ever-vigilant Mythic community reps have posted a bit more information on the how and where of getting your CE quests, which come with special titles and other rewards.
GOA sort of makes up for earlier slip-ups by getting EU players into their CE head start nice and smoothly. Let's hope this is the start of a pattern for the EU WAR service.
Mark Jacobs writes letter of thanks and excitement to everyone involved in the official beginnings of WAR.

Tags: allakhazam, collectors-edition, eu, europe, goon-squad, ign, mark-jacobs, mythic, mythic-entertainment, something-awful, tome-of-knowledge, war, warhammer-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Leshrac said on 11:09AM 9-15-2008

I'm in the CE head start and it was nice to finally play the game and have it count for once. I managed to get to lvl 7 with my Witch Hunter. Order got rocked as usual, it just seems that there is a different skill level between both sides.

george said on 11:37AM 9-15-2008

Warhammer is amazing... Best MMO I have ever played... Check out some of my videos:

25 minute video of some of the PVE content:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/265029.html

RVR action:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/265062.html

More RVR content:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZGEjSXwa2c

This game is going to be amazing... Way better than that crappy game called Age of Conan produced by Failcom... =)

Tony said on 12:30PM 9-15-2008

I've never really played a MMORPG right when a launch started, so it was funny how insanely crowded things were. Definitely worse than I can recall during any of the betas.

I wound up just leaving and coming back a few hours later. Sure, now I'm a bit behind a lot of other people but at least I don't have to run around hoping my relatively slow Shaman attacks some dwarf before 100 other people lol.

ScytheNoire said on 4:22PM 9-15-2008

The game is an absolute blast. Any one who doesn't find this game fun might just not be into MMO's in general. It's definitely a large step above WoW in the fun factor.