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Are we talking about the same game? I lean totally in the opposite direction.

For a game that's a month or so old, it's pretty freakin' deep. Much deeper than WoW at this point in its cycle. It's also a lot of fun. They also have more content and improvements on the fast track. The base they've started with is great and there's gonna be a lot of good icing on the cake.

It's nothing like AoC in any way. AoC slid because of quality and game play issues. WAR slipped when WoW released a ton of new patch content and people went to check it out. It's also a natural stabilization after the initial honeymoon period. You'll see this game continue to grow in both content and subscribers.

lol @ the doomsayer.

With two new classes coming in a month, the holiday season incoming, war still selling new boxes at a solid rate (4th in the NPD sales charts last week), and polishing going in steadily, you can take your doom and gloom predictions and clean your rear with them.

About the "boring gameplay", "not enough PVE", "badly animated and clunky PVP", you simply have no idea of what you're talking about. The gameplay is definately fun, there's more PvE content than in most MMORPGs at launch (yes, warcraft included) and the animations are quite good for models of that complexity. Maybe you should get your facts straight before shooting nonsense.

Oh and by the way, xfire coints the numbers of minutes played, not the number of players, less minutes played doesn't just include people leaving the game, but also people playing less due to the fact that when one buys a game he will always play more (how many even go as far as taking days off at a game's release?) and then inch back to a routinary state. This not to mention all the people (me included) that simply begin to turn off xfire when playing warhammer, since xfire is a resource hog, and people like to dedicate such resource to the game they're playing.

So, sorry for you, the game isn't even nearly dead, several servers have a very healthy population and more will due to server transfers (since mythic isn't silly like funcom and didn't take several months to adress population problems, and that's a great way to retain and regain users) and with all the content incoming soon, the future looks most definately bright.

Of course the game is on the brink of collapse.

Talk of server merges in the first 6 weeks of existence. Only PotBS and AoC had these same problems.

You can't "talk" about a success when MORE than half of your servers show a LOW/LOW trend on PRIME time.
Please be realistic.

Xfire is very accurate in indicating what the internet players are playing./ Just look at the daily numbers.

Oh BTW: the stats of Xfrie show a daily number of players. Second week War had 15.000(!) XFire players, now they are (in the week) down to 7.000 (!).

At this rate it 'll be outplayed by GW (oh sorry just saw it WAS overplayed by GW) yesterday.

Now add to these stats the fact that the old basic Wow boxes already outsell the "new" Wow killer and see where the game is heading. No new (misleaded) blood either I am afraid in the coming months.

As for content, please don't embarass yourself. LOTRO, EQ2 and WOW are head and shoulders above this cheap trial of an MMO (leave out the RPG pls).

I fell of my chair in viewing the "fly path" of WAR. A cheap animated loading screen instead of 3D fly paths: how many users do you think will accept this kind of crap.

Combining servers comes from having more than was necessary at launch to handle the normal launch rush. It was much better than, say, the WoW launch where they had overwhelming server issues. The launch went flawlessly.

And 3D flight paths? I'd much rather fly to my destination within 30 seconds than spend 25 minutes flying across a continent with nothing to do. Prolonged flight isn't a fun factor so it was eliminated.

Yes, the other games have more content. How long have they been out? Compare the rapidity of content releases in WAR to WoW and the other games. See where this is going?

The sharpness of your attack over a simple article and the venom you use to make your shallow points sap your credibility. You sound more like you're defending WoW to protect your 'big kid on the block' epeen than discussing points about another game.

Ok bossy, you pretty much identified yourself as a troll. You have no real idea of the state of the game, so please don't make yourself ridiculous with that kind of farfetched statements.

ALL games have low population servers, even wow does, and Mythic providing server transfers this early isn't by any chance a sign of failure. Most software houses don't do that just to avoid trolls like you trying (and failing) to spell doom and gloom with their misinformed comments. Mythic, instead, is simply keeping the enjoyment of their players as their's first priority, consolidating servers where it's needed.

And since when WAR should have been a wowkiller? WoW's sales are ininfluential. What's pretty clear is that Warhammer is still selling strongly, wheter trolls and naysayers like you would like. Sorry if that disappoints you, but I'm afraid that you need to face reality.

You're pretty laughable when you compare warhammer to guild wars, which is completely free to play and not even a true MMO. So is Lotro failing or "dead" or "on the brink of collapse" since it has less than 1/3 of Warhammer's played hours on your dear little xfire?

And about content, you obviously didn't even see the game, or you would know that WAR provides more content than ANY of the games you named provided at launch. Lol @ the flight paths by the way. Maybe in your absolute ignorance you don't even know that the points connected by them are extremely far in the warhammer world. Doubt anyone would like to spend several hours watching the environment go by before reaching their destination.

Seriously, you might as well stop posting, you're just spewing a ton of misinformation and laughable conjectures that have absolutely no solid base to stand on.

You're kidding right? I'm in a guild of 150, and an alliance of twice that or more and there are only 3 of us using xfire at all and of those 3, 2 of us forget to turn it on more than half the time.

I also know dozens of gamers who are not in my guild, and most dont use xfire. So, I seriously doubt that it's an accurate representation of the people playing Warhammer or any other game for that matter.

As for subscription cards lol, check your numbers bud. Most MMO players use a credit card, not a game card.

@Abriael: "ALL games have low population servers, even wow does, and Mythic providing server transfers this early isn't by any chance a sign of failure. Most software houses don't do that just to avoid trolls like you trying (and failing) to spell doom and gloom with their misinformed comments. Mythic, instead, is simply keeping the enjoyment of their players as their's first priority, consolidating servers where it's needed."

According to Mark Jacobs, the fact that WAR isn't adding servers IS a sign of failure:

“It will be the same for ‘Warhammer.’ Look at us six months out. Look at us six weeks out. If we’re not adding servers, we’re not doing well.”

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/29/ea-mythic-activision-world-of-warcraft-estimate-is-overblown/

A MMO that consolidates servers at this point in its life really will have an uphill battle convincing players that it is a game they should play. It isn't a good message to send to players, especially those who are forced to move their characters to a new server or see them deleted.

WAR launched with too many servers when it should have just waited (and told players) that they would be updating their server architecture in the near future.

I'm not expecting WAR to be a WoW killer, but I was expecting it to hold onto large numbers of players for more than six weeks.

Same could be said for WoW. When I quit playing it around March of this year here is where 99.9% of the people were in the game. BG's or Arena's, Running dumbass daily quests, sitting afk by PvP NPC's or in the Ah and finally Raiding. No one ever did anything out of the ordinary and that is why all the WOWers are crying over this live event with the zombies. So what you are saying could go for WoW as well. I hate it as much as you hate WAR. The population drop is very similar for both games except the Asian market in WoW is head and shoulders that of any game. It is where all the gold is farmed ya know.

Bossy,

Even if you're right...who cares? Those of us enjoying the game are happy. We're having fun. That's the point of a game. If you don't find it fun, don't play. You can't convince us through your posts that we're not actually having fun. It's subjective.

You must have some issue though if you find it necissary to make so many posts about a game you don't like! What are you trying to prove to yourself?

If WAR dies out...oh well. It was fun while it lasted. I hope that doesn't happen any time soon (nor do I expect it to), but I don't worry about it. It's a freakin' video game. Anyway, I'm done addressing the troll.

As for the article, I think there are a lot of good ideas mentioned and several sound quite likely to be implemented. The mounted combat sounds GREAT! I would love that.

As for open RvR, this Halloween event seems to be doing the trick. There are tons of people from both sides on my server in the T3 RvR zones duking it out. The whole system is basically an RvR-based PQ and people are obviously really into it.

Such a system is precisely what is being promised in patch 1.1. And between the PQs we all go keep/objective sieging since we're already gathered in large numbers. It's very fun!

Don't even let the guy think he's kind of right, he strings together a horrible argument with EXTREMELY loose facts. Every one of his posts looks like every Republican ad campaign I've seen over the last year: angry, misleading, bitter, and largely inaccurate. The only people who believe this kind of garbage are the people that want to see the bad more than the good, and you honestly have to look harder to find that with this game.