Special griffon and manticore mounts for referring friends in WAR

by Brooke Pilley Apr 22nd 2009 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Warhammer Online, News items

Mythic has taken their Recruit-a-Friend program up another notch by offering exclusive griffon and manticore mounts to players who refer six friends to Warhammer Online. Before you get ultra-excited, no, they don't fly. That said, special flying mounts for friend referrals would probably be a little unfair to everyone else.

The mounts do look great though. Magus players will receive a special disc for their referral efforts since they do not ride traditional mounts. There are a number of other referral rewards, including free game time, non-combat pets, and special items that grant additional XP and allow you to temporarily raise a friend's level up to within two of your own.

Referring a friend is as simple as logging in to the account management centre and firing off a few quick emails.

Tags: exclusive, griffon, manticore, mounts, mythic-entertainment, recruit-a-friend, war, warhammer-online

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

THAC0 said on 10:55AM 4-22-2009

So does anyone know what the Magus mount will look like? I bet it will look like a blue glowy disk... not much incentive for the Magus to recruit if Mythic thinks the Magus mount is soo ugly they need to not show it LOL

notorious said on 11:03AM 4-22-2009

There's no way I'd be able to recruit 6 people to play the game. Anybody I know that would be interested would have already tried the trial or bought the game. But those mounts are really cool looking. Definitely the best looking mounts in the game, and I'm so sick of my dwarf helicopter thing, I really wish there were other ways to get it.

JP said on 11:27AM 4-22-2009

jsut let friend know that have left, if they ever come back, to use you. It's cumlative, so you can recruit over the next month, 6 months, year, w/e.

It's a nice perk and incentive. Defenity something people will enjoy having. Personally though, I like the "side kick" (CoH lingo ;)) power you can get. I think that's fantastic.

SomeDude said on 12:58PM 4-22-2009

I got to laugh at these mounts, why the hell are they giving mounts with wings when... they don't fly!

That's just ... dumb. I realize the dorfs have a hover mount but griffins and manticores don't hover insofar as fantasy beasts do anything I suppose.

snowleopard233 said on 1:35PM 4-22-2009

In the amount of time it took me to read this article. I recruited six freinds to a game with winged mounts that actually do fly and got them all to maximum level...

True Story.

(hops on zebra unicorn mount awarded for recruiting one friend)
I also got Mystery here for free!

(Rides off into the sun set of Azeroth)

WoW Country: Come to where the flavor is.

Disataste said on 1:12PM 4-22-2009

This is a pretty poor attempt by Mythic to recruit players because they're desperate. Most of the people in their target market(PvP) have already tried the game and quit or heard the bad things about it via word of mouth. I bet they start offering full sets of gear for refer a friends soon as well.

Seriously if they just spent some time fixing the major problems instead of making "expansions" or promotional items they might actually get some customers back.

Hardy said on 3:00PM 4-22-2009

Every other MMO has incentives like this, including WoW. Does that mean their all failing too?

.... Moron.

JP said on 4:32PM 4-22-2009

Is he? I don't know? I won't agrue that the game is "failing". I don't think that's the case. It certainly failed me on a personal level.

But, there is a stink of deperation by Mythic in the sheer blitz of trials, rewards, and incentives they'll offer anyone willing to pay for the game for one month. Especially considering that it's the most recent AAA title released.

If this was say, City of Heroes or even LOTRO, I'd be less judgmental. But, for a 7 month old game that's the new big dog on the block, it seems desperate.

Then again, I do think the economy factors in. As well as EA's demands on the studio.

t0k3n said on 4:30PM 4-22-2009

@ Hardy
If your car doesn't run are you going to spend time and money giving it a new paint job and a sweet new sound system...no ur gonna get your car running then add all the bells and whistles.

... Moron think before u insult someone

Phone-Guy said on 6:01PM 4-22-2009

Take your own advice. WAR is far from a broken down car. Plus it very foolish to assume that 100% of the companies efforts go into marketing rewards. They have teams that work on different content. Mythic's core developer base work on allot of the bugs. These marketing rewards are a handful of guys who have very little to do with bug fixing or major game improvements taking content that was in the game since beta and stamping a fresh label on it. Those mounts existed in beta. Most of the marketing rewards at this point seems to be stuff that was around in the early days that is just reworked to give some glam to players who are loyal to the game. Also its not really an act of desperation as it simply is a continuation of the cross brand promotions such as the Kossar's Helm with RA3.