Crafty WAR marketing reveals the "Rosetta Bones," hints at upcoming contest

by Seraphina Brennan Jun 10th 2009 at 4:30PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Contests, Culture, Events, real-world, Expansions, MMO industry, Warhammer Online

First it was a movie and a box of hair dye that announced the coming of the Choppa and Slayer in Warhammer Online. Then it was the infamous "violent valentine" cards that announced the Night of Murder event coming to WAR. Now... now we have blogs receiving bones with glyphs and letters on them. You have to hand it to Mythic's marketing department. They have some pretty inventive ways to do announcements, one has to admit.

This announcement however, is pretty big. In conjunction with the release of the Land of the Dead, blogs all about the blogosphere will be getting "Rosetta Bones." These bones will feature different symbols on their faces, each linked with a letter of the alphabet. The bones will also be accompanied with a map that points out special tomb unlocks, a flag to show which version the bones belong to (Europe or North American audiences will be getting different bones) and a parchment page containing storyline clues for what will be occuring in the future.

So what will these rosetta bones unlock? Well, Tomb of Knowledge's letter seems to say that five blogs will be recieving encoded cartouches that this bones will decode. Wait a second, does that say Massively.com will be getting a cartouche? And if you are one of the first 1,000 people to decode it and enter the code into your Warhammer Online account that you'll get a special Scarab Amulet?

We better get out our Indiana Jones hats! We have bones and a cartouche coming! Keep your eyes peeled, and get ready to decode!

The sands of the Tomb Kings are coming as the final release in the Call to Arms live expansion, the Land of the Dead approaches! Massively has your back with coverage from Mythic Entertainment at Games Day '09, so get your WAAGGGHHH ready for RvR mayhem as Massively re-arms for WAR!

Tags: blogs, call-to-arms, cartouche, contest, land-of-the-dead, mythic, mythic-entertainment, puzzle, rosetta-bone, tomb-kings, tomb-of-knowledge, war, warhammer-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

JP said on 4:59PM 6-10-2009

Time & money could be better spent on this game, IMO. They've done this crafty type of gimic before. Still hasn't improved the overall perception of how their game plays.

Jack said on 5:19PM 6-10-2009

They need rebuild this game from the ground up on other core!

Hardy said on 11:47PM 6-10-2009

I keep saying that for WoW but they never do. :( ... For obvious reasons. lol it's just not feesable.

Celestian said on 5:35PM 6-10-2009

It's unfortunate that they do not spend more time on the balance issues and get rid of the summon abilities and reduce the effects of CC. Cause after T3 the RVR sucks because of all the CC and summon+die w/no way to counter.

Pedro said on 6:38PM 6-10-2009

Because we all know it is really expensive to come up with this kind of pieces and put them on mail. And the PR department really has hands to work on the core features of the game.
Learn what you criticize. They have new content coming out and they're using a form of promoting that they used before.
As for the usual hating comments, no the game doesn't needs to be rebuilt from the core. It has a very solid and working core. They need to improve performance and stability obviously but the core works and many issues are going to be improved with 1.3.