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Warhammer Online Boasts 750K Players

by Blake Ellison, Oct 10, 2008 9:34am PDT

Mythic's Warhammer Online (PC), the MMO that bills itself as the Led Zep to World of Warcraft's Beatles, is still picking up players with publisher EA announcing today that the game has crested the 750,000 mark.

"Thanks to our players, the war between the Realms continues to escalate at an incredible pace," said Mark Jacobs, Mythic Entertainment co-founder, in a press release issued by EA. "The battlefields are alive with three quarters of a million players fighting for the forces of Order and Destruction in truly epic and unparalleled Realm vs. Realm battles!"

The online role-player launched on September 18, meaning that those 750,000 players have arrived in under one month. EA and Mythic previously touted gaining 500,000 subscribers in the game's first week. At that time, EA called it "the fastest-selling new MMO of all time."

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I'm loving it, but I'm pretty annoyed that the game chugs like crap when there are a lot of people on screen at once. Doesn't seem to matter what settings I use, once the stuff starts to hit the fan my FPS get crappy and then some sort of memory leak takes over and I have to restart to get them back good again.

Oct 12, 2008 8:16pm PDT

I'm loving it, but I'm pretty annoyed that the game chugs like crap when there are a lot of people on scr... : skinlab133

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I cancelled my account so that I don't get charged after the free 30 days. As of now, my level 37 zealot just grinds scenarios and quests all day. Kinda sucks. Keep taking is ok, but the community just isn't there yet. Plus gamebreaking class balances suck =/. I'll give it a few months before I come back.

Oct 10, 2008 9:53am PDT

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I don't see it as a WoW-killer mainly because its artwork is so dark and Tim Burton like. WoW is popular from its cudley Disney cartoon artwork. However to play it has big improvements over WoW, and you actually feel the quests, npcs are all part of a world and not just a means to an end.

I hope it does atleast get 2 million people playing so it can develop more, hopefully fixing the poor character models you get on Empire and the elves (the weakest part of the game)

Oct 11, 2008 12:03pm PDT

I don't see it as a WoW-killer mainly because its artwork is so dark and Tim Burton like. WoW is popular ... : joooze

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I'm really enjoying the game quite a bit. I played my Black Orc up to rank 24, but found I wasn't enjoying PvP as much as I had hoped (namely because I don't feel like the BO's abilities are useful enough in tier 3 to be of much help to the squishier classes)...so I made a sorceress, and now I'm having a blast. I've been running scenarios pretty much non-stop and it's incredibly fun.

Will I stick with the game for the "long haul"? I don't know. With so many other titles coming out, I'll probably take a break for a while fairly soon, but I can definitely see playing WAR a good bit once the new year starts and the release schedule clears up.

Oct 10, 2008 10:36am PDT

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I'm really enjoying the game quite a bit. I played my Black Orc up to rank 24, but found I wasn't enjoyin... : Vincent Grayson
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- oh man, stick with the BO. Destro needs them endgame. : Defacil
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  Black orc is a funny class when your out of T1/2 mage start to hurt alot so try and avoid them and pick o... : Twin--Sword
  - I love "Da Biggest" but end up using the auto-heal one because most of the time the healers are terrible ... : Vincent Grayson

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Not a big deal the sound is great but when the hell will EAX be enabled?

Its just kinda dumb to have this post out there http://www.soundblaster.com/products/gaming/article.asp?articleID=77505&categoryID=13 and in the game you cannot actually enable it I mean WTF?

The game rocks, but small things like this irritate me that’s all, I come on take the page off the Soundblaster site.

Oct 10, 2008 10:21am PDT

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Not a big deal the sound is great but when the hell will EAX be enabled? Its just kinda dumb to have t... : valcan_s
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- Yeah thats kinda lame its not in there yet. I like war alot though. : BorenKets123

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I work with two WoW players. One says he's not going back to WoW at all, and one's canceling one of his two WoW accounts and splitting his time between WAR and WoW.

Oct 10, 2008 2:28pm PDT

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- The last bit was my solution. I love WAR, but I don't think I'll ever be able to truly get rid of it bec... : IndigoAK

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Has issues. Abilities that refuse to fire, huge class imbalances in favor of certain Order classes over Destruction and the worst thing of all, the scenarios. Scenarios are ruining the game, people log in and just queue up for 3 scenarios and play them over and over again for hours on end. Realm PvP suffers greatly because of it as people just log in to play "Warquake" in scenarios. Horrible design decision.

Oct 10, 2008 10:59am PDT

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Has issues. Abilities that refuse to fire, huge class imbalances in favor of certain Order classes over D... : Visceral Monkey
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    For some of us it does matter, that's what the game was supposed to be about, not playing scenarios over ... : Visceral Monkey
    - I mean it has no impact on the game. Tier 4 does because no one wants their capital taken. So people are ... : Tommy Toolbag
    - Let me guess you play Destruction. Well i play order and I'm not stupid enough to walk out on a battlef... : erebus
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  I love how everyone always thinks the other side is broken... from my order side, I don't see any order c... : TheNiXXeD
  - People are complaining only because of the late T2 / Early T3 game, where there is a slight Order favor. ... : Mad Jack McMad
  - You need to play the game abit more. The BW is better than the Sorc but then again the witch elf is be... : Twin--Sword

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Cancelled my Account. Not my piece of cake.

Oct 10, 2008 2:09pm PDT

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Cancelled my Account. Not my piece of cake. : Johnnsen
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- You mean "cup of tea"? : aznboysix

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Just cancelled my account, I think I'm completely over mmo's.

Oct 10, 2008 10:44am PDT

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Just cancelled my account, I think I'm completely over mmo's. : Steamed Pork Bun
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  750K 749K players. : waxthirteen
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    he had 1,000 accounts? damn I could see why he would be over mmo's...that's about $50,000 for the games a... : Bumpmapped
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    - oh shi.... hahaha wow : waxthirteen

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Lets see what that number is like on 10/19 after the free month is over. I will be cancelling my subscription on the seventeenth because the game has quickly lost its charm. Mythic is on the right track but the game still feels unfinished. I will check back in a few months and see how things have shaped up.

Oct 10, 2008 10:07am PDT

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Lets see what that number is like on 10/19 after the free month is over. I will be cancelling my subscri... : MH Knights
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- At the moment they are rolling out weekly bug fixes and adding content. On the Warhammer Alliance boar... : first2di3

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lol, I love how MMO threads are always full of people who are certain they are the final word on the game

Oct 10, 2008 11:07am PDT

lol, I love how MMO threads are always full of people who are certain they are the final word on the game : Shai-Tan

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like many mmo's...lets see where they are in 6 months.

Oct 10, 2008 10:34am PDT

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like many mmo's...lets see where they are in 6 months. : jarek99
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- agreed. Besides WotLK comes out next month. After i have played through most of it, I might see if WAR ... : jedi_27

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i tried the open beta and just couldn't get into it

I've tried MMORPG's since Asheron's Call 1 and i'm tired of the same routine of getting dropped in a location, told to talk to NPC and then hunt to level up...Asheron's Call didn't necessarily follow that exact scenario but still the mechanics of what most people did with their time ends up being kill x amount of monsters and raise stats...

Plus I didn't think this game looked all that great or ran all that great either for a new MMORPG, I'm on Dual Core AMD 3.0ghz, 2GB Dual channel, Windows XP SP3, 8800GT

Oct 10, 2008 10:17am PDT

i tried the open beta and just couldn't get into it I've tried MMORPG's since Asheron's Call 1 and i'm... : quadalupeupe

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So only 2947484594948494004 more players to go until it catches WoW?

Oct 10, 2008 9:52am PDT

So only 2947484594948494004 more players to go until it catches WoW? : Attica Blue

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