Warhammer Online Merges Servers

[TsunamiWombat]

I still say they should have gone with a 40k MMO, and not yet another elf, orc whatever fantasy game.

Oh yes they should. 40k would bring much more people, cause 40k>Regular Warhammer.

Agreed. Another fantasy game or an awesome dystopian(might be misusing this) futuristic setting? You decide.

I think one is being developed. It could either be the most awesome, or the most horrible, thing ever.

 

[Perivayne]

Having been a victim of two such merges, it's very disruptive for the guilds to transfer. I wish that Mythic had truly addressed the issue and made the guild transfers easier to do. Instead it's a rather labyrinthine process to pick up your guild and move to the other server.

It's also stranded some of our guild, since some decided to play destro on the one server, and then War merged our server onto that one. Now, we have to game against each other. Which leads to hillarity on the Vent when we're in RvR.

 

[Abedeus]

I liked WAR alot, but I can't bring myself to play it again. The keep system needed alot of changes and I vowed not to return until these changes were made. They've improved the game I'm sure, I've been reading the patch notes, but not enough. If I were to return now I'd just get annoyed for all the same reasons and quit again.

On the other hand, they have finally started handing out 10 day trials to the game, so perhaps this will increase the playerbase?

Yeah.

I wasted almost $80 ($50 + $15 x 2) for that game. Three months of gameplay, although two of them were fully played. Game was just too boring.

Don't get me wrong, I love the PvP. It's just that I had to get a better GPU to run the game smoothly, and by then most of the people left the game.

 

[Rhayn]

I still say they should have gone with a 40k MMO, and not yet another elf, orc whatever fantasy game.

After playing WAR, I can't help but agree with you. It didn't really feel like anything new. I mean, allthough it had some new and innovative concepts, from the ground up it was still just another fantasy MMO.

But whatever, that wasn't the reason I quit. I quit because the game had a problem with nVidia cards at launch, resulting in framerate lag from hell. Also, some of the animations were dull, and I'll be damned if I am going to play a game where I can't stand watching it.

Whilst I'm on an editing spree, the PvP would've been twice as much fun as WoW's, if it wasn't for a rather large flaw; the game wasn't very responsive. I could click a spell, and it would cast it 3 seconds later. By then, whoever was supposed to die was far away and blasting me up with some stupid oneshot spell the damned Bright Wizards had.

Whilst I'm on that subject, the class balance seemed a bit messed up, too. Sorceresses and Bright Wizards were the kings and queens of the hill. Sure, perhaps not in 1v1, but the game was all about the group PvP. Have two groups stand on their respective side of the bridge, and the game would be won by the team with the most casters.

Granted, most of the issues would've been fixed in time, but some of the issues were so serious it felt like I didn't want to give my money to someone who had first delayed the game by two years, then released a half-finnished game.

 

[Perivayne]

I still say they should have gone with a 40k MMO, and not yet another elf, orc whatever fantasy game.

After playing WAR, I can't help but agree with you. It didn't really feel like anything new. I mean, allthough it had some new and innovative concepts, from the ground up it was still just another fantasy MMO.

But whatever, that wasn't the reason I quit. I quit because the game had a problem with nVidia cards at launch, resulting in framerate lag from hell. Also, some of the animations were dull, and I'll be damned if I am going to play a game where I can't stand watching it.

Whilst I'm on an editing spree, the PvP would've been twice as much fun as WoW's, if it wasn't for a rather large flaw; the game wasn't very responsive. I could click a spell, and it would cast it 3 seconds later. By then, whoever was supposed to die was far away and blasting me up with some stupid oneshot spell the damned Bright Wizards had.

Whilst I'm on that subject, the class balance seemed a bit messed up, too. Sorceresses and Bright Wizards were the kings and queens of the hill. Sure, perhaps not in 1v1, but the game was all about the group PvP. Have two groups stand on their respective side of the bridge, and the game would be won by the team with the most casters.

Granted, most of the issues would've been fixed in time, but some of the issues were so serious it felt like I didn't want to give my money to someone who had first delayed the game by two years, then released a half-finnished game.

Since I use nVidia cards as well, I agree the lag is bad. I would prefer that they would let us turn off useless animations and effects to reduce that, but even with the last patch allowing some graphic tweaks, they still won't let you drop the animations, which only compound the lag issue when you have a lot of players in RvR.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I still say they should have gone with a 40k MMO, and not yet another elf, orc whatever fantasy game.

Oh yes they should. 40k would bring much more people, cause 40k>Regular Warhammer.

I hear that. The promise of playing as a fire warrior and running around a Tau city would make me hop from WoW at light speed.

 

[ScorpionClaw]

Truly sad news...

I wonder if WoW truly is a phenomenon? I personally think WAR is a better game... It is wierd to see is bounce down so quickly.

To think about the grind, uggh.

Agreed. I prefer WAR to WoW. A lot.

I'll have to say the same. Ah well, things come and go. I wonder if we'll still be hearing about WoW being the biggest MMO *well, at least among payed one, as far as i know* in 2012 or even past that?

... something tells me that we will.

Somehow I think WoW will keep it's place at the top - it was the right game, launched at the right time & with the right system requirements. I had high hopes for AoC but that flopped, I was hoping WaR would get off the ground but it appears that has flopped too

 

[Rhayn]

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Since I use nVidia cards as well, I agree the lag is bad. I would prefer that they would let us turn off useless animations and effects to reduce that, but even with the last patch allowing some graphic tweaks, they still won't let you drop the animations, which only compound the lag issue when you have a lot of players in RvR.

Didn't they recently fix most of the issues related to nVidia cards though? At least when I tried the 10 day free trial, I was able to run the game at 'fastest framerate' without any problems, which was a significant improvement. But still, running the game at lowest possible settings on a decent machine in order to get anything more than a slideshow is hardly good design.

 

[Perivayne]

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Since I use nVidia cards as well, I agree the lag is bad. I would prefer that they would let us turn off useless animations and effects to reduce that, but even with the last patch allowing some graphic tweaks, they still won't let you drop the animations, which only compound the lag issue when you have a lot of players in RvR.

Didn't they recently fix most of the issues related to nVidia cards though? At least when I tried the 10 day free trial, I was able to run the game at 'fastest framerate' without any problems, which was a significant improvement. But still, running the game at lowest possible settings on a decent machine in order to get anything more than a slideshow is hardly good design.

It still requires some manual tweaking of the Nvidia cards to make the game frame rate better. The standard settings in the game or the advanced tweaks in the user options of the game don't really do much to improve it.

 

[emh204]

It is sad to see WAR going through this cause I find it fun especialy unlike WOW there is little grind due to all the RvR or PvP for thouse of you who havent played it. Yet it still bafles me that people keep going back to WOW witch we can all agree doing the quest over and over agean to level up gets realy realy boring.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

I still say they should have gone with a 40k MMO, and not yet another elf, orc whatever fantasy game.

Oh yes they should. 40k would bring much more people, cause 40k>Regular Warhammer.

Agreed. Another fantasy game or an awesome dystopian(might be misusing this) futuristic setting? You decide.

I think one is being developed. It could either be the most awesome, or the most horrible, thing ever.

Yeah, it is being developed and supposedly coming next year. By a different team, so Mythic stuck with Regular Warhammer.

I really like both the universes though (still like 40k better) - but there's a lot of cool stuff in Warhammer fantasy that the majority of these so called "Generic" fantasy games don't even have and I think many people were just way too quick to judge.

 

[Senrab]

I liked WAR alot, but I can't bring myself to play it again. The keep system needed alot of changes and I vowed not to return until these changes were made. They've improved the game I'm sure, I've been reading the patch notes, but not enough. If I were to return now I'd just get annoyed for all the same reasons and quit again.

On the other hand, they have finally started handing out 10 day trials to the game, so perhaps this will increase the playerbase?

Yeah.

I wasted almost $80 ($50 + $15 x 2) for that game. Three months of gameplay, although two of them were fully played. Game was just too boring.

Don't get me wrong, I love the PvP. It's just that I had to get a better GPU to run the game smoothly, and by then most of the people left the game.

It's not a complete loss. I'd love to play it again and I want the game to work. I don't hate it by any stretch of the word, I'm just waiting for it to get up to my standards before I return.

 

[Asehujiko]

I still say they should have gone with a 40k MMO, and not yet another elf, orc whatever fantasy game.

Oh yes they should. 40k would bring much more people, cause 40k>Regular Warhammer.

Agreed. Another fantasy game or an awesome dystopian(might be misusing this) futuristic setting? You decide.

I think one is being developed. It could either be the most awesome, or the most horrible, thing ever.

Yeah, it is being developed and supposedly coming next year. By a different team, so Mythic stuck with Regular Warhammer.

I really like both the universes though (still like 40k better) - but there's a lot of cool stuff in Warhammer fantasy that the majority of these so called "Generic" fantasy games don't even have and I think many people were just way too quick to judge.

The problem with 40k is that they either have to take out half the background or else balance is going to be fubar. They can't lob everything into 2 factions again because chaos and the necrons hate eachother alot and having side one of them with the imperium... Also, inclusion of either the imperial guard or space marires is going to prevent the other from being available too because of power differences. Then there's the problem of transportation, because warp travel usualy isn't used to cart arround 2 guardsmen and a heavy weapons guy from planet a to planet b so they can kill the required ammount of wild grox.

 

[Christemo]

EA mythic made the game. thats why its FULL of glitches. thats why i stopped. i had waited unpatiently for 1½ years, and then i get a turd in a chocolate box.

 

[headshotcatcher]

They should've done this a long time ago. Servers were way too empty to be playable..

 

[sharks9]

how many servers do they still have?

 

[Asehujiko]

how many servers do they still have?

Don't know about warhammer but AoC only has 16 left total.