General Discussion

EA Mythic announced in the Warhammer Online Newsletter that they have decided to delay the release of the game until the first quarter of 2008.

It's been an interesting year for us at EA Mythic, a year filled with new challenges, new opportunities and of course, a year filled with WAR! We have watched Warhammer Online become one of the most highly anticipated MMORPGs in the world as it garners praise from the press, earns kudos from the community and receives enthusiastic support from our partners and friends at Games Workshop. I'm happy to say that the task of bringing WAR to life is going well here at EA Mythic. However, we have important news to share and as always, we want you, the WAR community, to be the first to know.

We have made the decision to move our ship date for the US and Europe to the first quarter of 2008. (Release dates for Asia will be announced at a later date.) Since our acquisition by EA, we have been afforded many wonderful development opportunities and we plan to take full advantage of everything that is available. This includes taking several additional months to make the best MMORPG possible.

At this time we have completed most of the work on our first racial pairing - Dwarfs and Greenskins - and the team is now building Empire and Chaos. These new zones really kick butt and the team did a fantastic job of incorporating the feel of war and Warhammer into these areas. This racial pairing is the embodiment of all that I hoped for when we made the decision to partner with GW.

However, when we looked back at our work on the Dwarf and Greenskin pairing, we could not say the same thing. While these areas were good, they were not great and glorious. We have always said that WAR was going to be great and we will not settle for anything less. So the team has gone back to our initial pairing and conducted an intense review of their work. They have implemented new ideas and applied all that they have learned over the past nine months. What has already emerged from this dedicated time of focused polish is nothing short of spectacular. In the Dwarf and Greenskin zones there is now more war, more Warhammer, and more of what makes WAR great.

By extending our development time, we'll be able to do these in-depth reviews several times prior to launch to ensure all areas of WAR benefit from the experience of ongoing development. EA is totally supportive of our decision and are behind us 100%. We all believe WAR will be the next great MMORPG and being part of EA affords us the time we need to make it so. It is EA's ongoing commitment to quality that will allow us, and other EA studios, to deliver great games, now and in the future.

This change to our ship date is probably not the news you were hoping to hear. In the end, we'll be able to reward your patience with a truly next-generation MMORPG that will make GW proud, all of us at EA thrilled and most importantly, you, the players, as happy as a Black Orc in battle. We only get one chance at a successful launch, and we plan to catapult this one over the walls of Altdorf.

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Originally posted by Synorin
They are losing more and more players everyday...I want to trust them but i can't trust...we didn't see even a single elf ingame video icant understand what they are trying to do

Yea ... you know people here arent' friendly to trolls dude.   If your not trying to troll then atleast back read how things work with the development of the game before spouting this stuff.   They're building the racial pairings one group at a time.  They've finished orcs and dwarves and started the order / chaos humans.    Seeing how well their human pairings have come out since they hooked up with EA  they decided the areas and characters (im guessing art wise) need some updating to the orcs and dwarves.     They've not started / built the elves yet when they do it'll start showing up in the newsletters and podcasts like all the other races have.  Patience is a virtue and considering they've only been in full development with this game for two years(most games after two years have very little to show and what they do have to show isn't nearly as polished as what we've seen so far with war) they're actually really ahead of the game. 

I hope they keep ahead of the game but don't continously push back the game.  BTW aren't there like five of these threads OP?? why didn't you just post on those?

Seems like yet another Warhammer version going down the pipe line.

Third attempt isn't it? And they are putting it back...

Warning bells ring.

Originally posted by elvenangel

Originally posted by Synorin
They are losing more and more players everyday...I want to trust them but i can't trust...we didn't see even a single elf ingame video icant understand what they are trying to do

Yea ... you know people here arent' friendly to trolls dude.   If your not trying to troll then atleast back read how things work with the development of the game before spouting this stuff.   They're building the racial pairings one group at a time.  They've finished orcs and dwarves and started the order / chaos humans.    Seeing how well their human pairings have come out since they hooked up with EA  they decided the areas and characters (im guessing art wise) need some updating to the orcs and dwarves.     They've not started / built the elves yet when they do it'll start showing up in the newsletters and podcasts like all the other races have.  Patience is a virtue and considering they've only been in full development with this game for tw