How this got under my radar I don’t know… Thankfully over at the wall of text it’s been drawn to my attention.

This is an MMO I will be watching out for. I’ve applied to the beta today, so fingers crossed…

Could be a bit special…

As you have no doubt heard, the login queues during the Aion Head Start are crazy. Anywhere close to prime-time and you are looking at a multi-hour wait. Besides the obvious reasons, too many people and too little servers, there are other factors.One…

My problem is finally fixed — I hope *knocks on wood* — and I didn’t do anything.  Well, unless you consider calling AT&T 5 (no joke, 5) times and NCsoft twice.  On my 5th call to AT&T I was finally able to be… insistent enough… Okay, I was kind of mean but what do you [...]

Greetings!

Tomorrow morning beginning at 5AM EDT all Mythic Online Services will be unavailable until 10:00AM EDT in order for us to do necessary hardware maintenance in our data center.

Only the Official WAR forums will be available (http://forums.warhammeronline.com) during this downtime.

Please note this means the following services will be unavailable:

- Mythic Account Center
- WAR Patcher
- WAR Websites (Including the Herald and Realm WAR)
- WAR Game Servers
- DAoC websites and patcher
- UO Website and new client patcher.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this downtime and we will work to bring all services back online as quickly as possible. Thank you!

When we first came to Warhammer, over a year ago, we all had certain expectations. But if you were to sit down and seriously think about it, what kind of experience were you expecting from this MMO and how realistic were those expectations?

Personally, I had come hoping for DAOC 2.0, with lots of full group (FG) fights, but this time with [...]

Greetings!

At 9:00AM EDT we will be restarting all servers to disable the weekend’s live event. We anticipate this to take no longer than an hour, however, we estimate all servers will be back online by 11:00AM EDT.

Thank you!

So on Friday I collected my new rig, and it’s something of a beast. Phenom 2 955 Black Edition, 4 gigs of Corsair DDR3 ram(might upgrade that to 8gigs), 4890 Asus Top Edition graphics card (might get another and Crossfire the two) – the whole 9 yards.
Set up was easy. All I had to do [...]

Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Christian Hummeluhr, Producer of the upcoming MMO Dawntide. You may recall I have posted about Dawntide before as it looks quite promising. Thanks to Christian for taking the time to answer my questions.–…

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I have been unable to log in to the Aion authorization server (login server) the entirety of the pre-selection.  I played, without issue, during all of the Aion beta weekends and the open beta.  What changed?  The conspiracy theory here would be that NCsoft hates AT&T (or SoCal), or the other way around, and is [...]

Since the transfer of players from Karak Eight Peaks, my home server of Norn has seen a massive resurgence of AoE bomb tactics. That’s not to say it wasn’t there before, undoubtedly it was, but nothing like to the same extent. With the monstrous ze…

Wow,

Can you believe it has been one year today since WAR first opened its gates to the world? It’s been a heck of a journey.  We’ve made a number of changes, but you have only seen the tip of the iceberg on how we intend to improve your experience. Together, with your feedback, we’ll continue to work to make WAR an even better game as we head into the future!

The past 365 days have provided many challenges and triumphs and, as we prepare for 1.3.2 and beyond, we’re aiming to hit the issues that matter the most to you. In addition to the four new careers, numerous Live Events, the medallion system, Keep upgrades, city siege improvements, and other new features, we’re now turning our focus to improving balance, performance, and the Tier 4 game play experience. In addition, we’re looking at improving the new-player experience and taking the pain out of the campaign by amping up Fortress runs and making them something to look forward to.

The anniversary celebrations continue through this month, and don’t miss this weekend’s Gates of Ekrund event!  1.3.2 will be coming to the PTS in the coming weeks, so expect to hear a lot more information about the exciting changes we have in store!

On behalf of the entire team at Mythic Entertainment and EA, thank you for your support and I look forward to celebrating this day with all of you for many years to come…WAAAGH!!!

See you on the battlefield,
Jeff Hickman
Executive Producer, Mythic Entertainment

For an hour I was getting this:

Then I finally get to the character selection screen, made my character, had my name chosen, then I clicked create…. to be met with “You have been disconnected”.  Now I’m back at trying to get onto the authorization server (which kicks me to desktop every time that message comes [...]

Today, Phillip Chan, otherwise known around the Mythic studio and on the official forums as “Pchan”, WAR’s Crafting Designer, gives us a sneak peek at what’s in store for Butchering and how it will play an integral part in new potions that you’ll definitely be interested in. Read on for all the juicy details!

What do Aion and the Wizard of Oz have in common? They both seem to have a lot of little people in them. The height slider in character creation allows for a wide variety of heights. Normally I would support more options in character creation, but w…