Mythic hasn't started WAR expansion

By Oli Welsh Published 9 December, 2008

Focusing on live game, says Jacobs.

Mythic boss Mark Jacobs has warned that the first expansion pack for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning could be a long time coming.

Posting in a speculative thread on the VN Boards, Jacobs said that work hadn't begun in earnest on the first expansion to the young MMO - and that once it did, it would take a long time. The developer's priority remains updating the live game for now.

"Just so you know, we haven't begun work on an XPack yet and aren't going to until we get a lot more done in WAR," Jacobs said. "The expansion can wait a little longer but the main game can't."

"And once we begin work on an XPack, it's going to take us quite a while to do it," he added. "We're still at the talking stages and while we think we have some rather interesting ideas, it's not time yet to even go to Games Workshop to get their blessing."

Jacbos hinted that he was a fan of the Vampire Counts from Warhammer lore, so they might well feature. He also said that fans speculating in the thread had hit on many of the same ideas as the developer.

Warhammer Online gets its first major content update, 1.1, this week. It adds two new playable careers, new quests and a revamp of the game's open-world warfare. More details at the Warhammer Online gamepage.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Apologie #1 3 years ago

    Warhammer is the only MMO that can somehow compete with WoW, have great ideas and the PvP RvR is a lot of fun, but after playing a little bit more of WoW i have to admit that its still the best MMO by scale, art direction, features, races, diversity, story etc... only time will tell if Warhammer can in fact become as good as Blizzard's game... in my opinion, there is stilll a very long way to go for Mythic.

  • linksdad #2 3 years ago

    Pointless starting an expansion if your shoddy theft of customers money (didnt work with me I got a charge back thankyou very much) and unfinished mechanics alienates enough players to kill the game.

    A great shame, as there was a lot of potential.

  • warlockuk #3 3 years ago

    You talking about Age of Conan, link'sdad? :D

  • linksdad #4 3 years ago

    I think you will find that Mythics statement of paying subscribers was heavily inflated by their policy of converting everybodies accounts to recurring subscriptions despite individuals opting for manual renewal methods or cancelling their account. And then refusing to give a refund becuase we had agreed to the 'terms and conditions'

    I had high hopes for the game and even upgraded my machine in order to play it. A rushed launch and shoddy partner choice were the nails in the coffin for the Euro version.

  • Lemming81 #5 3 years ago

    Link'sdad:

    That was actually GOA, not Mythic and from what we've heard they got a heavy slap on the wrist for it, as well as apologising themselves claiming it was an error in their system, which they corrected and will refund anyone who has irroniously been charged.

    I agree it shouldn't have happened in the first place, but it was GOA.

  • Jigglybean #6 3 years ago

    Great pvp let down by a very unpolished product. Its great that all the crap they cut out is coming back as updates. Its also a bad sign when things are already being 'revamped'. Look what happened to Star Wars Galaxies.

  • AOFanboi #7 3 years ago

    A good thing they don't fall into the "chucking out expansions, fix bugs later" rut og Dark Age of Camelot... have they actually learned?

  • LowEnergyCycle #8 3 years ago

    @retrend

    Surely then - it's a good idea they're sticking to the live game refinements rather than any expansions. Also, it's easy to forget that WoW had similar teething problems. Give it time, I'd say.

  • Mooks #9 3 years ago

    I really don't see how WAR can compete with WoW at the moment, WAR has some serious technical problems and the awful animations and performance seem to be much more serious that people are aware. The game engine on lower end machines chugs even with just 10 ppl in a RVR instance seeing how the whole point if the game is much larger scale battles a machine that can handle WoW's large scale pvp is going to be brought to its knees by the WAR engine. Sure you can upgrade your machine but there are still problems reported with high end rigs which are as yet unexplained so just upgrading is a hit and miss affair. Animations are nowhere near as good as in WoW and the general feel of the combat is pretty gimped. If Mythic can't resolve alot of the fundamental issues voiced by the community I can see WAR going the same way as Tabula Rasa, Auto Assualt etc

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #10 3 years ago

    True the game is pritty ruff atm, like t4 keep taking but when you have about 200 players doing the same thing and everyone's using the pritty settings you can forgive it a bit :)

    Also agreeing about the 'if Mythic don't sort it out' bit, buuuttt unlike a certian Funcom, Mythic aren't baiting us with 'mirical patch comming soon' and taking forever to deploy any patch, both US and EU test servers are up, we'll be having two quite heavy patches within the same month, BOTH seem to be fixing a lot, MJ's focusing on THIS game not 'other projects' (ala Funcom AGAIN, witch you know FC try fixing your pc version before porting half your devs to the 360 version!!!)... Mythic are just under the Turbine level of uber patchness.. Things are looking up..

    It's only GoA holding the EU back, we've had only one wave of server transfers.. we need more asap!
    Edited by 1 at 10/12/08 @ 10:02

  • linksdad #11 3 years ago

    lemming81:

    Their response and subsequent lack of communication speak volumes.

    Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning, Ticket ref: #653423
    --

    Dear Customer,

    Thank you for contacting us in relation to your issue.

    The subscription automatic renewal function was made active on all accounts with a valid subscription period running, on the 14th of November on which date an e-mail was sent to you informing you of this action.

    This action was taken to improve our subscription service as you will not have to renew your subscription period manually.

    You will now be able to avoid disruption to your game access between subscription periods.
    While we apologise there may be some confusion around the implementation of this policy this was a necessary action to improve our service to you.

    This policy can be found in the 2nd article of our General terms of Subscription which has been included since the release of WAR which states:

    Section 2

    “For payment through the banking system, your subscription will be renewed automatically starting on the anniversary date of your subscription period for durations identical to the subscription duration that you chose.”

    Additional information can be also read here:

    Also we are unfortunately unable to process your refund request as your subscription period has already started.

    Section 6

    “Each subscription period that has begun will be billed and non-refundable, whether in full or in part. Similarly, failure to use your subscription during a subscription period does not give you the right to any refund.”

    In addition to this, the e-mail sent to you informing you of the automatic renewal update was sent in order to give you adequate time in order to cancel your subscription if necessary.


    In order to cancel your next automatic renewal please log into your account at [link url=http://www.war-europe.com< /a>
    ]    http://www.war-europe.com< /a>
    [/link]

    -Click on My Profile
    -Click on the “Terminate your subscription” Tab at the bottom of the page.

    If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Kind Regards,
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    Warhammer Online European Billing Support