Well, maybe they don’t hate you as much. EA today announced that Warhammer Online is now available for the Mac. If you haven’t jumped into their online realm, you’ll be able to rock out a 10 day free trial to see if you want to pony up the cash.
As a Mac user myself, I really like seeing more games coming to Apple’s platform. If there’s one downfall to using a Mac, it’s gaming. Hopefully more publishers will bring their titles to Mac and in a more timely manner. I think it’s a pipe dream, but I’ll keep dreaming.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has been pulling out all the stops to raise their subscriber base with the latest news of some benefits for people to come back to the game if they quit. If you decide to come back, you will get 10 free days of play and also receive all of your rested experience that you accumulated over the period you were gone, which is pretty nice.
They now have incentives for everybody to play WAR:
New customers that wanted to play WAR were given a free 10 day trial.
Refering a friend to play WAR gives you rewards based on how many people you recruit.
Now if you had quit playing WAR and decide to come back you can get some rewards as well.
Seems like the marketing department is hard at work over at Mythic Entertainment. With the recent news of server shutdowns, they need to step up big to keep WAR going.
If you have been playing Warhammer Online and have some friends on the fence about playing, now is your chance to recruit them and reap the benefits. WAR has officially launched a refer a friend program and the more friends you recruit, the more free days of play you get, along with in game items. One of the in game items is a pet, but even better is the item that grants you 5% more experience and renown for all your group members. Go start converting your friends and gaining free stuff.
This plus the free 10 day trial marks the fact that WAR is really putting on a full court press to get players interested in the game.
Last year was an interesting one for MMORPGs. A few contenders stepped up to the plate as possible WoW killers, namely Age of Conan and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Age of Conan has thus far proved to not be ready for prime time. WAR on the other hand has shown it can stand up to scrutiny.
WAR’s servers are constantly being updated with new content. Just this week, two new characters were added, the Orc Choppa and the Dwarf Slayer, two new melee classes. This is important to note, because games that receive this kind of attention from the developers are here for the long run.
Were you thinking of grabbing something else other than World of Warcraft? Tired of grinding in Azeroth? Well now is your chance to grab a ten day free trial of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Mythic just announced the trial for new players and if you want to grab the Warhammer Online trial, you can click right here. Although ten days sounds great, I think it is kind of sucks since it takes so long for a player to really get engrossed into an MMORPG like this one or any of the other big titles. I vote for a month trial and then we will talk; what do you think?
Go grab the trial and get your Realm versus Realm action on!
We just received word from the EA public relations group that the upcoming title Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will launch this September 18th, but before the launch it will get its own novel for gamers to learn more of the backstory that leads up to this epic battle. WAR looks to compete directly with World of Warcraft which means that it will need a vast plot and characters as well as great gameplay to even play in the same league. I like the release of the novel because that means that it will have plenty of material to draw upon to develop a great game. Go grab the novel now and start your homework before the launch.
The legions of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) fans eagerly
awaiting the game’s launch on September 18th can now immerse themselves
in WAR’s rich lore with the release of EMPIRE IN CHAOS, the first novel
based on the upcoming fantasy MMORPG.
EMPIRE IN CHAOS, written by noted Games Workshop scribe Anthony
Reynolds, is now available in bookstores in North America. The epic
novel follows the journey of Annaliese Jager as she escapes her
destroyed village only to be swept up in an epic battle to save the
Empire from the marauding forces of Chaos. Joined by an injured High
Elf, a grizzled Witch Hunter, and a Dwarf Ironbreaker, she will battle
along side the armies of the Empire and Dwarfs against greenskin tribes
and the dreaded Chaos Raven Host. Together, this unlikely band of heroes
must fight like never before to turn back the tides of darkness, or the
future of the Empire is doomed.
After much courtship EA has assessed the situation and decided to run away from this potential merger as if told that there was a flesh eating virus on the loose. No real word on why they are no longer eyeing Take Two but it is clear that the offers and extensions are done. EA will ride its own titles to glory and wait for another possible business venture to make their empire expand. Curious if Take Two will remain tough and by themselves or just look for better offers elsewhere? Not sure who else could match the dollars EA is offering, possibly Blizzard Activision?
EA has made it official, after all the extenstions on the tender offers, and the presentation, they are no longer interested in purchasing Tak
e Two and have terminated all talks.
According to John Riccitiello, Chief Executive Officer of EA,: “EA is tracking toward a record breaking year. We’re launching 15 new games including award-winners like SPORE, Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge, great new titles from the Sims, new family titles with Hasbro, and the highest quality slate of EA SPORTS titles on this generation of consoles. We’re also expanding beyond our core business with a series of direct-to-consumer launches including Warhammer Online.”
Warhammer Online is looking to upstage the two giants in the MMO world right now (WoW and Age of Conan). Do you think it can match their power? Me, I think it could be AoC but I doubt it’ll come close to WoW. Check out some character creation gameplay and get ready for a new MMO to suck up your time.
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