Warhammer Online Expansion lasts Months

[Twigglish]

Unlike a traditional MMO expansion, A Call to Arms is being delivered over the course of several months, with several different live events leading up to the revelation of a whole new realm-versus-realm controlled dungeon, The Land of the Dead. "It's a little non-traditional in the way that MMOs do expansions, but we have so much that we are doing and so many things that are happening that we really felt it deserved that term applied to it," explains Hickman.

In late March we get our first look at two new classes, the Orc Choppa, which was previously cut from the game's initial release, and Dwarf Slayer - a Dwarf unable to complete his life oath, resigned to die in battle in order to regain his honor. The Slayer replaces the Dwarf Hammerer, also cut from the game's initial launch. Both are being introduced via a Bitter Rivals live event.

Once the new combatants are in place, the events begin to focus more and more on The Land of the Dead, a new area to the south that contains artifacts of great power of interest to both sides of the battle. A bridging event occurs in April, lasting 10 to 14 days, which "really focuses on looking southward, giving the players the first insight into what's happening down there."

Finally, in June, the Rise of the Tomb King event occurs - a massive race between the two opposing factions to open The Land of the Dead dungeon.

So Call to Arms is set to change the face of Warhammer Online in a big way, but Mythic isn't planning on stopping there. Following another major update towards the end of the year, the company will begin looking at a boxed expansion for the game.


http://kotaku.com/5142057/mythics-four+month-plan-to-drip-feed-you-new-ways-to-play

Sounds like a Dev team that actually cares about keeping the community happy, and not just releasing expensive content for profits.

[Alucard]

I bought warhammer (the limited edition too,) and it was the biggest waste of money EVER

excuse me while i go play WoW lol..

[Adragontattoo]

I bought warhammer (the limited edition too,) and it was the biggest waste of money EVER

excuse me while i go play WoW lol..

I couldnt find the LE so I bought the regular version, the next day I found the LE sitting on a shelf in a store.

/enjoys WAR

[Twigglish]

I sadly never got the chance to try it out, but would love to when I get back home.

[Janus67]

I don't see how that is much different than the world events that Blizzard puts into WoW.

[Hardin]

Yeah wow has world events all the time. They haven't even released the real end game content yet.

[Robrules18]

Sounds like a PR spin for patch updates, which there haven't been much if any of since the game launched. It seems like its fallen off the face of the earth since launch, I didn't realize people still played it. I figured it went the way of AoC.

[Slayn]

Uh no, plenty of people play it. Definetely not WoW numbers but what MMO comes close? So far they have not added a whole lot but the games only been out for 5 months and it has a decent amount of content. On the two servers I play no one has taken a city yet so theres plenty of stuff to do. Adding the two tanks and now two MDPS ( with all the dungeons etc ) is just icing on the cake. And they also have live events too, so far the heavy metal one, halloween, kegs end, they are fun little side quests with neat little fluff rewards and the cape from the heavy metal event I still use its great.

[Aidans]

They give it all the good PR techniques that's for sure, but take a look at what you get out of it, ignore the snazzy peripherals and skip to the things that need fixing.

I was in closed beta for well over a year and there are still bugs and flaws in the game that we reported in the first few months, it's still depressing, even now that I don't play anymore, to find that the same spanners are still clogging the engine.