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A press release from EA today claims that WAR has hit over 500,000 players in the first week. They are now claiming it is the fastest selling MMO in history.

Here's the linky:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080926005101&newsLang=en


[EDIT: WAR now has over 750,000 reigstered players per latest press release: http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=371]

Let's hope they can maintain those numbers.

They'll be fine until Wrath of the Lich King hits, then we'll see.

The article should have started with...

"The Armies of internet addicts have assembled to give up what little life they have and spend every once of their time playing the same video game for the next 3 years"

:p

I was really excited about this game until I read EA's website about it. Looks like just another MMO. I'd hoped it would do for MMO what Dawn of War did for RTS games. Still, chickens, hatching, etc.

Necros wrote:The article should have started with...

"The Armies of internet addicts have assembled to give up what little life they have and spend every once of their time playing the same video game for the next 3 years"

:p

/cheer!

i don't know...that number seems low for a MMO launch of this size. I think age of conan had 400k in its first week and that didn't do anything for it.

And everyone is playing destruction.

Yay!

QQ some more Stelek? Destruction is just..well cooler!

Not QQ'ing.

More idiots to kill, frankly.

All because of half naked dark elves!

RussWakelin wrote:They'll be fine until Wrath of the Lich King hits, then we'll see.

I believe even with Wrath they will ALMOST kill wow. Most of the PVP servers, From what I hear, have become Dead. I played WoW my self and am currently in love with WHO(Warhammer Online) I myself will not stray back to WOW for a while, if ever! Glad to see this game finally got released!

BrookM wrote:All because of half naked dark elves!

Yep...precisely. Same thing happened when Lineage2 was released. Everybody and his brother had a DE Female toon just about.

From what I have heard dont buy Warhammer Online if your computer cannot handle the very top end graphics processing. Anything less that a cutting edge graphics card and processor and it will not run properly.

Someone who owns the game care to back that up or refute? Cause I'm curious.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

lambadomy wrote:i don't know...that number seems low for a MMO launch of this size. I think age of conan had 400k in its first week and that didn't do anything for it.

AoC gave players very little reason to stick around.

BrookM wrote:All because of half naked dark elves!

Hey now, I resemble that!

I like the ways that WAR is very different than WOW. I love the way the publicly ban spammers/gold farmers. PvP is rather different than wow and takes some getting used to, and definitely relays on getting into groups; 1-on-1 combat seems to be quite rare. I love how you can't kite players- I keep finding WoW idiots that try running in circles around me while I auto-face them.

And yes, it does require a machine with more punch. You won't need a "top of the line machine" but you will need some power.

From what I keep hearing fans of the franchise will get the most fun out of it.

malfred wrote:Let's hope they can maintain those numbers.

I agree. This is great news. I have no real interest in MMO's, but I certainly want this one to be a success.

BYE

For those that haven't played: Yes, it really did capture the feeling of the WFB world. Each race feels very different and the characters are awesome. They really did nail look perfectly.

Big deal. My mom's site got half a million hits its first week too.

Orlanth wrote:From what I have heard dont buy Warhammer Online if your computer cannot handle the very top end graphics processing. Anything less that a cutting edge graphics card and processor and it will not run properly.

Not true.

If you can't run it, turn the settings DOWN.

Doesn't even have antialiasing yet for heaven's sake.

"From what I have heard dont buy Warhammer Online if your computer cannot handle the very top end graphics processing. Anything less that a cutting edge graphics card and processor and it will not run properly."

Well, I have only an Nvidea 7600 GT Farphics card from BFG and it runs fine on the highest settings. I ocassionaly get some issues with the axe throwing not sowing up but aside from that it works great. (For those of who don't know that Graphics card is around four years old.)

Stelek wrote:Not QQ'ing.

More idiots to kill, frankly.

My squig will eat you to death.

Orlanth wrote:From what I have heard dont buy Warhammer Online if your computer cannot handle the very top end graphics processing. Anything less that a cutting edge graphics card and processor and it will not run properly.

I bootcamped vista on my macbook pro (which is actually not the best laptop in the world for straight up horsepower) and it runs on max pretty well. You can get an equivalent desktop for 700 dollars easy. A lot of people are having difficulty because they switched from WoW (which a gameboy could run) with their PC they bought four years ago.


Gah, doublepost. Oops!

@Rated G, I remember going to your mom's site.

Nothing will ever kill wow. People will leave, they'll merge servers, people will come back, they'll make new ones again. I mean, hell, people still play the original Everquest. They just keep making new zones so people can abandon the old ones.. same thing over and over. Then WOW2 will come out and all the nerds will collectively wet their pants.

I think WOW is a fun game, in the low levels.. boring as hell as soon as you max your level. Yay, lets do the same raid 80 times so we can get new purple items to replace our old purple items from the last place we raided 80 times! That sounds like fun.

I was gonna look into WAR but I don't want more of the same :( I might just wait for DOW2.

I think WotLK is going to be boring as hell compared to WAR. For crying out loud, Blizzard, fething up the canon of the game is NOT fun. Furthermore, Death Knights are going to be so obscenely powerful that all the other classes will be redundant.
Get back to work on Starcraft 2 you bastards.

Stelek wrote:

Orlanth wrote:From what I have heard dont buy Warhammer Online if your computer cannot handle the very top end graphics processing. Anything less that a cutting edge graphics card and processor and it will not run properly.

Not true.

If you can't run it, turn the settings DOWN.

Doesn't even have antialiasing yet for heaven's sake.

I work in a major computer chain where we've had, in the last week, folks specifically come in to build machines for Warhammer Online and, really, it's not THAT much more intensive than WoW:BC.

You're talking about maybe $30 difference in video card, maybe an additional $20 in RAM. My one year old, mid-bottom of the line PC at the time runs Warhammer Online just fine, without even cutting much in the way of graphics.

I probably shouldn't advertise the company here, but PM me if you need any help putting together an inexpensive machine to play; I can refer you to the appropriate corporate site.

There has been a small drop off in postings here on dakka in the first week of WAR being released.

And noticably some of the hugely prolific posters have cut right back.

I'm sticking with Diablo 2 LOD thanks very much.