I played as a Dwarf Ironbreaker and got all the way to T4. Never got my Slayer or Knight of the Blazing Sun off the ground, and for that I am sad. Had a great time with my Guild, Hammer of Grugni, and running those raids against destruction players was some fun times. A damn shame that it couldn't hold the player base. Maybe, just maybe, we can get a Warhammer MMO we deserve now that, thankfully, EA lost the rights to that property.
WAR gave me two and a half years of fun, albeit with more than its fair share of ranting - and the roflstomping was the symptom of a much wider problem with balancing and encouraging subscribers, particularly if you were unfortunate enough to be a newcomer to the game walking into Tier 4 for the first time... However, completely agree that the game had a surprising amount of depth in the non-PvP areas that most people never went to as there was no reason to, except for that depth. Again, considering the PvP focus, they actually churned out some very memorable PvE dungeon content. There was a lot that WAR did well, and lots more that it desperately tried to do well - but ultimately just got it wrong. I'll miss WAR, but I don't regret walking away when I did. It seems appropriate at this point to hand over to the Army of Gnoblars, and their final, bittersweet WAR song Story of an MMO, which was written at the point of leaving the game.
WAR was for me a great game, met people with I'm still gaming. The RvR wasn't the best, but I had a lot of fun in it. Sure it could have been better (each Race a separted faction, all 6 cities, ...). I have stopped playing WAR when the RvR changes came with the Skaven-Update, it just wasn't my cup of tea. Farwell WAR, I hope I see an Warhammer Fantasy-MMO-Game again!
I think that hits the nail on the head. Our multi-game guild formed out of two greenskin and chaos guilds which allied with each other, moved servers together and, eventually, went on to other games as a reasonably consistent group. We've also run into people who played on Order side during SWTOR and GW2 and had a mix of renewing old rivalries and, in some cases, welcoming them into our group of associated madmen (and women). In the relatively short time I've spent on these forums, I've spotted two former WAR players that I recognised and have been recognised by two others. It was a game that led very nicely to healthy rivalries between individual players - something I'd love to see happen in EC, although the mahoosive-single-server setup will probably make that impractical.
it was sad towards the end, but all the same had some great memories in that game more than I did with any other that still hang with me today. The look of the game was amazing a little too flashy when there were big battles, RVR was fun but became repetitive at times, I wish they had put more thought into an end game and with the expansions, although I did like how the land of the dead turned into a huge gankfest. always found the dungeons buggy. enjoyed both playing with friends and had some great adversaries, towards the end cheating became real problem, sad that even saw some people I had played with since the game started talk about cheating just to level the playing field. Brings up fond yet sad memories...I wont say goodbye in hopes someone manages to do something with it how about, get well soon.
Playing Warhammer Online was the most fun I had in an MMORPG. Roaming in a small group, solo or as a duo going up against a much larger force was exhilirating. Leveling solely through PvP and RvR, trailing the Destruction renown farming warband and mopping up afterward, defending and attacking keeps and fortresses, finally getting to the opposing capital city were what made the game worth playing. The best part of it all were the natural rivalries that developed as a result of having fun in RvR lakes. The community was more mature than any other MMO game I played. The world was rich and developed. The game definitely had problems and the developers did not keep many promises which they made to the community. The game could have been so much more in my opinion, but I cannot talk about what could have been; what should have been.
Here is the very last fight in Praag when they pulled the plug on War.... http://www.twitch.tv/neutrinoz/c/3415497
