Warhammer Online - Producer's Message to Beta Participants

The next phase of the WAR Beta is up and running, and Senior Producer, Jeff Hickman, and Creative Director, Paul Barnett, have an extra special welcome back video for the troops. It's a bit on the long side (these guys love to hear themselves talk!), but this video is entertaining as hell and packed with all kinds of great information about the game. If you are at all curious about what the team has been doing for the past couple of months and want to know what new features they have put in the game, this is a must watch!

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• EA
• Warhammer
• WAR
• Mythic
• MMO
• MMORPG
• Jeff
• Hickman
• Paul
• Barnett

[swiggydiggy]

WoW didn't invent MMOs. Played WoW for six months, got a priest up to 51 back when the cap was 60, and am currently playing the warhammer preview weekend. They are not anything alike except in theme (which can't be helped), and the fact that they're MMOs, which all play damn near the same anyway. Please be informed of what you're opining on the next time you have an opinion, it'll save us all a lot more time.

[swiggydiggy]

you've got to be effing kidding me. Warhammer came out in 1983. christ.

[Bluejackels]

Love it when Wow fans say that Warhammer copied Wow, wat a load of bullshit!

I got some news wow fans, Wow wasnt the first MMO to use alot of the stuff which you say Warhammer copied

[squidvis]

aw it shoulda been longer! u guys are funny

damn u CJ!!! haha jk

[Dentareem]

If we're saying that WoW copied WH when it comes to being 'fantasy' based, can't we then go as far back to say that WH copied it's fantasy base from LOTR? And then say that Tolkien copied his ideas from folk lore or whatever.

No matter what you do, no matter how original you try and be, there's ALWAYS going to be similarities to some other source somewhere else in the world.

Espically in fantasy! Of course WH and WoW are alike! But they're about as alike to each other as they are to LOTR.

[JaakuDrachir]

Isn't it amusing when idiots talk out of their asses and assume everything copies WoW?

[FFSINEEDANAME]

That is because wow was designed by people that played EQ and other MMOs, however the fantasy theme was a copy of WH.

[glitch91]

WoW also stole its actual gameplay from EQ. A developer would have to be completely retarded to to copy some aspect of what has been proven to be effective in past games.

[TheStig000]

that was pretty awesome

[brandonawood]

Blizzard stole Warcraft from Warhammer Fantasy, and they stole Starcraft from Warhammer40k, each that have been around 10+ years before Blizzard's "creative" plagiarism.