Anyone playing Warhammer Online?

[northwind]

Let me rephrase that, which of us nerds is playing Warhammer Online? Someone's bound to be :D Not got it yet because I assumed launch would be a fiasco, but apparently not, might pick it up tomorrow

[TazDaz]

Looks a bit too much like World of Warcraft for my liking. (Had a stint of that when it first came out!)

[Jayneflakes]

40K?

If I can digitise my Kaos Marines I might be tempted...

I used to paint War Hammer 40 000 troops with my brother about ten years ago. He was Space Wolves and I was Kaos. Then he stole my ones, little git... Paints them with his wife these days.

[ThEGr33k]

No way! It looks like warcraft online with a new name and a little bit different content. Graphics look terrable and it just isnt cool :( they should have made it 40K online... something different to Warcraft! :rolleyes:

Jayne I also was a Chaos 40K player... G33k. Still have a load of them about but I havnt played with them for like 8 years. heh.

[falc]

Its the original/old warhammer, apparently it seems alright but very similiar to World of Warcraft so it will have a hard time tempting players.

Warhammer 40k online is being made and will be out in a couple of years, that promises to be quite good.

Also an article on the register said since world of warcraft was released Blizzard (who run/make it) spent 200 million on upkeep, so thats staff wages, maintaining the servers etc etc. from when it was released a couple of years ago. Since then they have made about 3.5 billion in profit from subscription fees, do the maths and me thinks this online playing lark is quite a money spinner ;)

[ChrisCaveman]

I'm certainly considering it, but I'd like a recommendation from someone first before I go and spend £30 on it :)

Is anyone on here playing? If so, let me know what server you're on!
:)

Looks awesome though.....might go and get it anyway.... :D

[SoulKiss]

Its the original/old warhammer, apparently it seems alright but very similiar to World of Warcraft so it will have a hard time tempting players.

Warhammer 40k online is being made and will be out in a couple of years, that promises to be quite good.

Also an article on the register said since world of warcraft was released Blizzard (who run/make it) spent 200 million on upkeep, so thats staff wages, maintaining the servers etc etc. from when it was released a couple of years ago. Since then they have made about 3.5 billion in profit from subscription fees, do the maths and me thinks this online playing lark is quite a money spinner ;)

Actually it was only 200,000

As for Warhamster Online - will have to see more of it before deciding to jump.

[hovis]

no

[falc]

Actually it was only 200,000

As for Warhamster Online - will have to see more of it before deciding to jump.

Nope your wrong, 200 million dollars over 4 years. so roughly 110 million pounds. I doubt in this day and age you could get your water coolers serviced for less than 200,000 over 4 years.

Linky (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/world_of_warcraft_upkeep_200m/)

Also 1.35bn dollars a year, not a bad little earner :)

[ThEGr33k]

Actually it was only 200,000




How can it be only 200,000!? Thats like paying 1/2 person for 4 years! i think 200Million is more like it... especially since the servers must be worth a fortune with the player numbers they have to deal with.

If you are right about the 40K version it may be interesting to see what that is like :) Im not sure how they are going to get around space marines not thrashing the nackers out of everything else (like they do in the stories)... guess they will be ultra watered down so its all "fair", or we wont be able to be them. Sigh.

[northwind]

No way! It looks like warcraft online with a new name and a little bit different content. Graphics look terrable and it just isnt cool :(

Nah, you've been seeing the beta screenshots, they only worked with low detail settings (even then, they weren't much different to WOW). The in-game ones are much better, better than WOW for sure. From what I've seen and from every review the gameplay's very different to WOW. The content was always going to be similiar since WOW looted Warhammer so much in the first place, but apparently the gameplay is very different, mainly because of the RvR stuff.

[ThEGr33k]

RvR? Got to say I havnt done a great deal of investigation into this. Might play the 40K one when it comes out.

[northwind]

Realm vs realm... Basically, it's got player vs player that works and is worthwhile. That's the big difference, looks like, it was never much good in wow, no real consequences and not much benefit either.

[nik_nunez]

never played WOW but played lineage 2 alot, well use to until i sold my account (nice little money earner, played for 2 years sold it all for about £3k - crazy i know)- those online games are massive money earners use to be so many ppl online it was nuts - glad i sold up as i spent far to much time playing it, was still fun tho

[Ace-T]

Hubby has just loaded this on his PC. Initial thoughts are it is a WOW clone but the graphics are not quite as cartoony. Conan is the best for graphics - it looks fabulous - but there are so many irritating and unnecessary bugs in it. Having said that Hubby has now hit level 72/80 in Conan, the highest he has got in any MMORPG before he gets bored with it.

Hubby used to work for Games Workshop and it is quite funny seeing all the guys names he used to work with on the credits :)

I have dumped WOW and LOTRO in favour of Tabula Rasa. I think it is best described like a MMORPG of Starship Troopers and the gameplay is more along the lines of an FPS rather than the traditional MMORPG style of play. It is an absolute hoot to play and I am just having a break from it now!

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Hope to see you there :)

Trace :)

[northwind]

Is that the Richard Garriot thing? Looks ace actually.

[Dangerous Dave]

Sorry, completely computer retarded but is this like a shot'em up game online?

[Ace-T]

Is that the Richard Garriot thing? Looks ace actually.
Yes to both - want me to refer you for a free trial?

Trace :)

[northwind]

Nah... It does look good but I need my orc fix, just bought myself warhammer.

[TazDaz]

Sorry, completely computer retarded but is this like a shot'em up game online?

I haven't played it but I believe it is the type of game where you have to spend a lot of time leveling your character, going on quests etc before you can partake in pvp competitivly.

I used to play games like this, then realised I was looking a little pale due to lack of sunlight! :)

Now I just play shoot em ups every now and then. Into Call of Duty 4 at the minute!

[ukgooner]

Playing WarHammer online and it seems good at the moment, but I am only lvl 12, no real bugs that I have noticed as yet, the RvR is quite cool and I usually hate any PvP as there is usually a class that is >> all the others.

Played WoW until the first expansion, was OK, but too many kids, played LoTRo, that was OK but got borring, played Age of Conan, but rolled the wrong character and just die all the time, and with the bugs I have had enough!!

I really should stop playing them, but they are kinda adictive (EQ since 2000 - 2007 is not good for relationships!!)

[ThEGr33k]

I haven't played it but I believe it is the type of game where you have to spend a lot of time leveling your character, going on quests etc before you can partake in pvp competitivly.

I used to play games like this, then realised I was looking a little pale due to lack of sunlight! :)

Now I just play shoot em ups every now and then. Into Call of Duty 4 at the minute!


Im similar, used to play UT2K4 a lot then tried Eve and got adicted until I realised that you had to spend about 9 days a week trying to make enough money to fund a Battleship fettish. A ship that would last about 5 seconds if you run into a few enemies :(

So now I play UT3 online amongs things off line. I bought Half life + extrensions through steam for £9 so playing through blue shift atm :)

Northwind, let us know what you think! Out of interest you not playing Eve anymore? Like I said I got fed up with it :( Its annoying because if you dont always fly in a damn fleet you will be popped all the time :mad:

[northwind]

Nah, I'm still playing Eve, I just fancied a change...

So far, my WAR experience is a bit wobbly. Lots of tech problems, frinstance their registration website doesn't work with firefox, and I had to change hte password 5 times before I could log onto the patch server. I still go through the patch server every time I start playing, which takes up to 5 minutes, and sometimes it takes the same again to find the server list. Annoying...

But the gameplay's very good. It has a brilliant sense of place, feels more like a single player RPG in a lot of ways though obviously full of other players. Not a lot of chat/interaction so far, but then the early quests are designed for solo. Not done any publics quests yet. It's a nice pick-up-and-play game, remains to be seen how involving it is in the long run. Quite impressed though.

[Nick762]

Um..... err....... *holds hands up*

I came to WOW quite late, it had already been running for several years and since they haven't added any new servers for a while I found that as a noob there weren't all that many genuinely new players. Even the apparent low levels had high level "alts" who supplied them with superior gear. There's a lot of "boosting" through dungeons now i.e. you get a high level character to walk you through, kill the monsters and you just claim the loot. If anyone has played properly you will know that there's nothing like going through the Deadmines with a group of level 20s, clearing out the goblins forge by the skin of your teeth and then experiencing that knot of fear when you see those 3 elites coming down the ramp towards you... Boosting just doesn't work so well IMO :(

Thought I'd try Warhammer because not being a mature game there shouldn't be this imbalance although I guess there will always be those who sit up all night levelling :smt015 On first impressions it is similar enough to WOW to be fairly intuitive, a lot of the controls are identical. The early level mobs are much more aggressive than those in WOW although saying that, they don't yet seem to run away to get help but then so far I'm only playing against level 5s max. Not sure if there's any dueling either so I haven't a clue how the pvp combat works. I'm playing on a 2GHz laptop which is a bit under spec but the game doesn't appear to be too laggy although there have been some delays when moving into new areas.I'll see if it runs any quicker on the desktop which is a meatier machine.

I did have some problems with the patch server logon; it kept saying my details were invalid even though I had been through the full registration and confirmation process. Eventually I got it to accept my details but only after leaving the "remember my name" box unchecked... go figure.

At some point I hope to get around to reading the manual.

I'll see how it goes. I also tried "Pirates of the Burning Seas" for a while but wasn't impressed... little things like the loading screens every time you walk into a building, the environment just wasn't as seemless as I was used to.


* Oh yeah.... and there's something like a 1 gig download of patches when you first log on (although it didn't take too long... half an hour or so)

[northwind]

Yeah, the first patch is bigger than the entire Eve Online client :D

Played it a bit more, I like it a lot now... Done my first public quests, which are a bit too obviously a game (by which I mean they're more like a sport, with teams, rather than a fight- and very scripted. Not very immersive at all), done some exploring, reached level 5.

It suits casual play very well, you can easily dip in and out. Not a lot of player interaction, it's more like Diablo than anything else I've played in that, you use the chat to form gangs but that's about it. Not joined a guild though.

It's a wee bit repetetive though, maybe it's just my character (a dwarf engineer name Qualcast) but every fight is just press 4 buttons in the same order. I played a marauder for a bit (he looks like Glenn Danzig, and is called Glenndanzig) and they're a wee bit more dynamic to play but not so nice to look at. The Dwarf regions are lovely...

It's very good. Better than WOW, in my own limited experience, the look is better and the atmosphere and sense of place is much better. Also, lets not mess about here, the worst thing about WOW is the players :D I don't like that death has no real consequences, that always seems daft to me, you don't even lose gold or experience i think- you just get a 15 minute debuff. That's fairly weak.

Still prefer Eve though, it has more sense of community and immersion and permanence. I like that Eve punishes you for screwing up, losing a ship is a real loss, and I prefer the Eve skill model too- Warhammer is very strictly class and level based, and feels incredibly restrictive after Eve's "Do anything" approach.

But they're very different games, and there's room for both ;)