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However, development has been frozen as the game is prepared to be launched as a Free 2 Play game supported by micro-transactions.From the original quotes in the Massively article, the success of the free trial is touted. I would start the year by pulling a Chronicles of Spellborn and announce that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is 100% free to play. Now, in the past I've had my own ideas for changing WAR: There aren't many success stories of MMOGs coming back from underwhelming launches. We don't want another of the infamous " New Game Experience (NGE)" from Star Wars Galaxies all over again.Īnother question is whether the money-handlers behind the game will approve sweeping changes that may affect the bottom line in the slim hope of increasing it over the long term. Any expansion will have to rely on work from some of Bioware's development teams as the layoff train hit Mythic pretty hard. If Bioware is becoming more involved with the game, this may be the breath of fresh air that WAR needs.
It is very strange to see Warhammer Online and Bioware mentioned in the same breath and have Bioware's talking head dictating where WAR is headed. I know Mythic and Bioware merged to create an "MMO group" within EA, but up until this point it was portrayed as though Mythic was responsible for Warhammer. And hey, it's good news! We're looking forward to our playable Skaven and Lizardmen, Mythic and BioWare. Another of Muzyka's comments on the title was, "We have new content planned and all kinds of cool expansions for it." We don't know how much more clear cut a message can be than that. In fact, by the sounds of it, Warhammer Online is due for some interesting announcements in the future. Ray Muzyka said of Warhammer Online, "Right now it's really profitable business unit within my group." Muzyka went on to say they've actually seen more people come into the game since enacting the free-to-play model on the game's earlier levels, and that he personally felt they were working. In a recent GDC 2010 interview with UGO, BioWare's Dr. Check out and come back later when I have some more time to opine. It’s more personal in terms of you not just being this over-arching power, than other games in this genre.There is a lot I want to say about this, but don't have the time currently. If spear-men come from a particular village, then there are less people left living there. Those people have to come from somewhere. If I have a village with fifty people I can’t just click on it and ask for a legion of people. And we want to move away from it being abstract. When you go and zoom in and look at a unit you can see them all in the world, and they’ll all be a little different. We really want you to be a presence within the game world, with your dynasty, with the way you design your units. What we wanted to do with Elemental is to make it more of a personal experience. The closest game I can think of is Master Of Magic, that’s been a bit of an inspiration for us. Wardell: Yes, it’s a 4X strategy game with a little Baldur’s Gate in it. RPS: So essentially a 4X game with more of an RPG heritage? However, Elemental and the concepts behind it pulled me in hook, line, and sinker after reading this post over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. I don't get interested in games very often by a single preview. From the lowest common denominator graphics, user generated content, multi-player for every play style, and complex simplicity Elemental is attempting to deliver a lot. If anything bad can be said about Elemental at this point, it is that the game may be too ambitious. The game is currently scheduled for a summer release ( Source) The Random House Group will also publish ELEMENTAL: DESTINY’S EMBERS (August 2010), a novel set in the world of Elemental, written by the game’s creator and executive producer, Brad Wardell. The in-game tools of Elemental are designed to let players create their own items, their own worlds, their own graphical elements to the world, their own creatures, their own races and pretty much anything else they might want to expand the game. Stardock is also pushing harder for more transparency and more straightforward statistics that are easier to understand ( Source) Stardock's aiming at a very low-system requirement ( Source)īy the end of the game, they’re a Sauron or Morgoth level of power ( Source) Martin's Game of Thrones is obviously a big influence on the designers ( Source) Yes, it’s a 4X strategy game with a little Baldur’s Gate in it. While reading up on the game, I've come across several key phrases that have sold me on the game. Elemental, a 4X game in development by Stardock, has a lot of promise.
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