Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC)

“This is a 3.5/5 I rounded to 4 though. First the good stuff. I loved beta, it was the best game I ever played when I played it in beta before it released...then it actually released and all hell broke loose. It was mostly due to...”

“This is a 3.5/5 I rounded to 4 though.

First the good stuff. I loved beta, it was the best game I ever played when I played it in beta before it released...then it actually released and all hell broke loose. It was mostly due to over-expectations from mythic who decided having way too many servers was better than not enough. Then people started quitting because of imbalances/crapatches/graphics lag/etc. and it really tore apart very fast. I even preordered this beast and ended up quitting the 3rd or 4th day because the game hitched like no other.

Well I'm basing this review on the current patch that I just tried for about 2 days;

Basically, they fixed the graphics lag, they fixed some imbalancing, well a lot actually, they added an entirely new area for 25~endgame, added some endgame PvE content, fixed up keep seiges/RvR, added 4 new classes, etc.
Now while this is great and all it feels like one of those too little too late situations...I really doubt this game will start getting back any numbers unless they pull a turbine. From the looks of it, they are starting to do that actually. When patch 1.3.2 came out recently they made the trial an unlimited amount of time. So you can get onto the game and stay rank 11 for however long you want, this could mean they are either 1) just trying to attract more players into wanting to buy the rest of the game or 2) they are testing around to see if they would profit from making the game completely, or partially F2P.

In my opinion, they need to have it F2P and some sort of P2P or cash shop content....the only thing I can think of is if they make some armor/weapons that is overpowered and sell it in the cash shop but that would really suck. Honestly I cannot think of a way they could do it but they really need to if they want people to come back and play their game. Either that or just ditch this and create warhammer 40k lol I'd pay for that without a doubt.

Anyways, the game is great pvp is wonderful skills are very strategic and everything is great. The only thing I don't like is the population is low for one, and for another they have too many maps for RvR. Just combine everything into one large sized map and only make like 5 things to capture instead of 3x3, it gets too complicated having to switch maps to RvR and being too spread out when leveling and such.”

“Fun until end game, patches have been applied but grew bored and cancelled sub before they hit.”

“Fun until end game, patches have been applied but grew bored and cancelled sub before they hit.”