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WarHammer Online: Age of Reckoning Worldwide Release
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 01:03pm 16/05/08 | 24 Comments
EA have announced WarHammer Online: Age of Reckoning will have a simultaneous worldwide release (which means technically we and New Zealand get it first) this spring (presumably our spring) along with a dedicated regional server to ensure a more stable and well-monitored Aussie gaming experience. You'll still have the option of connecting to North American servers though, according to the press release.
"Warhammer is a world-wide franchise with a strong following in Australia and New Zealand. By placing our own server down under and running customer service out of EA Mythic, we can ensure that when we launch WAR, Oceanic players will experience the same quality of game play and customer service as North American players" said Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager of EA Mythic.
It's nice to see we're being looked after and recognised by he gaming community at large. We have some information and screens about the game on our WarHammer Online: Age of Reckoning game page so stay tuned as we add even more info, videos and screens as they become available.












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Beanith
Posted 01:42pm 16/5/08
Sounds good to me. With any luck, shift workers from the US will be able to see and join the oceanic which should help increase the server pop.
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Taipan
Posted 02:06pm 16/5/08
Awesome news about there being a local server for Aussies and with any luck it will be an ongoing trend with more games in the future. Now all they need is a method for keeping all the Chinese farmers off the servers though I doubt that'll ever happen, sadly.
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Tim Tibbetts
Posted 02:14pm 16/5/08
That is pretty fucking awesome. Not sure if I will play the game, but this is great news!
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trog
Posted 02:45pm 16/5/08
Is it? I know I've heard a lot of people asking for local servers, but then some of the people I know that play MMOs regularly tell me it'd be lame because there wouldn't be enough people (even for something like WoW) to keep it alive?
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Khel
Posted 03:33pm 16/5/08
Yeah, I doubt I'd play on an Australian server, busier server is better otherwise the ingame economy just ends up sucking. Plus its good having a decent amount of people who aren't from our timezone on the server, so that if you're playing at odd hours theres still enough people on to be able to run instances and do shit.
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groganus
Posted 03:42pm 16/5/08
i like playing on us servers because im a shift worker.
whilst an aussie server sounds cool and all that, i enjoy the fact taht us servers are always busy due to there crazy lifestyles.
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kr0wb4r
Posted 03:57pm 16/5/08
I think there are many more aussie's playing mmo's than most would expect, in wow there are ton's spread out across many servers. I have a few american shift workers in my guild and they've said they don't care about getting the extra ping to an aussie server, as long as it's busy when they're on (which it is/would be).

Great news imo, my guild is considering rerolling to this after we give it a crack.
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darkjedi
Posted 04:01pm 16/5/08
It's actually good to see them giving us a server downunder and I really hope it succeeds as should it fail miserably, then it's unlikely any other company will put the effort in again in the future.

Not entirely sold on WHO though, ausgamers exclusive beta test would be nice *nudgenudge* :P
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ravn0s
Posted 07:47pm 16/5/08
excellent news. also i assume americans will be able to connect to the aussie servers too, so that should give a boost to the pop.

Not entirely sold on WHO though


its WAR. WHO was the old warhammer mmo that got scrapped.

also steve theres no capital 'h' in warhammer.
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Jim
Posted 07:53pm 16/5/08
false
http://www.mythicentertainment.com/
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ravn0s
Posted 08:16pm 16/5/08
whats false?

edit: according to the warherald the server is situated in mainland australia.

Where will the server be located?

The game server will be located on mainland Australia and service New Zealand, Singapore, and other surrounding South East Asian territories.


last edited by ravn0s at 20:16:47 16/May/08
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Jim
Posted 08:17pm 16/5/08
it's called warhammeronline AND IT HAS A CAPITAL H!!!!1
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ravn0s
Posted 08:26pm 16/5/08
only in the logo. not when its typed in the way steve did.


last edited by ravn0s at 20:26:56 16/May/08
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Jim
Posted 08:55pm 16/5/08
well we're going to have to get that fixed, emailing mythic now
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wellwellwell
Posted 11:50pm 16/5/08
It's actually WAR, Warhammer online: Age of Reckoning even Mythic call it WAR watch some podcasts.
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sif greazy
Posted 12:07am 17/5/08
While I expect great things from WAR, I'm still holding my breath until I play the beta or something.

I think the argument is about whether the "h" in warhammer a capital or not. Like wellwellwell above me said, its Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

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Fireblood
Posted 12:22am 17/5/08
OMG! I looooved the Warhammer world as a kid!
If I had time I would sooo sign up. :( FUCKING TIME!
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Khel
Posted 02:13am 17/5/08
Maybe it should be WHOAR then to please everybody.
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Fireblood
Posted 03:14am 17/5/08
Lol, wow and whoar!

I think that'll stick!
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Keato
Posted 01:24pm 17/5/08
I will play it, on the Aussie server, I am prepared to pay for a slightly quieter experience if it encourages future thought into our gaming market.

A little pain now for a little love later.

IMO, Ausgamers should host :)
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Taipan
Posted 04:24pm 17/5/08
As good as a local server would be I will gladly suffer a double ping if it means playing on servers with less Asians. I have played games that are open the Asian countries before and quite frankly I'll never be doing it again.
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casa
Posted 04:52pm 17/5/08
hmmm play on an aussie server with 17832976 people who arent fuck heads.
or play on an american server with 17832976 fuck heads who arent people.
then theres American non-prime time, which consists of about 4 fuckheads and no one else.
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Obes
Posted 05:37pm 17/5/08
imo keato should pl me
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sif greazy
Posted 07:29pm 17/5/08
As good as a local server would be I will gladly suffer a double ping if it means playing on servers with less Asians. I have played games that are open the Asian countries before and quite frankly I'll never be doing it again.
There has to be a good story behind this.
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