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WAR | Presse Event mit War Onlinewelten
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 03. 2007 um 21:39 Uhr
Auf die Kollegen von Onlinewelten waren auf dem Presseevent von Mythic vertreten und berichten ebenfalls über ihren Aufenthalt dort.
Nach der Mittagspause ging die Präsentation zu Warhammer Online endlich los und Jeff und Paul führten zuerst das Imperium vor. Als die ersten Bilder des Imperiums auf der Leinwand erschienen, war mein erster Gedanke: „Nun wird keiner mehr sagen, dass Warhammer Online so aussieht, wie die Beschäftigungstherapie von Shavo und vielen anderen armen Seelen“. Kurz darauf ging es ans Probespielen des Bright Wizards, der ein reiner Feuermagier ist und alles mit Feuer bewerkstelligt, was immer er auch tut. |
Link: Zum Event-Bericht
Interview | Warcry interviewt Sanya und Josh
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 28. 2007 um 19:32 Uhr
Josh Drescher und Sanya Thomas haben den Kollegen von Warcry in einem Interview ein paar allgemeine Fragen zu Warhammer Online beantwortet.
WarCry Network:: As this is the first time we´ve spoken to you about Warhammer, can you give our readers the basic overview of what you´re trying to accomplish with this new game?
Josh Drescher: Achieving a player-base of 6 billion people (settling for MILLIONS of players is SO two years ago). Creating the single most enjoyable entertainment experience humankind has ever known. Total world domination. Stuff like that.
Oh, you mean IN the game. Just... uh... edit out the "world domination" part.
We´re trying to accomplish a great deal with WAR. We´re going to bring the Warhammer IP to life in a way that fans have never seen before. We´re going to take all of the lessons we´ve learned from DAoC and build a game that will excite our existing fan-base, and bring RvR to the masses.
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Link: Zum Internview
WAR | 56 neue Bilder in unserer Galerie
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 23. 2007 um 10:13 Uhr
Es gibt wieder neues zu bestaunen. Insgesamt haben wir 56 neue Screenshots in unsere Galerie geladen.
Link: Hier gehts zu Galerie
Interview | Erik Morgensen bei mmorpg.com
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 23. 2007 um 00:40 Uhr
MMORPG.com hat zusammen mit Erik Morgensen ein Interview durchgeführt. Sie unterhalten sich hauptsächlich um Warhammer und Mythic.
MMORPG.com:
2006 was a big year for Games Workshop with the launch of Mark of Chaos, the Dawn of War expansions, and of course the development of Warhammer Online. Can you give us some insight into what is on the plate for 2007?
Erik Mogensen:
First of all, I’d like to wish you and all the MMORPG.com fans out there a very happy New Year. 2007 is going to be very exciting for all of us!
Obviously, the big news for MMO fans is that there is now less than a year to wait until Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning’s release date. We all know how fast a year can go by! I’m afraid I’m going to have to resort to the old ‘nothing’s been announced yet’ regarding other projects. Sorry. Our other licensees THQ and Namco Bandai Games have plans in the works, but I’m going to leave it to them to reveal what’s cooking when they think the time is right. I’ll tell you this much: I’m very busy these days! |
Link: Zum Interview
Netzwerk | Wir starten durch mit Warhammer Online
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 17. 2007 um 17:30 Uhr
Es freut uns sehr euch den Start unserer neuesten Webseite aus dem Molgam Network bekannt zu geben. Einer Community Seite zu dem Spiel Warhammer Online aus dem Hause Mythic Entertainment. WIr wollen euch hier alle möglichen Informationen rund um das Spiel bieten. Zwar sind wir noch am Start mit sammeln von Informationen doch bald schon wird es auch hier eine Fülle an Videos, Screenshots, Artikeln und vielem mehr geben. Vorbeischauen lohnt sich. Zudem könnt ihr euch aktiv an Diskusionen in unserem Forum beteiligen. Ihr seid dort noch nicht registriert? Auch das ist kein Porblem. Besucht uns im Forum und meldet euch kostenlos an. Euch reicht das noch nicht und ihr wollt mehr? Dann bewerbt euch jetzt mit einer aussagekräftigen Bewerbung zur Mitarbeit an dieser Webseite. Oder schickt einen von euch geschriebenen Artikel an uns und wir werden sehen, was wir tun können. Schickt beides an folgende Emailadresse: jobs@molgam.net
Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß in der neuen Community!
WAR | Die Elfen als größte Rasse
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 17. 2007 um 16:59 Uhr
Adam ´Mythic-Gersh´ Gershowitz hat der Community im Warhammer Alliance Forum veraten, dass die Elfen zum Start (Neuerstellung des Charakters) hin die größte Rasse sind. Allerings werden sie nicht wie die Orks wachsen können. Auch wird vielleicht für einige Spieler eine Illusion genommen. Die Elfendamen werden nicht so gut bestückt sein, wie aus dem Trailer ersichtlich ist.
Facts on Elves
1) Black Eyes are cool, black eyes however were shot down by GW IP approval as a standard feature for all elves.
2) Elves are currently the tallest starting race in the game and are over 6FT easily. Chaos Warrior types might edge them out in the end, and Orcs will defiantely grow to be taller.
3) Elves are about 75% of the width at the shoulders of humans, and about 120% Taller. Compared to a Chaos Warrior Type, or an Orc an elf is easily 1/2 to 1/3 the width across the shoulder.
4) Elves (including Dark Elves) are not nearly as well endowed as the blur video suggests they might be. |
Link: Zum Beitrag von Gersh
Link: Kommentare im Forum (0)
Interview | Mark Jacobs postet auf F13.net
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 17. 2007 um 16:59 Uhr
Mark Jacobs meldet sich im Forum von F13.net zu Wort und beantwortet einige Fragen der Community. Zusätzlich wird einmal mehr der Aussage von einigen Spielern widersprochen, dass Warhammer ein World of Warcraft Klon wird.
Folks,
Hey all. Just some quick replies:
1) I´m also frustrated with the current state of MMOs. I think we *all* can do a lot better in the future than we are doing today. WAR is not intended to be Generic MMO # nor is it meant to be THE ONE GAME THAT CHALLENGES EVERYTHING AND MAKES YOU ITS B****! My jumping off point for it was the same as for DAoC, evolutionary game with some revolutionary features. Hopefully, there will be enough really cool stuff to get people excited but only time will tell. Truly revolutionary games will, as always, most likely be done by small studios, with small budgets and not by large companies, with large budgets and teams, much like the film industry. There are exceptions of course but as the budgets rise to heights that they have, the harder it is to get backing for something both revolutionary and expensive. That´s one reason I´ve always thought and spoken highly of guys who do games like ATITD and Puzzle Pirates. Maybe one day I´ll get to do a truly revolutionary game (I/Mythic) never had the chance in the past and prior to Mythic, getting money to do any online game was unbelievably difficult (as opposed to just incredibly difficult for Mythic), but I would like the shot at it sometime. Who knows, if WAR succeeds, maybe we get a shot at the title... |
 | Klick hier um mehr zu erfahren |
2) EA has not involved itself in the game design of WAR in any way whatsoever to date. I know you guys will find this hard to believe but so far, EA´s involvement in WAR has been only positive. We´ve gotten a larger budget, access to top technical resources (guys, gals and guides), lots of new hires (people aren´t as afraid of moving to Va. anymore and there are lots of people at EA who have been waiting to work on a MMO) and even more attention from the media. I´m not saying that everything is perfect but it wasn´t perfect when Mythic was an independent and so far, the acquisition has been a net positive for Mythic and for WAR.
3) As far as good ideas, we have always talked and listened to the community. Sometimes we heard the wrong thing, sometimes we listened to the wrong part of the community and sometimes we got it right. It´s a lot harder than anyone who hasn´t been through the mill a few times thinks to design, balance and then maintain these games but we will never stop talking and listening. It was for this reason we started WAR´s beta test months ago and are getting lots of feedback from hundreds of EA employees. Since it is, to some here, so easy, then why don´t we have a private forum set up here where you guys can talk about these ways to innovate for a game like WAR/WoW/EQ/etc. I´ll happily participate as long as three rules are followed: 1) No flaming. I don´t have the time nor inclination for that type of stuff anymore; 2) Any idea posted is posted with an acknowledgment that is given freely to the public domain; 3) That nobody expects me to post everyday or even that I respond to all posts/mail. Anyone is free to use it, not use it, get credit, not get credit, etc. I´ll tell you this though, any idea that someone posts there that I like and that I pass on to the design team, I´ll make sure that the person gets game credit for it as well as WAR swag. So, if you think you have some good ideas but nobody is listening, here´s your chance. I´ve always thought that there are lot of bright people here (as well as some who I would happily put in our of our catapults for a quick one-way trip just as some here would apparently love to do to me) and that´s why I´ve read and occasionally posted here forever (and I post almost nowhere these days).
4) I can also tell you that are intent is not to clone WoW or even do WoW 1.5. For some, that is hard to believe I know but that´s the last thing I would want to do for the same reason that I haven´t put a DAoC 2.0 into production. And let me tell you, given how many DAoC fans there are at EA, if I wanted to score brownie points with the new bosses, that would have been the first thing I did after the acquisition. I want WAR to stand on its own feet and have its own shot at fame/fortune. We´re not looking to get WoW sub numbers and that means we don´t have to do some things that would make the game more like WoW to achieve those numbers. WAR will be WAR and if anything, it will draw on DAoC more than WoW.
5) We have lots of new stuff that we will be talking about by the summer of 2007 that will show some of the different directions we are going in then some of the current MMOs. The nature of this industry is way to competitive and derivative to talk about them this early in the process and I´ve instructed marketing, design and community not to talk about them until much later in the process. I know this may sound like "Secret Tester Version and Features!" from some other games but it isn´t. We´ll talk about them when we can ensure that they appear in our game before somebody else´s game.
6) And no, there will not be RMTs in WAR, that was one of my ground rules going into the acquisition and EA, to their credit, didn´t want to see them in this game either. Just thought I would make this point again.
So, Happy New Year to all and to all, a good knight. Smiley
Mark
Link: Zum Betrag von Mark
Link: Kommentare im Forum (0)
Mythic | Paul Barnett bloggt weiter
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 17. 2007 um 16:58 Uhr
Paul´s Blog umfasst wieder einen neuen Eintrag. Dieser beschreibt seinen Werdegang bei Mythic und seine Zusammenarbeit mit Mark Jacobs.
Some people don´t really know that much about me. I mean they may have seen the videos, or the interviews. But on the whole my back ground is somewhat unknown.
So to give you a small insight I offer the speed read Barnett Approved background.
I came from the stereotypical poor northern family, we had nothing.
I´ve been playing computer games for 30 years (aggghhhh, I must be so old)
I wrote MUD´s back when that was new and exciting... |
| Klick hier um mehr zu erfahren |
One of my MUD´s did ever so well (Legends of Terris), actually after a year with the yanks I now realise that I should never say ´ever so well´ that´s typical English understatement, what I should do it copy my yank brothers and sisters, so lets try that again. Along with Doug Goldner I wrote and designed the largest commercial MUD in Europe that dominated the market and revolutionised parts of online gaming. How big was it? It was the largest thing AOL Europe had, we beat everything, we beat chat! In fact the only thing that beat us was search engine usage, imagine a game bigger than AOL UK´s email usage! There you see, that´s the yank way. So like I said, I wrote a little MUD and it made a bit of money. And that´s when I bumped into Mark Jacobs. I went off into creative business consultancy for ten years. During that period I started doing creative consultancy with Games Workshop. In fact I still do! About three years ago I was asked by Games Workshop to look at the original Warhammer Online. That lead to me and Mark Jacobs chatting and Mark doing that thing that only he can do. Next up he has the Warhammer licence with Games Workshops blessing and asked me to help out.
During my ten year sabbatical I had written books, plays, card games, board games, bought and sold an elephant, been to film studios, watched a mad man make a James Bond set, almost got shot, stabbed, blown up and other none sense.
When I got back to looking at Graphical MMO´s I was a little shocked to find out that things had not moved on that much. Most of the tough, horrible lessons I had learnt while writing my MUD turned out to be lessons that modern graphical MMO´s had yet to figure out. It´s like the renaissance all over again.
Mark and I come from different flavours of design thinking. In fact it´s because I am a different flavour that he and I get on so well. I have the deepest respect for his talent and drive and it´s his game we are making. And I am fully committed, but one day I would love the chance to have a crack at a game on my terms. And with that in mind I was cleaning out my spare desktop back in the UK and found an old document I wrote about my design thinking. Here is a snippet.
It´s not about clicking things endlessly
It´s not supposed to fuel the economy
It´s supposed to be fun
It´s supposed to be simple
It´s supposed to have discovery
It´s supposed to have internal logic
It runs to about seventy pages and it still held up today, always good to have your ideas tested on the anvil of time.
So far I am doing my bit to deliver on three main goals.
One: I want to realise as much of marks design vision as I can. It´s a tough ask the man aims high and we are only mortal.
Two: I want GW to be happy with the choice we have to make to deliver a great MMO with their licence.
Three: To try and add in a few sparkles from my view on design, here and there. Bits and bobs around the edges, fluff and pixie dust and boundless enthusiasm.
So hang around and read these blog pages. I think I will use them to muse on design and other bits of whimsy.
Thanks for stopping by.
Paul
Link Hier gehts direkt zum Blogeintrag
Link: Kommentare im Forum (0)
Mythic | Wird es Warhammer doch für die Konsole geben?
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 17. 2007 um 16:57 Uhr
Eine Stellenbeschreibung auf der Präsentz von EA.com verät, dass ein "Console Producer" für EA Mythic Warhammer Online gesucht wird. Ist dies ein Anzeichen dafür, dass dieses MMORPG auch auf der Konsole zu spielen sein wird?
"EAMythic is looking for a Producer to lead the production and design on an exciting EAMythic title being developed across next generation console platforms for the online MMORPG market."
Link: Zur Stellenausschreibung
Link: Kommentare im Forum (0)
Intern | Frohe Weihnachten
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 24. 2006 um 19:06 Uhr
Interview | Drei Interviews
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 23. 2006 um 00:43 Uhr
In insgesamt drei Interviews berichten die Internetseiten MMORPG.com, Killerbetties.com und Gamezone.com zusammen mit Paul Barnett und Jeff Hickman über Warhammer. Sie verschaffen einen guten Überblick über das MMORPG und sehr viele unterschiedliche Aspekte des Spiels sind vertreten.
EA Mythic´s Paul Barnett (Producer) and Jeff Hickman (Design Manager) answer questions at a telephone press conference.
Being only a call, this press conference was a little different. Fortunately, Paul Barnett and Jeff Hickman gave us a wealth of knowledge and insight into Warhammer Online. Trying to follow Jeff’s approach to the technical game mechanics and Paul’s wild eyed views on Warhammer creates quite a journey. If there ever was an Abbott and Costello of the MMO world it is certainly Paul and Jeff. We also have to thank Eddiemae Jukes of Kohnke Communications for hosting and managing the call. No easy task when these two get talking about Warhammer. So let’s get to the point, there’s a W.A.R. brewing and I am not talking about some dwarven keg of new ale, I am talking about battles, killing, RvR, PvP, and the ability to cut off your opponent’s head and stick it on your guild’s banner! |
Link: Interview auf MMORPG.com
Link: Interview auf killerbetties.com
Link: Interview auf gamezone.com
Link: Kommentare im Forum
Mythic | GOA sucht Verstärkung
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 23. 2006 um 00:09 Uhr
GOA sucht für Warhammer Online Verstärkung als Tester. Wenn ihr die Voraussetzungen erfüllt, dann tippt eure Bewerbung und los gehts.
- Muttersprache Deutsch
- Abitur oder besser (wissenschaftlicher Hintergrund erwünscht)
- Gute Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift
- Gutes Problemverständnis sowie die Fähigkeit verständliche und übersichtliche Berichte zu verfassen
- Gute Teamfähigkeit
- Sehr gute Kenntnisse über Videospiele, insbesondere MMORPGs
- Erfahrung mit dem Warhammer Universum erwünscht
- Vorherige Erfahrungen mit Tests von MMORPGs, besonders auch der Meldung von Fehlern
- Beherrschung der gängigen EDV-Programme (Word, Excel, PowerPoint...)
- Kenntnisse von Programmiersprachen sind von Vorteil
- Alles weiter findet ihr hier...
Link: Hier gehts zur Ausschreibung
Link: Kommentare dazu im Forum
Video | Videos auf WAR-RvR.net
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 23. 2006 um 00:08 Uhr
Als WAR-RvR.net auf der Gencon war, wurden zahlreiche Materialien aufgenommen, deren Verarbeitung reichlich Zeit in Anspruch nahm. Doch nun ist alles verwertet und das Ergebnis präsentiert sich in zwei Videos aus dem Spiel Warhammer Online.
Link: Hier gehts zum 1. Video
Link: Hier gehts zum 2. Video
Link: Kommentare im Forum
WAR | Serververeinigung
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 23. 2006 um 00:01 Uhr
Ein Projekt der Serververeinigung hat sich auf excessivewar.de.vu zusammengefunden und bereitet sich auf den gemeinsammen Start von Warhammer vor. Gemeinsam deswegen, weil die sich dort auftuende Community zusammen auf einem Server spielen wird.
Ziel ist es eine Herrausforderung durch im PvP aktive Gilden zu bekommen, sowie gleichzeitig auch mit Gilden in einer Fraktion zu spielen, die ebenso "was reissen können". Das ein solches Projekt große Vorteile bringt, wird klar wenn man an die Aussage von Josh Drescher, einem Producer bei Mythic bedenkt... |
Link: Hier gehts zu excessivewar.de.vu
Link: Kommentare im Forum
Beta | Erfahrungen aus der Alpha
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 03. 2006 um 14:58 Uhr
Eine angestellte Programmiererin von Mythic hat in einem Artikel über ihre Erfahrungen aus der Alpha von Warhammer Online berichtet.
Every day at work I sit at my cube waiting for the clock to roll around to 4pm. Want to know why? You know you do... RVR Testing in Warhammer. Oh yes, RVR how I missed thee, let me count the ways...
As Sanya pointed out, most people who read this blog are either fellow coworkers or former DAOC addicts. This is a /tease for all of you potential WAR players who may be salivating over the screenshots or waiting at the edge of your computer chairs for some sort of news emerging from the depths of Mythic´s deepest vaults... err Paul´s office  |
Sie geht hierbei weniger auf den aktuellen Status der Beta ein, sondern über den Spaß, den sie empfand.
Link: Hier gehts zu dem Artikel
Link: Kommentare im Forum
WAR | Die Größe ist nicht alles
Veröffentlicht von: Gryphus am 12. 2006 um 13:46 Uhr
Gersh hat sich im Forum von Warhammeralliance zu der Größe der Charaktere geäußert. Er gibt an, dass die Größe nicht gleich die Größe ist. Das bedeutet, ein Charakter fällt nicht nur durch seine effektive Höhe auf, sondern auch durch seine breite / Stämmigkeit.
FYI remember size isn´t wholey dependent on height alone. A 6ft tall orc is going to be more massive and have more presence then a 6ft tall human. Why? B/c he´s about a foot and change wider across the shoulders with a thicker chest.
You may find that elves actually wind up being one of the tallest races (esspecially given their helmets add an additional foot +) but they won´t seem to be the "largest" b/c they are very willowy and thin. |
Link: Zum Beitrag von Gersh
Link: Kommentare im Forum
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