Warhammer Online Sees Massive Content Removal To Make Launch

Zonk is reporting that the Warhammer Online team has decided to keep their launch deadline firm. Unfortunately, in order to do so, they are pulling quite a few things from the game. Four of the six capital cities are being removed, as well as four of the character classes (two of which were considered the primary "tanking" classes for their race). The team emphatically claims that this has nothing to do with EA. Does this hurt their chances for success more than simply delaying the launch date?

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Still should be fun

[EvilGoodGuy]

The summary is a bit misleading. 4 classes are out, but there are around 20 so it's not that big o a deal. And the capital cities aren't like that in EQ and WoW. You get to them later in the game for PvP purposes. So there will still be plenty to look forward to and have fun with in Warhammer :)

Re:This is why Blizzard is so seuccesful

[ScytheBlade1]

You're exactly right, I'm basing that entire post from a WoW player's perspective.

And sure, not everyone plays or has played WoW that will play AoC/Warhammer.

But if these are of any remotely correct value:
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart2.html
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart3.html
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart5.html

Suddenly you can see why I based my post off of that. Nothing even compares, even a little bit.

Every other MMO that has been released or will be released in the near future has been hailed by one person or another as the "great WoW killer" and in that regard, they have all failed.

It's just my opinion that they will all continue to keep failing until we get a company willing to push the release dates back enough to get a decent game out.

Re:This is why Blizzard is so seuccesful

[Daswolfen]

Except for how they're launching WotLK without the actual Lich King. He'll be patched in before the NEXT expansion comes out.

I haven't seen this anywhere, but even if he isn't patched in on day one, they have stated from the beginning that it would take a whole raid full of 80s to take Arthas (you know him.. the Lich King.. undead guy on the frozen throne with Frostmourne). Considering the length of time it would take to gear up raids full of 80s, patching him later is a smart move. Besides... it is the SAME THING they did with Kael'thas Sunstrider in patch 2.4 when the introduced the Sunwell Plateau. You see... Blizzard has been really good about making content patches as well as bug patches, so anyone who has played WoW for more than a minute knows this.

Also, the instances/raids/zones of Dire Maul, various Battlegrounds, Blackwing Lair, Zul'Garub, Silithus, Ahn'Qiraj, Naxxramas, The Black Temple, Zul'Aman, and Sunwell were all released as free content patches (when other companies [i.e. Sony] would charge for them). This does not include all the 'fun' stuff like world events and changes to the environment.

Blizzard knows content is king, but they also know that you WoWheads will keep paying for their lame expansion packs.
Once again, your ignorance is showing. We are about to get the second expansion in the 4 years WoW has been around, if the rumored November release dates hold. Lets look at some of the other 'big' MMORPGS and see how they hold up.

Ultima Online Released 1997, Expansions released in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007 with one another on the horizon. Peak subscribers - 250,000.

Everquest Released 1999. Expansion released two expansion packs in 2000, 2001, 2002, and two every year for 2003-2007. That's a $30.00 expansion pack every 6 months! Peak subscribers - 430,000

Everquest II Released 2004 (going directly head to head with WoW). Expansions in 2005, two in 2006, and 2007. There was also 3 'Adventure Packs' released in 2005 and 2006 that were paid for equivalents of WoW's content patches. Peak subscribers - 350,000

Which brings us too...
World of Warcraft Released 2004, Expansion in early 2007, with a second to be relased this year acording to rumor. It has also released numerous FREE content patches (see above) that would be considered expansion packs in other MMORPGS. Peak Subscribers - over 10 MILLION worldwide.

So you keep drinking the 'Hater-ade' and 'QQ Moor' about something you obviously know nothing about, or at the very least bothered to google before spouting off and showing you are way south of GWB (or moss covered rocks, for that matter) in the intellect scale.