Yesterday Mythic announced further character transfers from servers that will be eventually closed. Since Warhammer Online was released in Sept 2008, there has been a steady exodus of gamers causing Mythic to close down servers. Below is a month by month list of how many servers have been announced to close since the game launched.
October 2008 – 19 servers
November – 8 servers
January 2009 – 1 server
February – 4 servers
March – 11 servers
After this latest character transfer announcement, it leaves Warhammer Online with 15 servers. Even though 15 servers is a decent amount, losing 2/3’s of your players base is not good news for Mythic. Having left Warhammer myself about a month ago, I can’t say I’m suprised. Can Mythic turn this around? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I never made it past T4, but I’m surprised that they are losing this many people, the game was not perfect, nor the servers, but isn’t this similar to Conan numbers? That game was was a lot worse than WAR.
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It still amazes me though that companies still try to release half-ass MMO’s. Half ass regular games are one thing (still stupid, but they make money anyway), but MMO’s take ALOT of time and that means money. If you’re not going to do it right, don’t bother. No excuse when its not even an independent developer.
My subscription ends in two weeks. I will not be renewing my account. This game was beta release with little extensive testing. I agree completely with Qix.
bah this game is like the best mmo out there currently. Wow is old and grind to 80? No thanks.
Warhammer is a great game. People are simply leaving because they had so much time already invested in another game, or dont have the patience for an mmo anyway.