Mythic putting off Warhammer expansion work to focus on live game

by Michael Zenke on Dec 7th 2008 1:00PM

Fantasy, Expansions, Patches, Warhammer Online

In a lengthy thread over at the VN boards, players began offering up a number of thoughts about what they'd like to see in the first expansion to Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer Online. They had a couple of great ideas, too, with thread-starter DiscipleofWar suggesting it focus on the fabled Land of the Dead. That would allow players to come up against the forces of the Tomb Kings, fun objective-based gameplay for each faction, and even the introduction of a new third 'Dogs of War' army that will allow players to play ruthless mercenaries.

Surprisingly, Mark Jacobs dropped in to add his own view on the conversation. Mr. Jacobs states that they are actually not working on the expansion at all right now, other than in theoretical design work. The reason is very straightforward: "We are not pushing an XPack out the door at the expense of WAR. And once we begin work on an XPack, it's going to take us quite a while to do it." They don't want to take away from the tuning problems and issues that Warhammer currently has just to push on to an expansion. Good on you, Mythic! Music to the players' ears, we imagine.

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Tags: breaking, expansion, mark-jacobs, mythic-entertainment, war, war-patch-1.1, warhammer-online

Reader Comments (22)

Well it makes sense. WAR hasn't been out for that long. It's way to early to be talking of expansion packs if you ask me.

But honestly I don't know what it would take to keep me playing this game anyways. WAR is a simple casual game in a lot of ways and that's what I like about it but also why I'll probably cancel soon. It just can't hold me like LOTRO or WOW. And I realize that it's really not trying to be either of those games which is great but not quite good enough....To me the game could actually be a good second MMO but I can't help thinking that I can get that same PVP rush playing Team Fortress 2 or something. It needs a better crafting system and more variety to the gear etc. I need more "fluff". Maybe they just need to drop the subscription price to $10/month...

I think the issue here is that people are so brainwashed into thinking they have to "rush to endgame" like with WOW that they miss 90% of a normal game in the process.

What exactly is end-game.. think about what it says.. ENDGAME. It's over.. you hit the level cap. Ok, you have the max exp/health/stats. There you have it.

Most games don't dumb everything down to the point that WOW does. That's why it's so universally attractive.. I hate to say it, but most PVP folks are zombies that are used to grinding. It's all they know. I think everyone has forgotten how to ENJOY a game!

SLow it down, take your time, go explore.

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