Just to respond to your comment about the starting areas -- my understanding is that they're simply having all players on each side start in the Chaos/Empire starting areas regardless of race, and will then be focusing development time on improving the starting area in that pairing. Nobody is getting dumped on the front lines separated from everything else. Nothing is stopping you from grabbing a flight master to the old racial starting area. They're just trying to consolidate all their players in a tighter area since, as anyone can tell you, WAR is no fun without other people around.

That said, I think it's too little too late. WAR could have been a great game, and I really wanted to like it. I like the concept of it, but the actual execution leaves much to be desired. WAR should have been the next big thing, but some dubious design decisions compounded with a final rush out the door resulted in a game that just seems to be missing . . . something.