Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning producers Jeff Hickman and Jeff Skalski attempted to calm the waves in the WAR community via letters to the players. The news of huge layoffs at Mythic (owned by Electronic Arts) was cause for concern among many MMORPGamers; clearly, in any such event, a game's future may hang in the balance when 40% of its development staff is laid off.
Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.
I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.
Kevin from Denkiphile: "The first I’d ever heard of Titan was at the height of my World of Warcraft career, which was also the same time that several games, touted as WoW-killers, came onto the market and failed miserably. It made sense to me at the time that the only thing that could kill WoW was Blizzard themselves, but this also eventually changed with the advent of session-based, microtransaction-supported games like League of Legends. Titan was supposed to revolutionize and revitalize the MMO genre, but it certainly was not the first to crash and burn before its first flight. Here are some MMOs whose ambitions flew them too close to the sun."
The closing of multiplayer services can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there just aren’t enough people using a product to justify keeping it running while in others it could be down to complicated legal wrangling, like expiring licensing agreements, or even a desire to bring out a new installment.
One thing is clear though – many of these discontinued games simply don’t deserve to die, to be cut down in their prime leaving players without a viable alternative and waste all that time the audience invested in them. With that in mind, this article will count down the 12 games least deserving of being shut down, the ones that players the world over wished had kept going.
How many people are currently subscribed to WAR?
i started playing the enless trial and im hooked, it just i feel it deserves its place somewhere next to WoW but from what i heard this game doesnt even have 1 mil suscribors anymore...
i might just start subscribing to this game because me and my friend play it and its just amazing to see a non WoW game that is so addictive. and what makes me feel even more attached to it is the more mature and more PvP/RvR game theme that WoW didnt have...
and honestly the classes and races in WAR imo are way better than in WoW (EXCEPT THE ORCS, i prefer warcraft orcs over any other fantasy im a diehard warcraft RTS player), when i play PvP in WAR i feel like im doing something and that every class has its part and not one class dominates everything like in WoW how everyone b**ches about the shammy, or pally, or warlock...
it just saddens me how i feel like this game isnt going to be around much longer. when the only reason its dying is because it was being hailed as the next WoW and then blizzard crushed it with the WotLC expansion. this game deserves players, im tired of WoW not only having a stranglehold on the mmo market but snuffing out any other title as well its plain unbeleivable.
i love WoW but my enjoyment for WAR has me speaking out and its sickening only seeing COUNT IT 8 servers available (mostly low populated) compared to the hundreds WoW has.
im sorry for the wall of text i just had to express my opinion of the people who make WoW possible i have been off WoW since last year and never will go back.
anybody else feel the same way or is there another reason WAR is dying that i am not seeing, because to me it had great reviews a great launch with not that many game killing bugs like mose mmos... idk... it just dissapoints me that this game is lost to players... hope it last because i want to join the war community and support it.
I don't think there's currently a shortage of players so much as now there's tension in the air with all the layoffs tat happened. Like:
there's the idea that the game might get stale because of not getting enough updates and/or bug fixes, which would lead to a number of players quitting, which may then lead to the game getting canceled so the devs can be put onto the teams that work for EA Mythic's other MMORPGs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot.
I share your hope.
This game deserves to die. To this day the devs never put forth enough effort to resolve the stability issues that plague this game. I would say that was the number one reason my whole guild moved onto other MMO's.
Just wait till you are doing end game city seiges and then you will see what I mean.