Warhammeralliance.com has posted several links detailing all the recent happenings in WAR for the past few weeks. If you haven't been reading there has been a lot of things going on. This post will get you up to date! Everything from the first WAR live expansion to the ComicCon '09 in NY. Here's the post from WarhammerAlliance.com:
There has been a lot of news from the WARfront these last couple of weeks.
From the announcement of
the Official Forums at the end of last week which brought it's own share of
praise and criticisms to the
earnings press release and
the number of current subscribers, it's been turbulent at times.
Not all news was controversial though. Before
The Night of Murder event went live, Mythic was once again having fun with
the with the
blogging community before announcing the event this last week along with the
upcoming Live Expansion,
Call to Arms featuring the much anticipated Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer.
Below is a brief summary of what transpired these last couple of weeks.
- 1/22 PhoenixRed uncovers some of the Mythic Social Networking blogs
- 1/22 The Greenskin's "Interesting" Mythic Package is the first of many
- 1/22 Choppa & Slayer Classes Un-Confirmed Rumors abound around the net
- 1/26 Ariwyn helped pull the community together by asking the question, A Vicious Valentine's Event?
- 1/29 The WAR Herald announced The First WAR Live Expansion "Call to Arms"
- 1/29 MMORPG.com Zone Control Interview with Mythic goes over the new system
- 1/30 Ariwyn posts the first Friday Folly: Paul Barnett "IRL". Some of Justin and Angie Webb's YouTube behind the scenes of Paul Barnett.
- 1/30 Official Forums - An Introduction posted by Mark Jacobs. His take on this "necessary evil" as it's been coined by others.
- 2/2 IGN's behind the scenes tour of Mythic Entertainment
- 2/3 Layoffs, subscribers, and earnings announced, discussed here and here.
- 2/4 Josh Drescher briefly gives his brief comments on the layoffs
- 2/4 Mark Jacobs address the state of WAR
- 2/4 Paul Barnett on YouTube gives us some insight on what we might see at the NYCC and that WAR is doing well in Russia
- 2/5 Eurogamer Interview with Paul, Jeff, Rob and Destin with questions from drop in subscription numbers to the new 'Tomb King" dungeon.
- 2/6 Mythic's Ryan Shwayder's Nerfbat blog addresses Garthlik, our site administrator, directly about the official forum announcement
- 2/6 Love Is in the Air, Night of Murder event goes live until 2/15
- 2/6 Patch 1.2 Sneak Peek goes into some details on what's coming with the Live Expansion, which addresses quite a bit; from crafting to RvR and of course the new classes with the live event "Bitter Rivals"
- 2/6 Ariwyn's Friday Folly: What to Expect at Comic Con '09 featuring a puppet of Paul Barnett...
- 2/7 Ariwyn Reporting from NYCC! with a link to her Twitter. Be sure to check that out as well as her write up for day one with video of the upcoming Choppa and Slayer classes.
With all of the news and how busy Mythic Entertainment has been lately, we have
a lot to look forward. After the the Live Expansion we're sure to get even more
news and announcements, and as is news' nature, some good and some bad.
Not all of the news was good, but none of it was bleak. So all I can say is
WAAAGH!
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