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Five Years of Warhammer Online Content

[May 09, 2008, 09:06 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

GamesIndustry.biz quotes EA Mythic designer Josh Drescher says that Warhammer Online is being designed with longevity in mind, saying they have about five years worth of content:

"All the under-the-hood numbers all actually scale through the next five years," he said.

"What you don't want is when you launch the game you've got 40 levels - and it takes however long it takes to get to level 40. You then launch an expansion and it now takes two weeks to get to level 40 because now we need everyone to spend six months to get from level 40 to 50," Drescher added.

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13.	Reading comprehension is good!	May 10, 2008, 04:42	esloan
	Some of you folks need better reading comprehension. At no point does Josh say they have 5 years worth of content finished. He says that they have numbers that scale through five years and "We have actually five years' worth of numerology out in front of us in terms of all that,". That does not mean five years worth of solid content. I think Mythic is doing what most MMOs do, and that is to have a semi-solid plan of where the game is supposed to be in five years. I guarantee Blizzard had almost five years mapped out. Now this doesn't mean they will meet those goals but they have a plan.

12.	Re: My request, allow us to play....	May 9, 2008, 22:28	verybad
	Not 5 years of PLAYTIME 5 years of PAY. It's EA... They'll add content when paying players go down. This message was edited at May 9, 22:28.

11.	Re: My request, allow us to play....	May 9, 2008, 21:28	z0dd
	I'm pretty sure they mean they already have plans to add content for the next for 5 years?

10.	My request, allow us to play....	May 9, 2008, 21:20	z0dd
	BLOOD BOWL !!!!!!!

9.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 14:18	Sempai
	The more i read these guys lines of bullshit the more i am sure warhammer online is going to suck balls. Mythic are full of shit. Thx ill stick with WoW.

8.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 13:56	JeffD
	yea unless its some absurd grind fest.. theres no 5 years of content in it.

7.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 12:55	Efflixi
	I'd be willing to bet that World of Warcraft had 3-4 years of content planned. I remember shortly after the game was released, someone made a movie after discovering all the unaccessible continents and instances (for example, they had video of Blackwing Lair, 6 months before it was actually in-game). This was 3 years ago mind you, and some of that content is STILL not available in the real game!

6.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 12:11	Fion
	With only 40 levels the end game PvP best be absolutely SPECTACULAR. Unfortunately right now they won't let us see half of it, and the half we do have in beta, is an unbalanced, slow, instanced, bore-fest. Though yea, they could count as having 5 years of content out of the box. That is, if you count the end game PvP as 4.8 years of it. :p This message was edited at May 9, 12:12.

5.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 12:07	Grounded
	What a pile of lies You know people will level cap in about 3 weeks and start bitching. Whatever

4.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 11:58	Soylent Bob
	That is simply a flat out fucking lie. There is no way in hell those guys have 5 years of content generated.

3.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 10:57	InBlack
	Seriously this game would have been great if only they kept the R rating!




	I have a nifty blue line!

2.	Re: No subject	May 9, 2008, 10:37	The Half Elf
	I wonder how much longevity Ultima Online 2, or Ultima Origins had in them?

1.	No subject	May 9, 2008, 10:15	InBlack
	In other words Grind, Grind, Grind, Grind......times 5 years!




	I have a nifty blue line!

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