Saturday, January 9, 2010

My Warhammer On-line Top 5 Desired Features

I've been playing Warhammer Online since beta and continue to play (Jan 2010). I was thinking of things I would like to see in the game over the coming months and hope that we continue to see updates even though Mythic has experience recent cutbacks. Below is a list of the top 5 features I think and hope would increase the potential of the game (for me anyway).






5. Tier 4, Pre-Rank 40 Scenarios

Once you hit Rank 32 (of 40) in Warhammer Online you are forced into Tier 4, whilst this is great to see how the end game plays out, it's quite hard to continue with scenarios until you increase your Rank and get better gears. This is because you are included in the 32-40 Ranks and many of the Rank 40 players have extremely good gear and it can leave you feeling really useless. I think there should be a 32-38 range scenario queue however I guess the main issue with that is population and making sure enough people are around to make the scenarios pop.

4. Lifetime Subscriber Option

Even though I want to try other MMO's (Star Trek Online), I would love to retain my WAR fix by paying a one of fee and then being able to come back at any point. I think the only options at the moment are continue to pay the subs or use an unlimited trial account.

3.New EU WAR Website

The EU WAR website (created by GOA, the EU publisher of WAR) has always bugged me, it's Flash based, looks like it's from the 90's and is nothing near the standard of the WAR US site. I understand it needs to be multilingual but for the love of god copy the US site and add the development to that!

2.Cross Server Scenario Queues

I guess there aren't that many WAR servers anymore but I think cross server queues for scenarios would always mean that there are scenarios popping(or more anyway) and more varied teams.

1. Third Faction

I've left the easy one until last... I don't really understand why 3 factions wasn't built in from day one. DAoC had it, Planetside had it and I think it balances the factions a lot better than two. For example, one side has more people and is kicking the other factions butt, the 3rd faction can either form a limited alliance and fight back, or start taking objectives from the larger faction and therefore bringing the fight on two fronts. This is by no means easy but would really make me happy if this came in an expansion later this year (we'll see...).

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