Really, Really Quickly

I’ve just logged off from the Warhammer Online Preview weekend.

It’s 4:30pm Monday my time, which translates into something like 3 to 4 am US time I think, and the servers are still up. I finished off with my rank 7 Chosen (rank is the same as level) doing a few RvR Scenarios. Lot’s of fun, but I’m pretty tired now and I’ve seen all I need to see for a preview.

The PW started around 10pm on Friday evening my time, and I spent the first night to 3am playing. It’s been pretty much non stop WAR all weekend except for Saturday night when I attended some friends birthday parties (way too much chocolate.) Even then I got back into it when I returned home …

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Mythic Patcher Is UP

It’s 2am here, so I’ll be quick.

I just retried running up the patcher for Warhammer Online, and I no longer get a quick flash and sent back to the log in dialog.

It took quite a while to bring up the EULA/TOS. I suspect the servers are quite busy with folks logging in. The patch however, once it started, was astoundingly fast. I was expecting a pretty large patch, but it was only a few meg. It all downloaded and updated in less than a minute.

As I said, it’s 2am Friday morning here. That means it’s early Thursday afternoon in the US. That means less than 24 hours to the start of the Preview Weekend.

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More Warhammer Online Than You Can Shake A Stick At

I know. It might seem a bit like Stropp’s World is becoming a Warhammer Online blog, but that’s not the case at all. It’s just that I’m getting a little excited.

Now that the NDA has been lifted, there’s a whole bunch of new info and opinion about WAR appearing in a frenzied Wargasm of posting. The days of frustrated blogger having to hold their tongues are over.

We already know a lot of the features that have been promised for WAR. Now we get to find out the intimate details of Public Quests, The Tome of Knowledge, and the RvR Combat everyone has been pining for. And what I’m already reading is part of the reason for the excitement I’ve been feeling.

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Warhammer Preview Weekend - I’m In!

Earlier this afternoon, after reading a comment on the Casualties forum by HarbingerZero, I checked my Warhammer account and saw one little line added to the end of  enabled items.

WAR Preview

Woo hoo!

I really didn’t expect to get into this. I mentioned in a previous post that I went to bed before Mythic had enabled the Open Beta and Head Start codes (around 2am) and didn’t enter the codes until about 11am the next morning. I fully expected that the 50,000 available SE slots would have been filled. Seems that wasn’t the case.

Ironically, I had seen only a few minutes before a post on Tobold’s blog where he was talking about the

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Warhammer Online Open Beta Starts on the 7th September

Well, it’s good news and bad news.

I was kinda hoping the open beta would start a bit earlier than the 7th of September. That just leaves 11 days before the release of the 18th, and since there is a preorder head-start of two or three days (possibly) that will be probably be reduced to 7 or 8 days of open beta goodness.

On the other hand, it’s probably a sensible move by Mythic. Open betas can be brutal on a games good PR. You always get a bunch of players who get in and rip the game to shreds. There’s always haters. Limiting the amount of time before release, limits the amount of time they get to spread negativity.

Not that

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Warhammer Online Open Beta Center Ready For Business

The downside of living in such a great country like Australia (apart from the politicians and OFLC, but you get their types everywhere!) is that it seems everything happens when you are asleep.

So it happens with the Warhammer Online preorder codes. Last night while I was dreaming of cutting my way through vast swathes of enemies while wearing my exceedingly cool hat, and for some bizarre reason waking up with the theme to American Dad going through my head, Mythic activated their account center. Thus enabling it to finally accept the open beta access and live game head start codes.

Needless to say, that was the first thing I checked when I sat down at my PC this morning.

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Warhammer Online - Just in it for the Hat.

A few of the guys over at Casualties of WAR have been getting their creative on and making up some brilliant recruitment posters for the guild.

Since I find myself leaning towards the Witch Hunter class for my first character, I promise you there will be others, I thought you might like to see our Witch Hunter recruitment poster. Over the next few weeks, I’ll put up some more of our recruitment posters as they come along — we have some real talent in the guild.

Speaking of that, the other day we passed one hundred applicants and since then there have been quite a few others.

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It’s Getting Hot and Steamy in Age of Conan

Remember that Seinfeld episode where George gets fired for having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk at work?

I came across this on Lum’s blog, Broken Toys. He links to an escapist article about how a Funcom employee, a GM for Age of Conan was recently fired for having cybersex with a player.

I imagine the conversation in the boss’s office afterwards went something like this. (With apologies to Seinfeld.)

Boss: I’m going to get right to the point. It has come to my attention that you and a player have engaged in

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