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Warhammer Online Closed Down Beta

Written by Mark C. Barlet

Published on 09 October 2007

In a post on the Warhammer Online Beta Forums they they were closing down the Beta servers on October 10th, and that users should not expect them back online until â€œEarly Decemberâ€. The game has already been delayed once, pushing it back until sometime in the early part of 2008. Now there is a lot of speculate on this, I think that TenTonHammer.com says it best.

Warhammer Online fans....take a deep, deep breath. To me, this doesn't sound like anything that you need to concern yourselves with. In fact, I'd suggest the opposite and this may be just the little "break" that WAR needs to become a truly amazing game. That said, Jeff Hickman finished off his post to the beta community stating that the Realm versus Realm experience has been a totally fantastic experience and it'll only improve over this short break.

For those of you that were already in the beta, I'm sorry you couldn't continue to play the game that a whole host of people are looking forward to. The rest of us can now sit back and relax until early December, when it sounds like the next phase of the beta will roll out. Until then, let's give them EA Mythic team a round of applause for having the guts to do what they feel is necessary to create a fantastic game.

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0 #2 Actual Beta Tester — Tester 2007-10-17 03:10

I was actually in the closed beta for warhammer online, now the game is looking good graphics wise, but the combat system needs a complete overhaul, currently its a turn based system rather than a real time cooldown based system like world of warcraft, so the action wasnt smooth, it was jerky and sporadic, when you hit that key for the big sword slam your character didnt do the big sword slam, you had to wait for his turn, creating a disconnect between player controls and the action on screen, and if you throw in multiple monsters, you wait longer, definitely needs an overhaul, wouldnt buy now