Awww, this is rather sad. Once upon a time, Mythic created classic MMO Dark Age of Camelot, one of the few real alternatives to EverQuest back in its heyday, and classic MUD Dragon's Gate before that. Later it also warred out the warrisomely war-packed Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, which recently went bye-bye itself. Since then, Mythic's been in a strange spot, unable to find…
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
7 years ago
Oh ho, the plot thickens! Or rather, it congeals from thin air, because I suppose there wasn't much of a plot before this. EA yanked the cord on Warhammer Online's servers (and then presumably bit it in half and bathed in its blood), and that was that. The end. Roll credits. But now a former Mythic developer who's currently working on Camelot Unchained has revealed…
Nathan reported back in September on coming demise of Warhammer Online. Now it's happened. Due to the end of EA's licensing agreement with Games Workshop, as of Wedneday 18th Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has put the hammer down for good.
Warhammer Online, we hardly knew ye. OK actually that's not true at all. But still, it is a bit weird when you realize that Mythic's fantastical dig through Games Workshop's toy meticulously crafted figure chest launched in 2008. Five years is hardly a mail-clad, blood-drenched spring chicken, but it is rather young by MMO standards. And yet, here we are. Mythic's deal with Games Workshop has…