Mythic Entertainment loses on december 18, the license to Warhammer Online, and from that moment, the studio the servers of the game to close. Until that time, is Warhammer Online free to play, though that only applies for anyone who has ever created an account.
In a short statement on the website of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning allows Mythic Entertainment to know that the mmog to 18 december free playable is. This is one limitation; the offer is only valid to players who have ever created an account. The account must, moreover, such as Mythic calls it, ‘in good standing’. It is no longer possible to create new accounts. The studio will also be new npcs to the game, adding that players should help in the training of their character. In addition, the studio ingame events to the end of the game to celebrate.
Mythic made in mid-september announced that the license that the studio has in to Games Workshop on 18 december ends, so that from that time no Warhammer game should operate. Therefore, on december 18, the servers of the mmog offline. Mythic has, in contrast to the developers of many other mmog’s, to the end adhered to a system of teachers do English, too.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning was released on september 18, 2008, and Electronic Arts, the publisher of the game and owner of Mythic Entertainment, made shortly afterwards known that there are 1.2 million copies of the game were sold. A month later, reported to the publisher that the mmog 750,000 users had. At the end of the year, that number had already dropped to 300,000 players. In early 2009, the publisher, therefore, a part of the servers on which the game is hosted. The number of servers has since then been further reduced. There are now three servers; one in the USA, one in Germany and one for the rest of Europe.
Age of Reckoning is not the only mmog that plays in the Warhammer universe. Behaviour Interactive is working on Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade, at the end of 2015 should come on the market. Publisher THQ worked for a long time mmog Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium. By the bankruptcy of the issuer was the development of the mmog, however, still lie.
