Warhammer Online players returning to World of Warcraft?

Posted Oct 16th 2008 9:30AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Interviews, MMO, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, World of Warcraft

Electronic Arts sent out a press release last week boasting that 750,000 registered players have already signed onto Mythic's fantasy MMO Warhammer Online. But are some of those players heading back to their first stomping grounds at Blizzard's World of Warcraft? Blizzard COO Paul Sams says that is indeed the case.

In a chat with Gamesindustry.biz, Sams says that while World of Warcraft always gets a reduction of players when a new MMO is launched, he added, "The good news is that we've seen a significant number of people, well over half, that cited Warhammer as their reason for leaving - they've already returned." While Sams praised both the game and Mythic Entertainment, he added, "But I think without EA they would have struggled as well, because EA fortunately for them has a lot of money and so they were able to put forward a lot of marketing dollars and were able to support the huge infrastructure that they require for these kinds of games."

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Lol, WoW killed War with only release of new talent trees and few epic items. Why people just don't learn from other's failures but just repeat them every time again and again.Posted at 9:01AM on Nov 2nd 2008 by Wojski