WAR : Gloom, despair and agony?

[Maeve]

Okay, so I suppose nobody really ever watched Hee Haw, my grandparents Saturday night favorite TV show.

Lots of upheaval over at Mythic. Carrie Guskos is no longer the producer in order for her to "focus on other things at Mythic". Andy Belford has left for greener pastures and moving out West. Today, they announced free server transfers and will in 3 weeks leave only 2 North American servers, Gorfang and Badlands.

North American Servers:

For players on the North America Servers, we are opening up the following free transfer options:

Iron Rock -> Gorfang
Volkmar -> Gorfang

To facilitate this we will be enabling the multi-realm ability for Gorfang. This allows accounts to have both Order and Destruction characters on the server and increases the character limit to 20. There will be an 8 hour lockout when switching realms on the server.

This option will be available as of 02/09/11.

At that time will we also mark ‘Iron Rock’ and ‘Volkmar’ as Legacy servers to prevent new accounts from registering on those servers.
We are doing the above in an effort to encourage players to move to Gorfang. After a period of 3 weeks, we will switch Iron Rock and Volkmar to retired. At that point, players will need to transfer their characters to Gorfang (via a free transfer) or another server (via a paid transfer) to access them. The game will prompt you to do this when you attempt to choose those servers from the list.
Along with the above changes, we will make the following adjustments to Badlands:

* Badlands will once again be an option for Trial players.
* Badlands will now be a viable destination server for paid server transfers.
* Badlands will now be removed from the source server list for paid server transfers.

And now, for your viewing pleasure:

[Dachartach]

Hey, I used to watch Hee Haw! Of course, "Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me" is a major component of all good, and most bad, country music. I never did play Warhammer, but I agree that this is not a good thing, most likely.





the stars at night
are big and bright

[Whiskey]

I've had a tumultuous and rocky affair with Warhammer. It makes me a little blue to see it spiralling the drain like this. For all it's troubles I had some great times playing to 80. *toast*

[Maeve]

I love(d) WAR, despite all its problems. I wanted it to make a comeback but the RvR packs fell short, even with some great changes. While I'm not predicting this is the end, it isn't looking good, that's for sure. Down to 2 NA servers from how many at launch? Ouch. It makes me sad to see it dwindle so.

[Rer]

Volkmar! My original home, we had some good times we did. You outlasted damn near um all buddy, R.I.P.

Not to mention Iron Rock, the iconic RvR server!

[Big Hoss]

The funny thing is that the DAOC servers probably have more active players than WAR. Guess they should have made DAOC 2 and saved all those millions. Andy yes Hee Haw was a staple at our house as well

[Whiskey]

Gloom, Despair, and Agony is also a good summary of all the official Warhammer Forums threads. I've been thinking about the game a lot lately and swung by the forums. Ouch!

I loved Warhammer most of the time, but I can't imagine ever going back now. =/