Warhammer Online Rumours

[solarbear88]

Waging WAR: Gamescom and Mythic's anti-hype - Massively

OMG if this turns out to be true, the 3rd faction might actually get me to resub. I swore I would never play again, but a 3rd faction would be just too much curiosity.

[brohawk]

or maybe the anti-hype is EA/Bioware letting Mythic go to the wasteland and focus more on TOR

[Snott]

I agree. 3 factions would make it self-balance as theother 2 gang up on the top dog all the time no matter who it is. There have been numerous articles about tis very subject and why it is basically the only way to have a (reasonably) balanced game.

[Getafix]

Aions third NPC faction should have provided that balance - unfortunately it wasn't intelligently coded to aid balance, instead if one faction held most of the abyss, the balaur would usually attack the one fort that the underdogs actually held, resulting in

Balance has to be the single most important aspect of any faction based MMO, unbalanced servers are no fun for either side.

I never played it, but weren't there three factions in DAoC? I wonder why they chose to only have two in Warhammer...

[Mesar]

Yes Getafix, there where 3 factions in DAoC, which is why many ex-DAoC players were baffled about why Mythic went with 2.

[solarbear88]

Warhammer Online's RvR pack announced - Massively

Rumours might be true.

[Varthus]

The three faction warfare of DAoC was amazing. I'm one of the old guys that was stunned when Mythic only released two. I think that was more EA than Mythic honestly. EA aka Killer of Game Studios worldwide! (Glare)

[Flintwick]

I will stand up as one of the baffled masses from old-school DAoC who was miffed at no third faction in Warhammer. Three factions is for sure the way to go in any large scale faction warfare game, due to the balancing nature. Another game which used three factions to great effect was Planetside, another large scale RvR type game, and another which benefited from the balancing nature of three factions.

[Serious]

Skaven.... They could make Ogres, Bretonnians, Vampire Counts, Wood Elves, Lizardmen... and they make Skaven?

But three sides?? Oooooh

[Ange]

Although we only have the broadest strokes of an outline for the pack, it promises to expand the game's core focus of PvP with an increase in the renown ranks to 100.

Epic fail. Wheres the fun in grindin to 100.

As to only having 2 factions, wow, it was a suprise. I wounder where they came up with that idea.