Warhammer Online Delayed: Our Interview with Mark Jacobs

Warhammer Online has been delayed from Q2 of this year until the fall. We had a chance to interview EA Mythic General Manager Mark Jacobs about the delay, the reasons for it and what that means for the future of WAR.

"If we had tried to force the game out in the 2nd Quarter, as we had originally planned to release it," said Jacobs. "We could have but it would have meant pretty much no time for polishing the game. The decision was to continue to iterate and reserve polish time."

The main area that requires further attention, according to Jacobs, is class balance. He explained how the classes of Warhammer Online do not necessarily fall into specific boxes as they do in many MMOs. Most classes are multi-faceted hybrids of several traditional RPG classes and this means they need to rethink some of the conventions of MMO balance. "If you don't release it right from the beginning with classes at least pretty much balanced, where they're all fun, you're not going to be in good shape in an [Realm vs. Realm] game."

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Makes no diff to me. I'am in aoC Beta.. so I have something to screw around with until I get to try out this one.

But doesn't the World of Warcraft expansion come out in fall too?

timberwolve:
Makes no diff to me. I'am in aoC Beta.. so I have something to screw around with until I get to try out this one.

But doesn't the World of Warcraft expansion come out in fall too?

He said so in the article.

Hey Funcom...you listening. DELAY. Can be a good thing.