Warhammer Online Offers Returning Players the Emperor's Welcome

Mythic Entertainment, the creator of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, is announcing a new initiative designed to bring back old players of the MMO who have left the game in order to pursue greener online pastures. The developer is saying that those who are interested in re-activating their accounts will get a host of new stuff and rewards grouped under the name of the Emperor's Welcome.

The stuff players get is pretty varied. There's an experience reward for the period on which they did not log in to play but also a quest chain that has been created especially for them, complete with ten days of free gameplay. And logging into Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning after a long time will allow them to discover quite a different game. There are new classes, like the Back Guard, the Knight of the Blazing Sun, the Orc Choppa and the Dwarf Slayer. There are also more live events and a revamped Domination system, alongside new Public Quests, balanced for different skill levels and for varied groups of players.

Mythic is really trying, with a fresh rolling live expansion, begun in the Call to arms event, with the ten-day free trial period and a new buddy system, to get some fresh blood in Warhammer Online, while also bringing back veteran players. Recently, the company has announced that it has shut down quite a few servers for the MMO, in order to make sure that the remaining ones have enough population to support the Realm versus Realm battles that make up some of the core of the game.

When it was initially released in late 2008 Warhammer Online, which is supported by Electronic Arts, was hailed as the most promising competitor yet to Blizzard's World of Warcraft. Unfortunately, the launch of the second expansion for that MMO, Wrath of Lich King, has taken some of the wind out of WAR's sales and now the game is trying to find new players.