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Greetings!

EU Players are now able to log into the Official WAR Forums (http://www.warhammeronline.com/forums/)! To log into the forums, simply click on the Login button in the top left corner. Once there, you will be directed to select one of your character names to display as your identity. After selecting a character you will be asked to create a screen name and provide a valid email address. That’s all there is too it!

All European servers will find their server specific forums are available to them on the official forums. We do ask that outside of your server specific forums that you please only post in English. This will assist us in providing the best possible experience for all players and in gathering feedback.

PLEASE NOTE: Realm WAR Character data may take up to 48 hours to fully migrate to the BioWare Mythic site.

We are also pleased to announce that all EU Trial Users have been given a two week unlimited pass to experience all of WAR! Starting yesterday all accounts will be converted to full access and will be reverted back to trial on 23 July 2010, unless they have subscribed.

We’re excited to welcome our European community and hope that you’re More >

Warhammer Online producer, Carrie Gouskos, has penned the latest letter outlining the updates coming down the pipe in the near future. At the same time, Gouskos acknowledges players' need to hear more about long term plans for the game.

Through these communications I’ve emphasized how we listen to the community and take your feedback seriously while planning the future of WAR. For the most part, the “P-Letter” (as I like to call it) is intended to be a short term look at the next version or two,  giving you a look forward at the months to come. However, it’s very clear that there is a lot of desire to hear about long term planning. We hear these requests loud and clear, and it is our desire to give you a better sense of WAR’s long term plan by the end of summer. Our detractors like to make fun of us for “being really excited” and “itching to tell you about” some “really cool things” (yes, we read the snarky posts), and in this case we want to shout it from the rooftops…but not just yet.

Gouskos takes a look at the latest v1.3.6 including RVR, incentivizing city armors and appearance slots.

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Greetings!

As part of the transition of services of WAR from GOA to Bioware Mythic we will be bringing the Mythic Account Center offline this evening, 6/30/2010, at 11:00 PM EDT/0500 CET for maintenance. During this time all account center related services will be unavailable including billing and character transfers. At this time we anticipate that the Account Center will be back online no later than 11:00 AM EDT/1700 CET, 7/1/2010. As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.

BioWare Mythic is pleased to announce that we will assume operational responsibility for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning European players beginning 7 July 2010.

On Tuesday, 29 June 2010 Mythic will be taking a data stamp of all European account, character and guild information from GOA, for both present and past players. Once this has occurred, all player and guild progression will not be saved for a period of a few days. Please note: While we do not anticipate any issues, please be aware that at any point during this transitional period that we may need to restore character and guild data from the 29 June 2010 data stamp.

When the process has completed, the European Mythic servers will be brought online and will be continually monitored during this transitional period. All game play during this period will be free for existing subscribers and current European subscribers will receive two weeks of free game play beginning 7th July.

For more information, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions which can be found in English, French and German.

See you on the battlefields!

Continuing the tumultuous series of events that have plagued Mythic since the launch of Warhammer Online in 2008, it appears that EA Mythic has been hit with a new round of layoffs this morning. Josh Drescher, a key player in the development of WAR and well known to fans, is no longer employed with EA Mythic as of 11AM this morning according to a tweet posted on his personal Twitter account.

The news left many of his followers on Twitter wondering if he had been fired, but a more recent post confirms that this was indeed another round of layoffs:

FYI: I can't get into details (and, in fact, don't HAVE many more details), but it was a layoff. I wasn't fired and I still love Mythic. 22 minutes ago via web

We'll have more information as this story develops. Josh previously served as a senior designer at Mythic.