Here is the one major caveat with Warhammer Online.
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

If you don’t like to fight against other players, it is probably not the game for you.

That’s because there are two major facets to a good online game.

First, you need a vast amount of content constructed from scratch: varied geographies to explore and hundreds if not thousands of challenging quests to attempt, characters to meet, virtual foes to defeat and bits of shiny loot to accumulate. This is where World of Warcraft excels. The best part of WOW is banding together with friends to battle big computer-controlled bad guys in carefully scripted encounters. Gamers call this player-versus-environment content, or PvE.

But second, you also need systems that enable players to interact with one another to create emergent entertainment and story lines among themselves. This aspect is more like sports, where the basic rules are defined but the narrative is created through the interplay of participants rather than defined in advance. This is where a game like Eve Online excels. The best part of Eve is banding together with friends to battle other real people. The broad plot in a game like Eve is a product of conflict and cooperation among players, rather than the product of a team of professional writers. Gamers call this player-versus-player content, or PvP.