Warhammer Online beta reaches 500,000
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

Electronic Arts announced Thursday that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) has passed 500,000 beta participants in North American and Europe.

Beta testing resumes next week with a special sneak peek at the new Dark Elf lands and careers portions of the game, EA said in a statement. Developers hope to produce a successful online RPG with few bugs and finely tuned with a beta player pool half a million strong.The anticipated massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from EA Mythic, is due out n mid-2008.“It’s fantastic that over half a million players want to help us with the development of WAR,” said Mark Jacobs, vice president and general manager of EA Mythic. “Their feedback will help us take WAR to the next level as we focus on refining gameplay, adding polish, and most importantly, making sure the game is extremely fun. We can’t wait to let them all into the living, breathing Warhammer universe that we’re creating.”