Originally Posted by Garthilk
Rarely has this site ever posted anything by way of news that wasn't first passed by Mythic and fact checked. We've always appreciated the hard work of the developers and have always worked to get the facts straight before we bring it to the community. However, today's news item was met with both the suggestion I talk with someone higher up the food chain and a, "no comment". Despite the official company line, when unofficial people in and out of Mythic, as well as inside EA, all tell you the same thing, well, I'm going to listen and I think you should too.
Contrary to Marks insistence that there will never be official forums, last week I received word that plans are on for the building and launching of official public forums early in the new year. There are plans for three separate official forums, one for the USA, one across the pond at our GOA friends and also one for the good folks in Russia where WAR will be released in early 2009. It should be no surprise that this is going to be a huge undertaking and the community teams are staffing up to handle the new responsibilities.
Ultimately this is going to be a fantastic thing for Warhammer Alliance and the folks at this site. For more than three years this site has been the premiere community provider for the Warhammer Online community. In that time we've grown and shifted focus to handling the massive growth that the forums have been experiencing. In that growth however we have not been able to deliver the quality content and information that I feel this community deserves.
Official forums are going to definitely help lighten the load of the volunteers at this site and allow us to focus on getting the community better information, better guides, better tools and better insight. It's going to allow us to spend less time banning idiots and more time creating readable and interesting content. Most importantly, it's going to allow me more time to level my alt characters to 40.
Now while this bit of news is officially relegated to the land of rumor I would suggest that folks not be shocked or surprised when this is officially announced late this month or early next year.
Now with that bit of news out of the way, let me repeat what I said five months ago. Warhammer Alliance is not going anywhere. I and the staff of volunteers are committed to providing a quality community experience to everyone who visits Warhammer Alliance or our addon site at Curse.com, and the fantastic database at Wardb.com. We're committed to bringing great tools, great forums and great content. The prospect of official forums are going to allow us to focus on enhancing those things and frankly, I think it's going to bring about some fantastic changes for the site.
For those of you on the fence about WAR, I suggest you stick around. There are even more changes afoot at Mythic and we're going to continue to bring you the latest news, tools and information.
