Comments on: Because I'm Leet Like Karl Franz

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:30:58 +0000

Since I had no friends still subscribed, it just replaced that line with “Your allies are still in the battle!” Apparently my character is still part of some amoeba guild I joined for a lark, too. Cool little spam bot, really.

By: Bonedead

Bonedead — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:07:58 +0000

12 seems to be the magic number with WAR. 1-11 Scenarios could be a game of it’s own (and it wouldn’t be bad).

By: Drakks

Drakks — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:26:50 +0000

Mine comeback e-mail was far less spectacular:

“Karl Franz was sort of hoping you’d return as a loyal soldier in the armies of Order, but not for your strength as you’re not actually very good at this game! We just wanted your subscription fee, honestly. It’s the difference between someone making or not making a car payment this month. Help a brother out?”

By: WAR really wants you to come up and see it sometime « Welcome to Spinksville!

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:15:25 +0000

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By: Alarik

Alarik — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:53:55 +0000

“But hey, I’ll still be Order, the pariah of Warhammer. And yeah, knowing that really makes that e-mail sound as though the King is desperate. Like… er… Kaiser Wilhelm? Franz Joseph? Nicholas II? All those fine monarchs whose royal lines are still… er… never mind.”

Order is winning most servers since the last patch.

The game is definitely more stable than it was at launch, but the endgame still seems flawed. Pretty much every update they pull more ideas from DAoC, which is mostly a good thing in my opinion, since most people went into WAR expecting DAoC 2 anyway.

By: Derella

Derella — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:18:06 +0000

I took advantage of the offer. I don’t know if the servers are just overly busy because of lots of people returning, but I found the game laggy(ie: 3-7 second delays after clicking NPCs). I managed to do the first welcome back quest, but got booted back to the character select screen while doing the second one. Then I quit.

By: Stupid

Stupid — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:17:29 +0000

I’m frightened by the amount of data-mining used to craft those letters. They pulled the ranks of the canceled character and polled the friends lists? That couldn’t have been database intensive at all!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:37:16 +0000

I’ve slammed his Barnetness, MJ and Mythic a lot as of late. But I have to admit this was the coolest come back to the game type of email I have ever received.

Of course the caveat is if they had put this much thought and creativity into the game I still might be there, thus never needing the letter.

Ba dun dun

By: Vetarnias

Vetarnias — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:10:55 +0000

And sure enough…

Though, to be honest, I’m tempted to take advantage of it, just to see if their game is indeed more stable than it was.

But hey, I’ll still be Order, the pariah of Warhammer. And yeah, knowing that really makes that e-mail sound as though the King is desperate. Like… er… Kaiser Wilhelm? Franz Joseph? Nicholas II? All those fine monarchs whose royal lines are still… er… never mind.

By: Amusing « World of Discourse

Amusing « World of Discourse — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:10:40 +0000

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