It's never an easy decision to delay a game in development. It's even worse when a game has already suffered through extensive delays. A little less than one year ago, GameSpy spoke with EA Mythic's General Manager Mark Jacob's decision to delay Warhammer Online into 2008. This morning, the monthly Warhammer Online newsletter brought the distressing news that the game had been delayed again, this time from spring to a fall 2008 release. Given the high-profile nature of the game itself and the length of time it's spent in development, this must have been agonizing. GameSpy were able to get Jacobs back into the hot seat to go over the choice to once again push Warhammer Online back.
Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.
I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.
Kevin from Denkiphile: "The first I’d ever heard of Titan was at the height of my World of Warcraft career, which was also the same time that several games, touted as WoW-killers, came onto the market and failed miserably. It made sense to me at the time that the only thing that could kill WoW was Blizzard themselves, but this also eventually changed with the advent of session-based, microtransaction-supported games like League of Legends. Titan was supposed to revolutionize and revitalize the MMO genre, but it certainly was not the first to crash and burn before its first flight. Here are some MMOs whose ambitions flew them too close to the sun."
The closing of multiplayer services can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there just aren’t enough people using a product to justify keeping it running while in others it could be down to complicated legal wrangling, like expiring licensing agreements, or even a desire to bring out a new installment.
One thing is clear though – many of these discontinued games simply don’t deserve to die, to be cut down in their prime leaving players without a viable alternative and waste all that time the audience invested in them. With that in mind, this article will count down the 12 games least deserving of being shut down, the ones that players the world over wished had kept going.
But i "think" this has to do with Porting it for console's.
Since the devs did say they would like to be on console's too, and it is EA and EA's at lol war with Activsion
since they partnered with blizz.
2c
lets face it delays are a bad thing, you want to know a good thing?
a game which is given a realistic release date and made to a high standard for that date.
im not saying that games need to be rushed out.
mmo's are dam hard to develop and warhammer online is doing alot of things no mmo has tried yet, to reflect this you would think the developers would have set themselves a realistic release date for there product.