Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will shut down for good at the end of the year.
Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of Mythic’s Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning MMO, but there’s no celebrating being done. Instead, the team announced that the game will be closed down in three months, when Mythic’s Warhammer license expires.
“We here at Mythic have built an amazing relationship working with Games Workshop creating and running Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning over the last 8 years,” Mythic announced today. “Unfortunately, as with all licensing deals they do eventually come to end and on December 18th, 2013 we will no longer be operating Warhammer Online.”
“Games Workshop has cultivated a world class IP. We were lucky enough to play in their universe for nearly a decade, with five great long years live,” Producer Carrie Gouskos wrote in a separate “notice of shutdown” farewell message. “However, like all things – our contract has come to an end. Both Games Workshop and Mythic agreed to part ways, despite how hard it is emotionally on us to let the game go. It has been a tremendous honor to work with Games Workshop and even though we may be parting ways, our relationship with them remains strong.”
I have no idea how popular Warhammer Online is (or isn’t) but the announcement of the coming closure is the first news to be posted on the Warhammer website since the June 17 announcement that six-month time codes and automatic renewals were being eliminated. The timing of that news now seems rather suspect, coming as it did exactly six months before the shutdown date, but Mythic said at the time that the change was due to “very low” levels of interest.
Source: Warhammer Online
