Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Interview

[GameBanshee News]

Creative director Paul Barnett talked with videogamer247 about Warhammer Online, and reveals that the recent cut content is nothing compared to what they slashed down from the start.

“Endless optimism through daily disappointment,” said Barnett when asked what his job entailed. “It’s about getting the concepts and condensing them into soundbites that can then be championed around the company to keep people on-target, on-message.

“It’s about finding clarity when parts of the project can go a little askew. For instance, we did a lot of work on our chat windows, but we did too much work on them and we started losing focus and my job is to bring clarity back to it. Same thing happened with careers. We went down a terrible path where we had too many careers. We have 250-odd at one point and we boiled it right back down to 20.”

Cut content is usually disappointing to hear about, but I'd say that not sticking with 250-odd careers was a good call.

EDIT: a Warhammer Online dev replied to this article from VG247 and claimed it is misquoted.

Folks,

I call BS. This writer has pulled this stuff on us (and other developers before) before. This site misquoted Paul before and they are doing it again. The fact that it gets front page coverage here is disappointing to say the least.

Mark

VG247 replies.

I transcribed it from the recording this morning. That’s what he said. It was me the wrote it, yes. Why on earth why I claim someone had said something when they hadn’t?

[Celos]

Originally Posted by Mark Jacobs

Folks,

As I said on WHA, that site is the same site that misquoted Paul before and gee, they are doing it again. What a shock! From what I've been told, that site is known for that type of nonsense.

Mark

Sounds to me like another inflammatory news post. Having 250 classes in a MMO is downright impossible and fairly idiotic (there is no way a dev team is going to come up with 250 unique classes). I'm betting that they were either talking about the starting stages where they were deciding which classes to put in or maybe the 250 were just name choices.

edit: Even though this edit probably won't be read anymore, I did mean the VG247 news post. Apparently, according to the devs of WAR, VG247 has misquoted them a few times in the past in the hopes of "stirring things up."

[Brother None]

Hmmm, I'll put that and VG247's reply in the newspost for the sake of fairness.

If VG247 is telling the truth, he'll be able to produce an audio recording, if not...boy gaming journalism sucks, doesn't it?

Sounds to me like another inflammatory news post.

Not sure what this is supposed to mean. You mean the VG247 newspost?