Warhammer Online starts beta with 200k signed up to play
EA Mythic wants to show they're off to a good start with Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning by letting everyone know that 200,000 players are currently signed up to play their closed beta. The beta started on May 30 and the 200,000 mark was reached ten days after launch. What's the average amount of time that normally takes? Who knows, but they put it in the release so it must be an interesting fact. The Halo beta ended up having 820,000 players (that's actual players, not "signed up"), but that's an apples to oranges situation, and yet, also an interesting fact. There are still spots open for the beta and EA Mythic is taking applications at the WAR site.
WAR was recently delayed from this year until sometime in 2008. EA Mythic is looking to have this dog ready for the show by that point. We're sure to get the first tidbits of how the game is sometime soon and we're definitely going to get our first real taste for the game when EA shows it off at E3.
[Via Press Release]
Update: Oops, EA Mythic has 200k players signed up for the beta, they don't give an actual number of people who are playing.
