14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer Mythic announces that its MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will be taken offline on December 18 of this year.
The reason is that the licensing deal that the company has with Games Workshop, the creator of the universe, is expiring.
The game was launched in September 2008 and managed to initially draw a big audience, which it failed to keep engaged in the long term.
The Warhammer Online shutdown announcement states, “as with all licensing deals they do eventually come to end and on December 18th, 2013 we will no longer be operating Warhammer Online. As such we will no longer be selling three-month game time codes or have the ability to auto renew your accounts for three months as of September 18th, 2013.”
The team thanks all gamers who have played Age of Reckoning in the past five years.
A Warhammer fantasy strategy title is in development at The Creative Assembly.