Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Developer(s)	Mythic Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Designer(s)	Mark Jacobs Paul Barnett Jeff Hickman
Series	Warhammer Fantasy
Engine	Gamebryo
Platform(s)	Windows Mac OS X
Release	18 September 2008 (Windows) 28 October 2009 (Mac OS X)
Genre(s)	Massively multiplayer online role-playing
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (officially abbreviated as WAR^[1]) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting, developed by Mythic Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts in 2008. The game revolved around the continual worldwide conflict that the Warhammer Fantasy setting is known for, and the game is geared toward ongoing, constant war laced with dark humour. Age of Reckoning ended up selling over a million copies and peaking at 800,000 subscribers, but dropped to 300,000 subscribers several months later. The game received generally positive reviews from critics but shut down in 2013. Since at least 2014,^[2] an active private server called Return of Reckoning has been run by fans,^[3] and it remains active as of November 2024.^[4]