Warhammer Online's Cut Content Will be Added for Free Later

244w ago - Fans of massively multiplayer games who were looking forward to Warhammer Online were understandably shaken this summer when it was announced that some major features were being pulled from the game.

However, those worried fans can now take heart. Speaking to 1UP earlier today about this week's public launch of their new game, Mythic Entertainment general manager Mark Jacobs assured us that the cut content that does find its way back into Warhammer Online will be reintroduced free of charge -- not as part of a paid expansion.

"Are we going to put [the pulled content] in a paid expansion? No," Jacobs explained. "What I've told the users point blank is that we want to give it to you as part of subscription content. We don't have a schedule penciled in for when that will be coming, but we're going to release it without any additional charge to players."

The cuts, announced in July to help keep the game on track for a fall release as well as sharpen up the content that is in the shipping version, included four of the six planned capital cities and four classes. Jacobs told us that though four cities were pulled from the game for the time being, they took the content that had been spread out in those cities and poured it back into the remaining two capitals. "We didn't cut one-third the content; we just cut the cities...but we tried to make up for it by what we did with Altdorf and the Inevitable City [the remaining capital cities]."

Jacobs had previously said that the team "just couldn't get [the classes] great," meaning that if they make it back into the game at some point, it will probably be in a more polished and refined form. So despite some anger and nervousness when the announcement first hit, it seems these cuts may work out for the best in the end.