Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning : nda

WAR NDA Officially Lifted

Zyuu — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:08:57 GMT

Official announcement by Mark Jacbos regarding the Warhammer Online NDA being officially lifted can be seen below. Go nuts and share everything you know about the game with us here at Curse, your friends and anyone else. You can also join great and interesting discussions about WAR over at Warhammer Alliance.

Additionally, Warhammer Online addons are now welcome on Curse! Also, WARDB is also live, not to mention The WAR Wiki. More information about said sites will be posted in seperate news "soon".

Folks,

As of now, the Non Disclosure portions of our Beta Testing Agreement is now officially lifted. From this point on players may now freely talk about their experiences in the game as well as post screenshots, videos, etc. We will be sending an email out to all our current players with full details about the lift over the next 24 hours. Players with access to our forums can also see the letter there. Players may not talk about nor reprint posts from our forums and our Test Servers (currently Deathsword) are still fully covered by the confidentiality portions of our Beta Testing Agreement. So, other than that, free feel to talk about and share your experiences in WAR.

My thanks go out to everyone who has beta tested and continues to beta test WAR. It has been with your help and feedback that WAR is where it is today. We really appreciate your effort.

WAR is almost upon us!

Mark Jacobs

VP, GM Mythic Entertainment

NDA Lift Expected Tomorrow

Kody — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:37:04 GMT

Thanks to the Warhammer Alliance Dev Tracker, we've found out that the NDA for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning may drop tomorrow! Mark Jacobs paid a visit to Warhammer Alliance to provide some updates about upcoming stuff, and spilled the beans on the coming NDA lift!

4) As to the NDA, we expect to lift it tomorrow morning. I was hoping it was going to be today but I wanted to wait till I got the beta reports from the weekend and we just didn't have enough time to get everything coordinated with our partners in order for the press release to go out today. This is not the fault of GOA at all, we just had a lot of data to go through and by the time we did that, it would have been too late to put out the release today. As to the three issues that were holding up the release, I'll be discussing them tomorrow. While I wish that we could have lifted the NDA a couple of weeks ago, I'll explain why tomorrow. Given how many MMOs/games don't lift the NDA until launch (or just before or in some cases, never), our lifting it more than 4 weeks (only slightly but it's still 4+ weeks out), is more than sufficient for all the information about the game to hit the Internet.

You can check out Marks original post or join in on the NDA lift discussion by heading over to the Warhammer Alliance forums.

What does this mean for Warhammer Alliance and the Curse Network as a whole? Well, here's a quick preview from Garthilk:

Guides Section - A place to write and submit guides.
Reviews & Impressions - A place to tell us about your WAR experiences.
Postcards From the Front - A place to upload screenshots, or share links to videos.
WARDB.com - A massive database of game information.
A WAR Wiki - A Warhammer Alliance WAR Wiki.

We will also, of course, fully support any interface modifications here on Curse.com as well as on our project management website, CurseForge.

You can already begin discussing WARDB by heading over to the special forum section on Warhammer Alliance, so be sure to get your suggestions in for the database in advance, and keep an eye out for its beta launch when the NDA is lifted!

Thinking of breaking an NDA? You may not want to.

Kody — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:55:10 GMT

So it appears people have actually been foolish enough to break the NDA of Warhammer Online. Apparently they felt safe doing it wherever it was that they chose to. Sucks for them, because it wasn't safe at all. A number of Beta Testers lost their Warhammer Online accounts recently due to breaking the NDA and talking about things they shouldn't have.

Richard Duffek wrote:

Yesterday we removed several more people from the Beta for NDA violations. I've said it before and I'll say it again, however secure you THINK the location you're spilling your guts about Beta is, trust me, it isn't. There's always someone there who will turn you in for the slightest chance of getting into beta. And you know, from our point of view, that's a great thing. Our numbers stay the same, one out, one in.

So if you get into the Beta, please keep in mind, it's not only us that is out there scouring the web for NDA violations, it's everyone else who isn't in as well.

This is a good example of why you should abide by NDAs. Not just the game company is looking out for their interests - other players are as well - so even if you think you're in the clear to spread info - you probably aren't.