Mythic have announced that, as of the end of the year, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will be shut down.

We here at Mythic have built an amazing relationship working with Games Workshop creating and running Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning over the last 8 years. Unfortunately, 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 3 month game time codes or have the ability to auto renew your accounts for 3 months as of September 18th, 2013. If you would like to read some additional thoughts from one of WAR’s Producer please check out http://www.warhammeronline.com/. From all of us here at Mythic we thank you again for your dedication and support over the last five years.

Producer Carrie Gouskos offered her thoughts on the shutdown in a lengthy, heartfelt reflection, and notes both the issues that the game faced and some of the innovations it brought into the MMORPG scene.

This news probably shouldn’t come as a surprise; WAR (as the game was known) has been struggling for a while, and its development team was cut to almost nothing some time ago. Indeed, the game’s website hadn’t seen an update for a few months, prior to this shutdown announcement.

I don’t know if Deckard is around, but I imagine he may have more to say about this. Personally, I never really followed the game despite my adolescent interest in Warhammer itself.

And no, I imagine this will have any impact on Ultima Forever.