Warhammer Vault
Warhammer Vault: In the gameplay videos I've seen, the UI clutter factor has been kept to a minimum, with only one hotbar visible. Is it going to stay that way? One thing that does kind of bug me about most MMOs now is that you need multiple hotbars (I have 6 open in EQ2..) for all your abilities and such.

EAMythic: That's a great question. The challenge of working on the User Interface is that people tend to use their interface in completely different ways, so building a system that works with all of them can be quite difficult. The reason you tend to see one action bar in most screenshots, honestly, is that it's not often the UI we're trying to showcase, but moreover some aspect of the gameplay or the environments. So the setting simply hasn't been turned on. This leads to, what I think is really your question, which is... will you need to use multiple bars? Well that all depends on how you play, and how you like to manipulate the UI. Our goal while working on it is to provide as many options for you as humanly possible, so that whether you're a person who likes to keep the display to a minimum, or a person who wants to have action bars all over the screen, you'll easily be able to do either.

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After their presentation at the 2008 New York Comic Con, I caught up with Jeff Hickman, Josh Drescher and the always wacky Paul Barnett from EA Mythic's Warhammer Online to talk a little bit about the guys, the promotion of their game and what their in-office jobs actually entail.

The first question that I asked was just how many events like Comic Con (where they gave a very amusing presentation that I will talk about in a later article) they have done over the past few months. After a small fit of laughter, Paul answered with an attempt to put things into a bit of perspective:

"I have done 275,000 air miles over the last two years," he said. Knowing Paul, I asked for clarification and he assures me that not only was that the number when he wrote it in his blog, but that it has increased ever since the last time he checked.

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