That same third-quarter earnings report also revealed that Warhammer Online was hovering at about 300,000 subscribers, certainly nothing to sneeze at, but well short of the million or so players industry watchers had expected. It's the event that no MMO ever wants to have happen -- server shutdowns. Gamasutra is reporting that EA/Mythic's Warhammer Online will be shutting down between 43 and 63 servers in order to consolidate its population.

Despite the bad news, however, Mythic remains resolutely upbeat in its future projections for the game. It recently launched the "Bitter Rivals" live event, part of an ambitious expansion schedule for the project Mythic is calling A Call to Arms.The producer of both WAR and Dark Age of Camelot has been plagued in recent months by a number of unfortunate incidents and rumors, including reports of the loss of several members of its customer service and QA teams. Mythic was also hit with its share of company-wide layoffs when EA decided to reduce staff by 11%.