My apologies if this has been mentioned before but recently I heard you will be able to contract vampirism or lycanthropy. Going through my older issue of Game Informer, it mentions they have no plans for it. Was this a recent change or did I misread/not hear something correctly?

Nah, they said that vampirism and lycanthropy were in a while ago. Maybe Game Informer was before that.

Since, this is an mmo don't expect either of them to be fun or difficult.

That's good to hear. Should be interesting once we see that in action.