THQ is doing really quite well of late, especially with its collection of original and promising games. It's doubtless been helped along by the Warhammer 40,000 license, with Dawn of War being a superb and popular franchise. Who can blame the publisher for believing that a Warhammer 40K MMO could last for at least seven years?
At THQ's conference call yesterday, the publisher revealed that it would be showing off 40K at E3, and that it believes the game will be its biggest money maker.
"The highest ranking revenue opportunity for us clearly is the Warhammer 40k MMO," stated THQ chief Brian Farrell. "Again, I encourage you to come by and see what we are seeing at E3 with that when we fully unveil it, but we think we are going to have a very competitive MMO.
"As you know, one of the big wins there is when you are successful with those properties, you have a long life on both revenues and cash flow, that's not just one year or two years it can go, five, six, seven years. So that's probably the biggest opportunity."
The 40K MMO is in the hands of Vigil, who proved themselves with Darksiders. It's in good hands, it doesn't tread the usual high fantasy ground, and everybody loves a little 40K. It's certainly got a better start than most wannabe MMOs, and I wish it all the best. It might be the kind of MMO I could really get into.
Warhammer 40k MMO 'could last seven years' [CVG]
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10:00 AM on 02.04.2010
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Please bring this to consoles!
Killed in battle? become a Dreadnought oh Yeah!
I want something that is clear in concept where the disginers make changes in the existing game with thought torwards the players.
I played a Disciple of Khane (a hybred healer melee DPS) in WAR, and honestly it was one of the most fun expriences in a MMO I had. They really made the class work well and shine, for the most part.
Then they upped and completely changed the armor stats on the class, not a big deal you might say, but half of my gear I had worked my ass off for was now useless to the way I had built up my playstyle. NO RESPECT FOR THE PLAYER. At least give me a chance to change in my gear.
So yeh, I might give a 40k mmo a try, but I will wait atleast 6 months in, probably a year.
Your female gamer friends are VERY different from mine.
I know girls who are into games like Halo and COD as well, but they don't play MMOs. Of course, there are always exceptions, but Warhammer is about as dark, gritty and masculine as fictional worlds come. But hey, if Vigil can make me eat my words, more power to them.
I really hope they don't do the Warhammer Online thing on just sticking races together into weird alliances to try to match WoWs two opposing factions. I'd rather they just went, there's the Space Marines, Chaos, Eldar and Orks. All on all...off you go!
When is this supposed to come out? How much do i have left to live a normal social life?
That's only because the sad truth is, people are idiots.
Pick up ANY of the books from BlackLibrary to see it's surely not something for little kids to be reading and much more oriented to a mature audience.
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That kid.
He is the one.
Loved to play this when i was young, second edition, Imperial Guard 20 000points
(now it isnt that much anymore but in 2nd edition this was freaking imense)
All for the emperor! ;)
I'm VERY excited about this. I found out about Warhammer online early on in my time at school, waited years only be disappointed by a PVP-fest with very little depth. I REALLY hope THQ understands how make an MMO. I'm worried they might try and make themselves unique with some irritating gimmick, instead of letting the general interest of the title and lore do it for them.
I don't want it to go the way STO seems to have gone, a 40k MMO deserves more than to suffer mediocrity.
But if you fail to deliver an experience worthy in the eyes of the Emperor's chosen servants, we will descend upon you, and the Galaxy shall shudder before our wrathful fury.
DIVINA EST MULTIPLAYATOR. AVE LEVELGRINDICUS. IN NOMINE PI VI PI. FOR THA EMPRAH.
all i want is to cleanse the souls of the heritics with white-hot prometheum and send their unclean spirits to the warp for judgement.
I hope servo-skull is a playable race/class.
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