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Warhammer 40K MMOG announced.

GreatTeacherMacRossGreatTeacherMacRoss
edited May 2008 in Video Games
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This makes me a bit moist with anticipation.

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  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    Oh boy. There is a nonzero chance that this could make me disappear from public view.

    The Dawn of War franchise is superb.
  • AndrewAndrew
    Oh boy. There is a nonzero chance that this could make me disappear from public view.

    The Dawn of War franchise is superb.
    FRC Clan/Guild. I don't play MMO's but I would have to play this.
  • GreatTeacherMacRossGreatTeacherMacRoss
    If I actually have time to play the game, and it doesn't suck, I'll probably be hooking back up with my old "clan" Sturmgrenadier. The old Planetside days with them, fielding a hundred or so people at once, using Teamspeak to organize and coordinate...epic days my friends.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    edited May 2008
    Oh boy. There is a nonzero chance that this could make me disappear from public view.

    The Dawn of War franchise is superb.
    FRC Clan/Guild. I don't play MMO's but I would have to play this.
    Werd up, yo.

    I cannot express how awesome it would be if this were an MMOFPS. I'm imagining Tribes 2, but somehow more awesome.

    A pipe dream, I know, but I'm allowed to be optimistic about one thing a year.

    EDIT: Wait, this news is over a year old. Is there any more progress on this?
    Post edited by TheWhaleShark on
  • AndrewAndrew
    I cannot express how awesome it would be if this were an MMOFPS. I'm imagining Tribes 2, but somehow more awesome.

    A pipe dream, I know, but I'm allowed to be optimistic about one thing a year.
    I cannot express how disappointed I would be if it was just click and attack like WoW. Having any sort of shooting element would be fundamental to such a game IMHO.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/08/thq-wow-has-peaked-warhammer-40k-mmo-years-away/

    The game is still "years away" according to a THQ exec. Though he claims that WoW has "peaked," which may very well be true.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    I cannot express how awesome it would be if this were an MMOFPS. I'm imagining Tribes 2, but somehow more awesome.

    A pipe dream, I know, but I'm allowed to be optimistic about one thing a year.
    I cannot express how disappointed I would be if it was just click and attack like WoW. Having any sort of shooting element would be fundamental to such a game IMHO.
    We only need look at Star Wars: Galaxies for a prime example of how to totally fuck up firefights in an MMO.
  • AndrewAndrew
    The game is still "years away" according to a THQ exec. Though he claims that WoW has "peaked," which may very well be true.
    It would be crushed by a Starcraft MMO though, which would be ironic to say the least.
  • GreatTeacherMacRossGreatTeacherMacRoss
    The only MMOFPSs that have "done shooting right" have been WWII Online and Planetside. Tabula Rasa had a good idea for mechanics, but failed in implementation. If they go the Star Wars route, then the game will be dead to me and I will never speak of it again. Sort of like how no one talks about any of the other Warhammer games aside from Relic's Dawn of War series because they were all abortions. Firewarrior bring back any horrible memories for anyone else?
  • DaveDave
    edited May 2008
    It would be crushed by a Starcraft MMO though, which would be ironic to say the least.
    Really? Because Starcraft has sold less copies worldwide than WoW has current subscribers. Not to say it couldn't happen, but I wouldn't count on it, and I wouldn't count on Blizzard splitting their own market by making World of Starcraft in the first place.

    As for WoW having peaked, that seems to fly in the fact of them getting another half a mil in subscribers every couple months. At worst its rate of increase is declining, but I think it's going to be a long time before people stop getting into the game. That's just THQ's sour grapes. They want to sell their game so it behooves them to talk bad about the competition.
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  • AndrewAndrew
    Really? Because Starcraft has sold less copies worldwide than WoW hascurrentsubscribers. Not to say it couldn't happen, but I wouldn't count on it, and I wouldn't count on Blizzard splitting their own market by making World of Starcraft in the first place.
    But hasn't Starcraft sold significantly more copies than the Warcraft games? I'm not quite sure your analogy would fit. How many of the current WoW subscribers have even played any of the Warcraft games?
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