Warhammer 40K MMO Will Cost At Least $50 Million

[JordanXlord]

Obligatory:
Spreading the Emperor's name has no price.

You sir, are now my Hero.

Second only to the Emperor, of course.

. Carry on soldier!

*spits on them*

Silly foolish followers of the false god...FOR CHAOS

 

[bloob]

$50 million to make an MMO to combat WoW is not going to be enough, i don't even think it will be enough to combat TOR which is rumoured to have between $100-$300 million depending on which figure you believe.

Personally it is as good a universe as any to make a MMO in, but the choice of developer doesn't inspire me with confidence, darksiders was a massive ripoff of any popular game in a similar genre. As people i.e. yahtzee and extra credits have already pointed out a MMO copying the existing MMOs isn't going to topple the current giant (WoW if that wasn't obvious)

 

[Eldarion]

Worth. It.

This is the only MMO I am seriously considering paying subscription fees for, as long as it's good of course!

Edited a more appropriate quote for an Eldar fan :3

Spoiler: Behold, the fiery destroyer of worlds!

FEEL THE FURY OF THE SWORDWIND!!!

Seriously, give me a game where I can roll an eldar warlock already.

 

[Nouw]

Obligatory:
Spreading the Emperor's name has no price.

You sir, are now my Hero.

Second only to the Emperor, of course.

. Carry on soldier!

*spits on them*

Silly foolish followers of the false god...FOR CHAOS

Spoiler: Just a friendly reminder who's boss :P

 

[Scytail]

screw the emperor and the dark gods. let them throw millions of lives away. the true victors will be the commie space robots who wait quietly in the shadows and expand bit by bit, slowly absorbing other alien races into "the greater good." then we strike the corpse-god down on his golden throne and seeing how the tau cant be corrupted by the dark gods, they dont stand a chance.

 

[GreyKnight3445]

Worth. It.

This is the only MMO I am seriously considering paying subscription fees for, as long as it's good of course!

Edited a more appropriate quote for an Eldar fan :3

Spoiler: Behold, the fiery destroyer of worlds!

that "fiery destroyer of worlds" is probably going to be cloned a dime a dozen and as dangerous as an ant.

 

[kitsunema]

i saw the imperium trailer wating on them to do chaos

 

[Exort]

Granted it's a very brief shot of that Templar shooting, but it looked to me like target selection consisted of manually moving his reticule to the target. Just like most FPS's today.

As for the skill bar....well my (former)favorite online-FPS was Planetside. And it had a skill bar as well:

Yes, but the Warhammer 40k have way more spells and skills, that shows their focus. Maybe a Hybird gameplay?

 

[Nadiril]

screw the emperor and the dark gods. let them throw millions of lives away. the true victors will be the commie space robots who wait quietly in the shadows and expand bit by bit, slowly absorbing other alien races into "the greater good." then we strike the corpse-god down on his golden throne and seeing how the tau cant be corrupted by the dark gods, they dont stand a chance.

Bah, they may not be corrupted by the whispers of the dark gods but they shall die by their hands anyway.

 

[Oroboros]

It's nice to see that the profits from all of those overpriced minis I bought are being put to good use! I have heard that Imperium, Eldar, Tyranids, and Orks will be in, I wonder if the MMO format will allow some of the lesser known factions and xeno races to be represented, like the Hrud or Enslavers? I wonder if the Tau or Dark Eldar will be included either as NPC factions or expansion races for the order/chaos sides they have set up. The Tau are probably a bit unlikely, as much as I like them, but the Dark Eldar seem to pop up all over, so I suppose they might make it in in some form or another.

I usually don't like MMOs, but I might be willing to make an exception for this one, depending how things turn out.

 

[teebeeohh]

my only problem is that the only solution if you want to have factions(and everyone wants factions since they worked so well in wow) is to limit players to the Imperium and maybe make a chaos/orc alliance as the enemy. And that would suck, i will not play this game if can not be an eldar.

I would also settle for piloting a battlesuit

Who says they have to limit the factions? Just because WoW has 2 factions doesn't mean every other game has to have 2 factions.

so which game (besides DAoC) tried more than 2? or less for that matter, even lotro has you playing monsters. the problem would still be that with very few exceptions the Imperium does not ally itself with xenos and it also would be unrealistic to put everyone who is not human into a faction. and if you have more than 2 faction you would need to seriously gimp the Imperial one get some kind of balance between them

Why not have each race be its own faction? No gimping required. Just because more than 2 factions is not the norm doesn't mean it's the law.

i am not saying that i don't like this, there are just two problems i see with this:
1. more than 2 factions splinter the number of players too much and by now everyone who makes an mmo should know that nobody is ever gonna have the numbers of players wow has.
2. all the factions should be of equal strength and the Imperium is just so much more powerful than everyone else(except maybe the tyranids).

 

[Still Life]

I'm sorry... i'm just really detracted by how awesome that image is to have an opinion.

Dayum.

This.

As a rule, I don't touch MMOs simply because they render time and cash as mere play-things for the dark gods....

But, the temptation the idea of a 40K MMO induces...

[/drool]

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I bet it will look something like;

1) Standard game where you and a group, or soloing, go about the galaxy hunting down a certain hero/heretic in a story arc. In some of the books, the humans have teamed up with the Eldar.

2) Mass PvP battles like we see on the tabletops, Space Marines vs Orks for example. Two gigantic armies in a deafening clash.

3) Raid events where you take on a Titan-sized enemy.

 

[Dyp100]

Here's the problem with a WH40k MMO:

People who just like MMO's are going to keep playing WoW, Aion, EQ, whatever - the game they're already familiar with, already have formed loyalties within, and already know that they like.

The people who like WH40k are going to play it - and then quit, because Tyranids would NEVER work together with Chaos, Space Marines would never willingly operate with Eldar (or xenos of any kind for that matter), IG should die WAY faster than they do (i mean, seriously? my khornate berzerker hit that guy THREE TIMES with his axe! an IG shouldn't be able to take ONE hit from a khornate soldier and survive!), they don't have my favorite but ubscoure and underrepresented faction of Space Marines available as a core faction, and there's no 'Rape' option for slaaneshi chaos marines.

The people who just like futuristic fantasy games are probably going to play it for a month or two, and then bail back to the Crysis 2 multiplayer, Microsofts new Halo 4: The Exploitation, whatever new futuristic game Valve is apparently coming out with, and so on... assuming they aren't too busy playing that new Star Wars MMO that's apparently coming out soon... or playing what will probably become a F2P-Freemium Star Trek Online.

In order to get any real kind of success, THQ is going to have to revolutionize how MMOs are played - probably doing something more along the lines of an MMORTS - to keep the core WH40k fanbase happy, and even then I really doubt that the actual fanbase for WH40k, vocal as it is, is actually big enough to sustain a game that cost $50 million at launch...

Space Marines have teamed up with Xenos (especially Eldar) maybe times. Most of time a lot more lax about "heresy" thank mormal Imperium Forces. Slaaneshi isn't only about rape and if you're playing as an IG you'll be in a sqaud, so there you go.

 

[Alar]

I certainly hope they at least make back their investment.

 

[Greyfox_Shep]

Please may they not made this game another "Like World of Warcraft but".

So I'm going to assume that there will be no female space marines (unless like they suggested they use the SoB's), no female orks etc.

Actually, there no female orks in the scenario, because they reproduce by spores (I'm not making this up).
When a ork dies, his body expel spores, that grow in a fungi-like plant that soon give birth to another ork.
The only eficient weay to eliminate the race from a planet afther it first invasion, is by Planet Exterminatus (or a Tyranid invasion maybe).

Source: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Orks#Reproduction

About female space marines, maybe the Sister of Battle could fit in this role as was said before.

 

[Namewithheld]

That makes them no less lame.

W40K is a SciFi for the bold.

I facepalmed so hard, I broke my face.

No. W40K is not 'SciFi for the BOLD', its just vanilla Sci-Fi with a non-Lucas afiliated dark side. God, that was a lame lame lame statement.

You're BOTH wrong.

Warhamemmer 40,000 is a Gothic fantasy set against the backdrop of a Frank Herbert style Galactic Feudalism, with a heavy dollop of romantic idealism, tempered by the 1980s pitch black British cynicism.

Also, the fact that we can't play as Rogue Traders in this MMO makes me sad.

Why no love for the super-rich, swashbuckling privateers flying gigantic battle churches with crews numbering in the tens of thousands?

 

[GonzoGamer]

Well, there goes any hope that there would be no subscription.
If I did pay fees for gaming, this is one I might've payed.
I do hope they have a free trial period.