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WAR vs WoW? Why not 40k?
Nimr0d23
Member Posts: 58
I wait for the games, WAR is the one of them. I check every news and think about WoW. Any differences? Not too much as I can see. Why not WAR 40k instead? Maybe that can be more interesting (for me). Is there any possibility, that WAR 40k come? 
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Mmm... other than the fact that the Warhammer world was created a good decade before Warcraft?
As much a chance as there is a World of Starcraft.
No longer visiting MMORPG.com.
Right now according to an article on this site, there are no real plans for a Warhammer 40K MMO addition, but same for StarCraft. Althought I will not be surprised if in the future both of those IPs see an MMO medium.
They could launch with three races ( Marines - Orks - Eldar ) and then bring out an expansion each year for the next two or three years with an extra two or three races in each.
The racial design and history is allready in place so minimal work to be done there.
If Planetside can remain profitable all these years with all it's faults and lack of support/extras, then a W40K version should be a certain success in my opinion
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A MMOFPS Warhammer 40k would be awesome though.
To sum it up, 40K wouldn't be 40K without khornate berserkers batteling it out with eldar banshe aspect warriors.
How would they make a 40k MMORPG that stays rempotely close to the backstory and allows players to play the popular 'races' like Space Marines, Eldar, Orks, and Chaos? Most of the different races don't interact outside of shooting each other, and you don't generally have solo space marines wandering around poking into everything. I don't really see how they'd manage to pull it off, while an all-combat MMOFPS-type game where everyone just fights removes the problem of fitting 'individuals doing stuff' with the 40k backstory.
As much a chance as there is a World of Starcraft.
Sweeeeet. Because Bliz is already making World of Starcraft!
40K here we come!!!!
Anyone who says 40K wouldn't work as an MMO is just not thinking outside the box. It can be done.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
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Hope that you are right and we can see that very soon.
No longer visiting MMORPG.com.
Best if everyone just surrenders now and no one tries to come up with anything new.
Move along folks - nothing to see here ... nothing to see .....
Not according to the 2007 forecasts. They already announced that a Starcraft MMO is in the works.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3151483
Of course that is Vivendi talking, Bliz isn't confirming it.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
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As for why the WAR MMO isn't WH40K:
When the original developers (before mythic took it over) were making the game, I had the chance to talk with them at length about the game. Personally I like WH40k better than Fantasy, even though Fantasy is awesome, so I posed such a question to the lead designer (at the time).
He went into a bunch of different reasons, and I'll give a few of his points:
-World Size: Warhammer Fantasy takes place on one planet, while WH40k takes place across an entire galaxy.
-Individuality: In WH40k, if you're a space marine, you're only 1 of millions of space marines and you don't matter so much. With Fantasy, it's easier to bring the player's character to the forefront as an important person.
-Popularity: I'm not sure if it's still true, but at the time more people liked fantasy than 40k
-Established in the Genre: Fantasy mmo's are already established in the genre as being relatively successful. There are far fewer Sci-Fi mmo's out there.
I forget the rest, I have an interview with the guy on a vhs somewhere but I've yet to find it.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
He's referring to the previous holders of the license, Climax, not Mythic.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
Give me a good sci-fi MMO and you'll never see me playing another game. SWG used to have me until they screwed that up... I'd pre-order a 40K mmo right now.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
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I guess they're thinking something along the lines of 'take the best of everything and put it together'.. problem is no matter how good those pieces are in their original environment, you're still creating 'frankenstein'.
We seem to have a built in biological dislike of things we can place as a cloned from somewhere else, in other words we seem to instinctively appreciate originality.
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth." - Henry Mencken
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
"And what would you do with a brain if you had one?" - Wizard of Oz
I guess they're thinking something along the lines of 'take the best of everything and put it together'.. problem is no matter how good those pieces are in their original environment, you're still creating 'frankenstein'.
We seem to have a built in biological dislike of things we can place as a cloned from somewhere else, in other words we seem to instinctively appreciate originality.
Nayh.. you had to actually play that to get the "Wrong Realm" idea, and that also took into account that you actually played D&D in that realm.
No.. Turbine just took a license that should have been MMO gold and made a piss-poor game with it. Almost as bad as $OE taking Star Wars and killing it.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0