Too bad Mythic isnt developing it :P

LOL  thread just mentioned wanting a 40k game and everyone agreed. Spooky!

Thats awsome news, wish it was Mythic or Relic though developing it!

Originally posted by iduums
not very good news for WAR. There a ton more 40k fans then fantasy.  I think it will destroy war.

However, this game may not be on the market for 3 to 4 yrs

Originally posted by elvenangel
Uhh does that link actually work?  tired to c & p it but i got nothing...besides it can be confirmed all it wants doesn't mean it'll happen.  Of course I'll be honest I have no interestin the 40k world at all.

Wonder why Relic aint doing it, says they were advertising for MMO devs.

What games has Vigil done?

Originally posted by Darkstryder

Wonder why Relic aint doing it, says they were advertising for MMO devs.

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Originally posted by severius
WH 40k is a great IP to have...  Hopefully Vigil games is competent enough with such a HUGE IP.  While most of my Warhammer experience is from the fantasy side the 40k side always seemed more like Warhammer on Steroids :)  Basically what I am saying is that the scope of 40k always seemed huge.  Star Wars was too big for Verant Interactive and the SOE to be truly successful with and 40k seems to dwarf Star Wars in every way.  Then again, it makes for alot of expansion packs hehe.

Just checked them out, cheers. So they must have impressed GW and THQ to be given such a major IP as their first MMO. With an IP like that announced devs are gonna be lining up to get a job with them. They should be able to easily get good experienced talent.

I might contact them for a job, I could be their tester, im very dedicated, I need little sleep and I'll work for a blanket in the corner and beer.

Originally posted by Adythiel
Don't plan on seeing it for quite a few years.

"AJ: Perhaps a detail, but we have actually inked one deal that gives THQ the worldwide, exclusive rights to develop interactive entertainment products based on Warhammer 40,000 for all genres on all platforms. In terms of time scale, the agreement is intentionally set up to have a long enough term that THQ can really design and develop a top-quality, innovative MMO based on our long-established and market-leading Warhammer 40,000 property."

Originally posted by Adythiel
A few years is 3 years.

I'm just saying don't expect to see it before the end of 2008 at the absolute earliest. The part where he mentioned the duration of the license is what makes me believe it will be a game that's 3-4 years out.

Originally posted by severius

Originally posted by Adythiel
Don't plan on seeing it for quite a few years.

"AJ: Perhaps a detail, but we have actually inked one deal that gives THQ the worldwide, exclusive rights to develop interactive entertainment products based on Warhammer 40,000 for all genres on all platforms. In terms of time scale, the agreement is intentionally set up to have a long enough term that THQ can really design and develop a top-quality, innovative MMO based on our long-established and market-leading Warhammer 40,000 property."

hmm it all depends on how much middleware they use etc.  They could be like most everyone else and be licensing the engine (bigworld, unreal3 etc) get speedtree to do all the flora on all their locations, physx or havoc to handle all their booms and flashies.  Depending on how much they are doing completely inhouse etc it isnt beyond reason that 2-3 years could be enough to show something.

Lets look at EA Mythic.  4 years (or so ago) they had announced Imperator Online and had some screenshots and stuff up.  Was scheduled for 2007 I believe?  Maybe 2006.  Anyway.  2 years or so ago Imperator was shelved indefinately and rumors of Warhammer came to light.  Last year EA and mythic joined forces and Warhammer Online is coming late this year.

Age of Conan became common knowledge when.,.. E3 last year? Maybe a couple months before hand and it too is coming this year.

I think the length of the agreement between GW and THQ, not to mention the breadth, is to demonstrate GW's full support of THQ.  And there are hints in there about far more than an MMO.  There cuold be action rpgs coming, shooters, more RTS's, maybe full RPG's etc.  Hopefully though they wont push out a bunch of crap with the WH40k label slapped on it.  I really hope they have seen how bad Lucas handles their own IPs :)

Ok now that i've seen the actual article I'll comment...first im not sure if i can trust anything thats main house is  THQ, sure their strat game is great but...look at the list of games their houses are primarily linked too it makes me question what their design team will come up with regardless of veterans they picked up.    

IT does take up to 3 to 4 years for games to come out to the press and launch.  We may not know about the game being in existance until its a year or two years away from its launch such as the case with Ages of Conan because companies keep a pretty tight veil of secrecy.  

Mythic has definitly been working on Warhammer for quite a while more than likely a seperate small team started the design for the game while they were concentrating on Imperator.  Until the game was ultimately ruled lame, a waste, or just not going anywhere and shelved.  Its really not that uncommon plenty of companies take on a couple of games at once, work and design on both then if one simply just isn't going to work it or there's some polictics involved it gets dropped.

Considering there's no real said plan for if and when this 40k game will come out expect us not to see much of it for atleast 2 to 3 years maybe even longer if they plan the game really well and don't simply clone it from something else.  Even with middleware and other systems they still have to learn how to use those systems and put them together.  And you can't just buy a program that writes the gameplay you have to do that by yourself.    All that plus testing and writing the networking code yea middleware does not cut down on production time really all that much but it does up production costs! 

At this point they simply have the rights too the 40k world and video games that go with it.

Originally posted by logangregor

Too bad Mythic isnt developing it :P

Actually, I think this is a good thing.  THQ >> Mythic.

Originally posted by Sornin
I will reserve judgment until I see some actual information, obviously, but I will say this much: I doubt this Warhammer 40K MMOG will 'own' WAR.

For one, I have serious doubts about the ability of some fairly inexperienced developer to MMOGs making a top-notch MMOG. Sure, it has been done before, and everyone must start somewhere, but recent efforts from newer companies have been fairly disappointing. I just do not trust THQ to pull it off quite yet.

Secondly, I think that while fantasy can be considered to be overdone, it is overdone for a reason - the mainstream MMOG crowd seems to like it. There is certainly room for another good sci-fi MMOG, but they will never topple high fantasy MMOGs in the foreseeable future.

I am indeed curious what the focal point of the game will be. Mythic has RvR, a concept they developed previously and added to in WAR, but what will THQ do to distinguish their game? Should be interesting.

From what they say, while the company is new, the devs ain't. So it is not that these guys are perfect nobodies, they all worked on some other MMorpg project.

of course this could mean a lot or nothing, but still...

I personally do not believe they are making a MMORTS. It makes no sense to NOT give such a project to Relic or at least use Relic as advisors as they are like the Gods of RTS.

So, it is either a MMOFPS, a "small" MMorpg (not taking the whole ip) or something different. They mention the gameplay will be innovative, but of course that could be Corporation bullcrap.

Still, a traditional MMorpg scheme does not work well with Warhammer 40k unless it is necromunda. And that is unprobable "hey, wehave this huge IP everybody knows and you get to do a game for it! Great, we will take this obscure game offshot only 10% of the people actually know and do it on that!!1111"

well there not doing it why do they still have there name all over everything.