According to a rumor report at Kotaku, games industry insiders are reporting that THQ is readying itself for sale by divesting itself of properties as well as cancelling any titles due for release in 2014. The latter includes Warhammer 40K: Dark Millenium Online.

THQ's stock has tumbled from $6.00 per share last year to $0.66 per share currently.

We will keep you posted as this story develops.

I hope it does not get cannceled I wanted looking forward to this game.

Well,I think they were going about making this MMO all wrong anyways..

2 factions..and themepark WoW style?  sounds like just another 1-2 month wonder to me.

To be honest i am pretty sure this game did not have a snowballs chance in hell... It is not a good setting for a MMO and i have a hard time seeing it work as a PvE game.

I wondered how they dared to make a warhammer game when the first one failed so badly.
The Fanbase did not save the first one, why should the second one have a better chance?

Ok, i am not a fan of Warhammer at all and no, i dont think that World of Warcraft is good either - it only was a computer game that had a good multiplayer support when everything else was vastly inferior.

So i could not care less...

How in the frozen hell did their stock drop from 6$ to 0.6$ in one year? They are not some left out small company, they were doing stuff! Economical crisis my ass, this is absurd!

2 factions....Wasn't looking too forward to this, worried it would be WAR again...

Warhammer won't be able to compete anyways. No when they are going the traditional route. That check list mentality is dying and will be dead by the end of the year.

Originally posted by Sideras

Warhammer won't be able to compete anyways. No when they are going the traditional route. That check list mentality is dying and will be dead by the end of the year.

 

But that's the thing: Warhammer is such a rich universe with a solid lore and feel. 40k is THE opporunity for new mmo mechanics - Squad management, planetary invasions, 6 or more factions with no alliance between them strategically attacking and retreating. It's too bad Dark Millenium didn't seem to tkae full advantage of the license (from what I read and saw)

Originally posted by Thorqemada

I wondered how they dared to make a warhammer game when the first one failed so badly.
The Fanbase did not save the first one, why should the second one have a better chance?

Ok, i am not a fan of Warhammer at all and no, i dont think that World of Warcraft is good either - it only was a computer game that had a good multiplayer support when everything else was vastly inferior.

So i could not care less...

For the record Warhammer 40k is a different intellectual property than Warhammer Online.  The lore and stories for both games are very different.

The Warhammer 40k franchise has been more developed over the years because of the 40k Dawn of War series (DOW the RTS and the 9-part DOW2 action series).  Also there has been a first person shooter for Warhammer (SPACE MARINE).  The game also spun off a DnD style online game that was popular in the 90s and a very large fan fiction following (http://www.fanfiction.net/game/Warhammer/)

The 40k franchise is ar more popular than the Warhammer franchise.

Warhammer Online was made by EA-Mythic ONLY because they deal with fantasy games (Dark Age of Camelot) and they could not get the 40k license.

The 40k license was already owned by THQ which has been making wildly successful Warhammer 40k games with it.

If 40k launched I'm sure it would have did great sales to pay off its development and would have at least three months worth of subscriptions.... which is a lot for this industry.

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Originally posted by AndrosTRB

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Originally posted by Sideras Warhammer won't be able to compete anyways. No when they are going the traditional route. That check list mentality is dying and will be dead by the end of the year.  

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But that's the thing: Warhammer is such a rich universe with a solid lore and feel. 40k is THE opporunity for new mmo mechanics - Squad management, planetary invasions, 6 or more factions with no alliance between them strategically attacking and retreating. It's too bad Dark Millenium didn't seem to tkae full advantage of the license (from what I read and saw)

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That is why i have ever wished that someone would make a true Battletech-MMO-RPG-SIM.
The rich universe, the many factions, the state of unrest between all factions, the strategy, the sim-character of the tactical combat instead of being one more point & click to death fps.
Now i am happy to get at least a probably well thought combat simulator that changes the persistent map of the universe with planetary takeovers as the result of the combat missions you play and if its successfull it may grow into more.

This.......makes me very sad. I love the 40k universe and was looking forward to seeing how this turned out.

I'm just hoping that we don't see an announcement that EA has purchased THQ and resurrected the 40k mmo.  Better the game die than suffer that fate.

Originally posted by Thorqemada

That is why i have ever wished that someone would make a true Battletech-MMO-RPG-SIM.
The rich universe, the many factions, the state of unrest between all factions, the strategy, the sim-character of the tactical combat instead of being one more point & click to death fps.
Now i am happy to get at least a probably well thought combat simulator that changes the persistent map of the universe with planetary takeovers as the result of the combat missions you play and if its successfull it may grow into more.

So you're telling me that:  http://mwomercs.com/ won't count huh?

That sucks.  I'd rather be jockeying than running around trying to RP crap.  Give me my V-Tol or my hovercraft over your mech anyday.  My machine gun crits will rip any mech you field to shreds.

Originally posted by AndrosTRB

Originally posted by Sideras

Warhammer won't be able to compete anyways. No when they are going the traditional route. That check list mentality is dying and will be dead by the end of the year.

 

But that's the thing: Warhammer is such a rich universe with a solid lore and feel. 40k is THE opporunity for new mmo mechanics - Squad management, planetary invasions, 6 or more factions with no alliance between them strategically attacking and retreating. It's too bad Dark Millenium didn't seem to tkae full advantage of the license (from what I read and saw)

Originally posted by augustgrace

I'm just hoping that we don't see an announcement that EA has purchased THQ and resurrected the 40k mmo.  Better the game die than suffer that fate.

Amen.

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Originally posted by Ikeda

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Originally posted by Thorqemada
That is why i have ever wished that someone would make a true Battletech-MMO-RPG-SIM.
The rich universe, the many factions, the state of unrest between all factions, the strategy, the sim-character of the tactical combat instead of being one more point & click to death fps.
Now i am happy to get at least a probably well thought combat simulator that changes the persistent map of the universe with planetary takeovers as the result of the combat missions you play and if its successfull it may grow into more.

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So you're telling me that:  http://mwomercs.com/ won't count huh?
That sucks.  I'd rather be jockeying than running around trying to RP crap.  Give me my V-Tol or my hovercraft over your mech anyday.  My machine gun crits will rip any mech you field to shreds.

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In your dreams :D

R.I.P. THQ :(

Originally posted by augustgrace

I'm just hoping that we don't see an announcement that EA has purchased THQ and resurrected the 40k mmo.  Better the game die than suffer that fate.

Amen.

Someone should save their lunch money and buy the game from THQ. I've been trying to win the lottery just in case something like this happens, but so far that plan hasn't worked out.

Also, these are just Twitter rumors (so far).