Warhammer Online Cancelled

[Dharkbayne]

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Games Workshop dumps Warhammer Online

Rob Fahey 16:26 21/06/2004
Massively multiplayer project bites the dust as Games Workshop cancels work


British tabletop gaming firm Games Workshop has cancelled work on Warhammer Online, the massively multiplayer game which was being developed by Climax based on its best-known role-playing property.

In a terse statement issued to the financial markets today, Games Workshop said that "this decision was taken following a full review of the progress, costs to date and future costs of the project."

The game was being created as a co-development between Games Workshop and Climax, and both firms have apparently agreed to the termination of the project. It was due to be published worldwide by Sega.

It's not clear what factors caused the development of the title - which was significantly advanced - to be halted, although competition in the massively multiplayer market is certainly tougher now than it was two years ago when the project was started.

Several other Warhammer licensed projects have been given the go-ahead by Games Workshop over the past few years - including online FPS title Fire Warrior, which was developed by Kuju and released last Christmas, and a strategy title, Dawn of War, which is being created by Relic for release later this year.

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From the warhamemr website.....


It is with a great deal of sadness that I have to inform the community that we have decided to discontinue the development of Warhammer Online and will be closing down this website with immediate effect.

This has been a difficult and painful decision but it was taken following a following a full review of the progress of the game, costs to date and future costs of the project. As a result both Games Workshop and Climax Development Limited, the computer games developer, have agreed to terminate the development project.

I would like to say a personal thanks to all of the people who have followed our development over the last few years, your constant support and enthusiasm has meant a great deal to us.

Robin Dews

[firecrackerNC]

Didnt even know it was planned.Never heard about the game.

[Glaynor]

Didnt even know it was planned.Never heard about the game.

[ZionsFire]

Wtf.

[Indecisive]

I wasnt interested in it, still, sucks for the all the fans of it.

My question is why would you stop development when it (seemed) so close to completion?

[Jaged]

Damn, another promicing MMO gone. First it was True Fantasy Live Online, now this. Oh the humanity.

[Desperado]

Had no idea it was being developed. Woulda been cool to be a terminator or a dreadnaught tho :)

[QuakCow]

wait..there was a warhammer online in development...and wth is warhammer, never heard of it...

[Squeeky]

Not enough shameless plugs for the {BOHICA} Boards ;)

[Flashingfish]

Bastards D:<

[TekDragon]

Would of never worked out commercially.

I wish half the developers of MMORPG's realized their game's lack of potential before release. Would of prevented the flooding of the market with such peices of shit as Asherons Call 2, Lineage 2, Shadowbane, FFXI, and others.

[lightfire]

TekDragon Please Shut ur piehole and Shadowbane anf FFXI are VERY good games

[Jaged]

and lineage 2 was good also.

[TekDragon]

TekDragon Please Shut ur piehole and Shadowbane anf FFXI are VERY good games

Shadowbane was a miserable failure due to:

1. Being released in the midst of giants.
2. Having an atrocious interface (point click move).

The premise was good. But then, all premises are good.

FFXI is yet another uninspired level based system. Takes a 7 year old exactly 10 minutes to think up a level based system, and that's what they went for.

and lineage 2 was good also.

There is only one reason to play Lineage 2. It's not for the storyline. It has none. It's not for the gameplay, it sucks. It's not for the leveling system, that's uninspired.

Why would you play it?

Simple.

So you can look up the female elf and female human mini skirts.

Guaranteed the developers of Lineage 2 spent exactly 2 days planning their leveling/gameplay system and spent the next few months perfecting the way the charachters bend over when they run.

[firecrackerNC]

Hey dont be dissing those female elves man.Have you checked some of them out,man they be smoking HOT!!! on a side note,didnt like 3/4 this board all use to play FFXI or whatever?

[TekDragon]

Don't 3/4 of the people on this forum have ADD?

[lightfire]

Doesnt Tekdragon have to find german chicks who cant speak English or Italion.... i cant figure the rest of this out.. err what are we talking about?

[Hezzy]

Doesnt Tekdragon have to find german chicks who cant speak English or Italion.... i cant figure the rest of this out.. err what are we talking about?

:lol:

I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you.

[TekDragon]

They were from the Czech Republic. And they did speak English.. just not very well. Moaning is multi-lingual anyway. So bite me.

We were talking about how many shitty MMORPG's have been released.

[Red October]

I'd expect more to bite the dust. Its well known that the market is kind of saturated with online games, hence there is going to be some spectacular flops...and some are just going to drop out before they become the next flop. If I recollect correctly, the Sim's Online game has around 80,000 subscribers...they were prepared, invested and expecting somewhere in the nieghborhood of half a million. Also, my understanding is even Final Fanatasy did not hit thier numbers...and I would suspect they would lose some when Everquest II comes out. I'm going to bet that eventually there will be just a few major companies that do online games with smaller companies partnering with them to release thier online games (provided the larger company thinks its worth it). Sort of like what we see now in the game console market.

[Infernus]

:lol:

I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you.

Indeed...

[Kaltagesta]

Seriously though, this one looked really good, better than any others i had seen. Pitty. Theres nothing wrong with releasing shitty games - i'd rather have 10 good games and 100 shitty games released, than 10 good games and nothing else. The reviews will let me know what is worth buying.

[Indecisive]

and lineage 2 was good also.

http://www.juju.org/archives/2004/04/01/101_reasons_why_lineage_2_sucks.php

[Dharkbayne]

http://www.lineage2.com/pds/official_view.asp?slt_idx=5&slt_seq=1701

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[I Hate Pants]

FUCK! NOOOOO! My friends and I were anticipating this game! We used to be huge Warhammer fans, but now we don't have time for it anymore. I was hoping this game would be ag reat alternative for not bring able to play the table top version. This fucknig sucks!

Oh well, guess I should consider WoW now.

Dammit! Im so pissed off about this. I wanted to play as an Orc soo bad and start cutting up some high elves and dark elves.

[TekDragon]

If your huge warhammer fans then you should enjoy playing the classic version and leave it at that.

[MadCat360]

Shit...

http://img25.photobucket.com/albums/v75/gonzo232k2/40k_baby.jpg

[Everay]

IMO there are no worth MMOs out there right now, PS is close, but ive played it to death already, the next thing i think that will be good, is gonna have to be JTLS for SWG.

[OfaLoaf]

WO is cancelled? Ballocks.

FUCK! NOOOOO! My friends and I were anticipating this game! We used to be huge Warhammer fans, but now we don't have time for it anymore. I was hoping this game would be ag reat alternative for not bring able to play the table top version. This fucknig sucks!

Oh well, guess I should consider WoW now.

Dammit! Im so pissed off about this. I wanted to play as an Orc soo bad and start cutting up some high elves and dark elves.
You couldn't have been an orc. They only allowed netrual species. Humans, Orges, Elves, Dwarves only.

[Phaden]

Yeh it was gonna be a fantasy game, not for 40K. I talked to one of the devs at Games Day Baltimore opnly a couple weeks ago for over 2 hours. It was quite up there in stages of completion. They had and alpha type thing you could walk around in and explore part of the world, plus tons of animations. They had alot of the structure and basis for the world all planned and partially implemented. Its kinda disapointing as i was really psyched about this, and now they cancelled it.

Makes me sad.

[UncleDynamite]

Oh well.

[Onizuka-GTO]

oh well.

at leased we still have Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War (http://pc.ign.com/articles/515/515191p1.html) to look forward to.

Look at this preview trailer, very nice.


Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War E3 Trailer (http://www.gamershell.com/download_6066.shtml)

[Heavygain]

I have had absolutely no interest in any RPGs other than EQ, ever.

[Onizuka-GTO]

As if EQ is any better..... plus WH40K: DoW isn't a RPG.... :rolleyes:

[Mag-Mower]

Ligar!

[Onizuka-GTO]

Ligar!

:rolleyes:

[Heavygain]

Actually, EQ was a great game until everyone got to the point to it where it was like crack.

[Onizuka-GTO]

You should really download the trailer it's fantastic.

You would not believe this was a RTS. :)