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Warhammer MMO for PC/Console in Development at Jackalyptic
Dragnelus
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It's an Austin studio formed and owned by NetEase.
PvE focus which is interesting. I saw some of the comments on that page laughing at that while the core tabletop army game is PvP, a lot of the other content around that franchise isn't.
Wouldn't put it past them to do arenas and battlegrounds too for PvP. Just the distinction that it's not the "core" experience they claim to be focused on.
In conclusion. I haven't the foggiest what to expect. I'll certainly give it a look when it's further along.
Doesn't seem so. The other MMO (linked in the article) is to be set in the Age of Sigmar, so I would assume GW would not sell 2 licenses to the same MMO setting (although who knows, I wouldn't put anything past them). I would probably bet on the old world Warhammer setting for this newly announced game(*). I mean, who would want to play Age of Sigmar? Apart from GW, of course...
The wording of the announcement is also a bit ambiguous, it could be a 40k MMO, since 'Warhammer' can refer to both settings. I would probably lean this way, since it will take a few years to develop, while in the meantime the new 40k show co-produced by GW, Amazon and Cavill will have already launched. So in case the series is successful, it would make good business sense to follow the first season or two with a MMO tie-in.
(*) A small edit: especially after the phenomenal success of the Fatshark's F2P move with Vermintide 2. I mean, 10 million players grabbed a copy and the game had for a while around 100k concurrent players on Steam. That's a pretty powerful message and not one in AoS's favour.
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I would play AoS IF they changed their stance on Endtimes, retconned them out and made AoS into a parallel dimension or afterlife of sorts. It has some very interesting ideas, both lore and gameplay wise, but ...
... these grudges can never be forgotten. Until they are resolved that is. But that's on them, not me.
MMO's are in a weird place at this point. Do they just make another generic MMO or try something different.
Yeah, Fatshark made it F2P last November or something like that, for about a month. Later they published a news item on Steam about how they were floored by 10 million people grabbing the game within the few weeks if was F2G. For a while it was among the top 10 concurrent games on Steam.
Smart move, if you ask me, as they also followed with greatly discounted DLCs, so probably made a truckload of money off this move.
So, my guess would be that this will be a 40k game published by Amazon, tied with the planned show (for all the extra $$$) - season 1 and 2 to be released in 2025 (or perhaps Christmas 2024) and 2026, to be followed by the new 40k MMO in 2027 - 2028; if not, then out of the two options, the old world setting of Warhammer fantasy is incomparably more interesting and popular, plus the AoS is with Nexon anyway and very few people actually care about AoS to begin with. I don't think AoS will be retconned, for some reason, GW seems to be oddly mesmerised by this inferior and dull setting, which is a mystery to me, considering the appeal of games like TW:W and Vermintide.
To summarise my bets for this new MMO: 1) WH40k; 2) Warhammer old world; 3) AoS