Originally posted by GreenOne
The owners of WH are corporate asses who only want to make more cash with their franchise.
Hey, guys. You want to be in video games, BE in video game. It\'s a tough field, lots of competion you can\'t just ignore this time, but sharks as you are you could just make it.
So sell wargaming back to people who care about it, and start making videogames, if that\'s what you wish.
The game will probably be less interesting than wow or the others, it won\'t bring new people into warhammer, surely will not get them to paint either, they\'ll choose WoW and keep on playing videogames excessively.
I doubt there will be a confrontation mmog, these guys got their head in the right place.
Sorry if I repeat myself, or if I break your buzz, but I really feel it\'s a bad,bad thing.
We already got plenty of video games...
OK, well to let off some steam back at you, some of your points are naive, some are misinformed, and some just sound like you want to rant at GW because you don\'t like them. It\'s not exactly a solid argument!
Games Workshop want to make more cash with their franchise? Really? A company that wants to make money, good grief, the shareholders must be furious!
So getting past the craziness of that argument, believe it or not, fans of Games Workshop want to play quality computer games based on the worlds. The people who work at GW want the games to be as good as they can be too, and lots of them are huge fans of MMOs.
The original Warhammer Online was a joint venture, not just GW selling the licence to another developer, where they tried to be as involved as possible because they recognised this could be something special. Largely because of the companies naivety in the field it turned out to be a huge failure that cost many millions of pounds before being canned. They could have kept at it and released an inferior product to try and make some of that money back, but they didn\'t, they bit the bullet and pulled the plug. That\'s hardly an evil money grabbing attitude.
Now (with a new developer making it as a licensed product) it looks like the most interesting MMO around, with critical and professional approval to go along with it. This isn\'t some inferior WoW clone as you seem to think, it\'s being made by one of the most respected MMO developers around, has a completely different gameplay structure to most MMOs out there. If you take some time to look into it you\'ll see that this isn\'t a basic grind game. They really are trying to make sure it has more to it than that, a serverwide ongoing conflict that you can influence, with all sorts of other stuff thrown in.
Also, why should the aim be to bring more people into the hobby? Why should it be to get people painting? It will generate a little extra interest no doubt, it will probably add to the GW coffers from extra revenue generated, but most importantly to me, and other people who want to play a Warhammer MMO, it will give that opportunity.
We do already have plenty of computer games, but we don\'t have a Warhammer MMO. I want to play a Warhammer MMO, lots of other people do. Or would you rather get hold of another generic FPS?
