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Gamesworkshop are giving rights to many companies now, allowing them to make warhammer/warhammer 40k games now. At the same time blizzard is done with the starcraft series after legacy of the void. If gamesworkshop also give the rights to blizzard than i think that would be awesome

1. With starcraft being finished, blizzard won't have any space games anymore. A 40k game series would be a awesome replacement for starcraft as a space war game.
2. With the amount of budget blizzard has, the 40k game they make would be huge and epic.
3. Warhammer 40k's lore, materials, and factions are many times bigger and better than starcrafts so blizzard would plenty to work with.

We already have Dawn of war/Dawn of War 2, rumours of Dawn of War 3, and there's Total Warhammer for WHFB comming out soon; do you really need something else? Also, Blizzard being Blizzard, they'd probably put a monthly fee on it and it won't be availible on Steam.

Maybe a warhammer 40,000 MMO would work?

Dawn of War was a fun game. I liked the 2nd expansion's campaign system.

"Orks, orks, orks, orks... Ready boss!"

Um, you do realise the whole Warcraft series was Blizzard's attempt at a WHFB RTS right? Before the deal was cut?

Starcraft's lore is much more well written and coherent, however. The 40K universe basically makes no sense whatsoever. I would hope that Blizzard can come up with something new on their own better than 40K

Zerg > Tyranids
Terrans > IoM
Protoss > Eldar

I wouldn't sully Blizzard's name with this stuff.

... Blizzard's setting is stolen from Warhammer. You must be on drugs.

Considering that Warcraft and Starcraft are basically converging on having nearly the exact same story barring character names, especially with regards to origins for the races..... Please no.

I don't want Orks to just be honorable misunderstood savages (with a penchant for inexplicable genocide that no one really minds or punishes them for), nor do I want the Imperium to become a lawful good democracy ruled by a human king who always bends over and does what's "honorable", including not marching every genocidal alien into the sea when given the opportunity.

Odds on if this happen they spell it...
Orcs

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Why would blizzards ever want to do this ?
They are one of the few companies that actually takes the time to make high quality games and really cares about their own IP. Doing a quick game based on gw's ip really doesn't seems to fit their style.

Blizzard are smart enough not to get involved with GW. That being said... if a 40k MMO that felt like WoW was released I would do pretty much nothing else than play it.

 Psienesis wrote:
... Blizzard's setting is stolen from Warhammer. You must be on drugs.

If you say so. If they did steal it, they improved it greatly. The IoM is a terrible protagonist. In fact, I want them to lose. I've never rooted against Jim Raynor.

 DoomShakaLaka wrote:
Maybe a warhammer 40,000 MMO would work?

There making one, its called Eternal Crusade.


Blizzard may have a huge budget but it doesnt mean they would dump a ton of it into a Warhammer 40k. Besides GW fan's, the 40k games aren't all that popular.

 morganfreeman wrote:
Considering that Warcraft and Starcraft are basically converging on having nearly the exact same story barring character names, especially with regards to origins for the races..... Please no.

I don't want Orks to just be honorable misunderstood savages (with a penchant for inexplicable genocide that no one really minds or punishes them for), nor do I want the Imperium to become a lawful good democracy ruled by a human king who always bends over and does what's "honorable", including not marching every genocidal alien into the sea when given the opportunity.

^ This. We'll see an erosion of the drimdarkness which underpins the lore. Or they're'll try being grimdark by adding more skulls and expecting it to compensate for a complete re-write of the races' characters- picture Matt Ward turned up to 11.

Please no 40k MMO. I don't want to play as a Space Marine having to pick up Grox droppings for the Planetary Governor's collection.

40k MMO? Yes please. But for the love of all things holy, keep Blizzard away from it.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Please no 40k MMO. I don't want to play as a Space Marine having to pick up Grox droppings for the Planetary Governor's collection.

A 40k mmo is coming.

But don't worry, you'll get Call of Duty in SPACEEEE instead of rep grinding.

We already have Dawn of war/Dawn of War 2, rumours of Dawn of War 3, and there's Total Warhammer for WHFB comming out soon; do you really need something else?

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Dow1/2/Retri were really great games. If you havent tried them. Do.So. Now.

We really dont need a Blizzard attempt at RTS/MMO/RPG/Muddled/Crazy.

Sure, we're all hoping for DoW3 but the predecessors still rock - even GFX-wise (check out Indrids casts on youtube at high 720dpi).

 Ashiraya wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Please no 40k MMO. I don't want to play as a Space Marine having to pick up Grox droppings for the Planetary Governor's collection.

A 40k mmo is coming.

But don't worry, you'll get Call of Duty in SPACEEEE instead of rep grinding.

"Kill 1000 Hive Tyrants to become honored with the <Imperial Inquisition> faction".

Martel732 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
... Blizzard's setting is stolen from Warhammer. You must be on drugs.

If you say so. If they did steal it, they improved it greatly. The IoM is a terrible protagonist. In fact, I want them to lose. I've never rooted against Jim Raynor.

Well yeah that's the point, the IoM aren't the protagonists.. Even the "good guys" aren't really all that good. I think many are drawn to 40k for precisely that reason, there aren't any clear protagonists or antagonists.

Martel732 wrote:

Psienesis wrote:
... Blizzard's setting is stolen from Warhammer. You must be on drugs.



If you say so. If they did steal it, they improved it greatly. The IoM is a terrible protagonist. In fact, I want them to lose. I've never rooted against Jim Raynor.



Well yeah that's the point, the IoM aren't the protagonists.. Even the "good guys" aren't really all that good. I think many are drawn to 40k for precisely that reason, there aren't any clear protagonists or antagonists.

QFT. Seriously, Blizz in all good intentions =/= 40k setting. Jim Raynor, was sort of cool.....
But you really want to list out fluff-wise the best of 40ks characters?

GW isnt perfect but a lot of their fluff is darn darn good > Blizz's

 Delicate Swarm wrote:

Martel732 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
... Blizzard's setting is stolen from Warhammer. You must be on drugs.

If you say so. If they did steal it, they improved it greatly. The IoM is a terrible protagonist. In fact, I want them to lose. I've never rooted against Jim Raynor.

Well yeah that's the point, the IoM aren't the protagonists.. Even the "good guys" aren't really all that good. I think many are drawn to 40k for precisely that reason, there aren't any clear protagonists or antagonists.

The problem is that when I want every faction to die, there's no one for me to relate to.

The problem is that when I want every faction to die, there's no one for me to relate to.

Huh? Im lost - surely you like a single faction? If not, why play 40k at all???

 Ratius wrote:

The problem is that when I want every faction to die, there's no one for me to relate to.

Huh? Im lost - surely you like a single faction? If not, why play 40k at all???

No, they are pretty much all hopeless idiots. I play BA, but I hate them at this point because they suck so hard. Most other marine factions I hate and/or dislike. The IoM in general is stupid, impossible, and depressing all at the same time. Given how stupid the IoM is, I hate the BA for working for them at this point.

No, they are pretty much all hopeless idiots. I play BA, but I hate them at this point because they suck so hard. Most other marine factions I hate and/or dislike. The IoM in general is stupid, impossible, and depressing all at the same time. Given how stupid the IoM is, I hate the BA for working for them at this point.

Ooook. but thats absolutely personal preference.

If you hate the IoM/SMs so much try a Xenos faction.

And game mechanics =/= fluff. IoM stomp mostly but we all know 7ed has them hamstrung :(

 Psienesis wrote:
... Blizzard's setting is stolen from Warhammer. You must be on drugs.

StarCraft isn't. This is a myth.

 SDFarsight wrote:
Also, Blizzard being Blizzard, they'd probably put a monthly fee on it and it won't be availible on Steam.

Really? Diablo 3 or any Diablo series doesn't have a monthly fee. Warcraft never had a monthly fee and StarCraft never had a monthly fee. Wow (no pun intended) 1 game they make and charge a monthly fee, and your comment seems like that is all what Blizzard does is charge monthly fees on all their games.

I just want to know who is the person at GW that told Blizzard they don't want any part of them and they could do a better job at making video games.

 Jimsolo wrote:
40k MMO? Yes please. But for the love of all things holy, keep Blizzard away from it.

Why? Because Blizzard made the most popular and enduring MMO of all time and therefore the proper thing to do would be to hate Blizzard for being successful.

In NZ we call that tall poppy syndrome.

 MarsNZ wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
40k MMO? Yes please. But for the love of all things holy, keep Blizzard away from it.

Why? Because Blizzard made the most popular and enduring MMO of all time and therefore the proper thing to do would be to hate Blizzard for being successful.

In NZ we call that tall poppy syndrome.

No, because blizzard made one of the best mmo's of all time and has since beat that dead horse so much it's just paste, personally, I hate world of warcraft, it's a terrible game that eats people's lives. Starcraft and warcraft were once great games, but they don't provide what I want from a rts these days, too cartoony in graphics, too simplistic (as a balance factor I've been told) and.... Just not.... Big enough, give me warcraft or Starcraft on the supreme commander scale and I'd be happy, get rid of all that chappy 90's rtsrpg crap.

Imagine a Warhammer 40k game done to the scale of Supreme Commander.
I so hate not being able to zoom out when it comes to most real time strategies.