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As almost everyone should know Dark Millennium Online the Warhammer 40,000 mmorpg is being released some time this year. PC Gamer announed late 2011 and game.co.uk have said the 4th of March 2011.
I personally am bobbing around my house in anticipation to such a game. Please post your comments on DMO, what class/race you want to be, who you want featured, when it's released, rumours, etc.

I'll pay a million pounds for the opportunity to drive a Titan.

Source for these dates? Cause most places say 2012 or even 2013

Soladrin wrote:Source for these dates? Cause most places say 2012 or even 2013

Last time I heard about the game I was interested in being a tech priest, so unless something more interesting comes along I guess that.

That's funny because what game.co.uk actually says about the release date is nothing at all.

Troll harder.

Who are you even talking to?

The OP, duh.

Doh.. >_>

I have to say, that GAME does put up random release dates. That's why they suck.

Hell, I went in there to get one game, and they told me it wasn't released (after about 10 minutes of looking on the computer). I promptly went and bought it in the HMV next door.

Funny, Gamestop did that too, but everyone knows Gamestop are a bunch of lying bastards anyway so I guess we just expect it from them.

Definitely not going to be March 2011 as I have been told I am in with a good chance of being in the early preview group. Most likely late 2011 from my understanding so far but I dont have concrete info yet.

So late 2011 or early/mid 2012. I can deal with that.

Yea, I guess its a good thing Im getting a new PC this tax season


Im pretty stoked, so much so I never use that word. Obviously, Ill be an Ork first off. And seeing that footage of flying a deffkopta around makes my heart pound. How badass would that be?

Is there any new news on it yet though? I stopped looking about a month or so ago, because it was the same recycled crap

Nothing at the moment.

Sadly all the shows where info will probably come out are a way off yet.

So unless they surprise us with a direct release of info via their own site, or a in depth magazine special, it's going to be a quiet few months I reckon.

Of course once a Beta kicks off, news will trickle through much more often.

Is that like, late 2011 normal people time, or late 2011 mmo-developer time, "meaning add 2 years to any date listed"?

When I move down to Austin and totally get a job at Vigil I'll tell you guys what's up.

But, I'm betting no release till 2012+, its an MMO after all...

This site says it's somewhere between April 1 2012 and March 31 2013.
I'm not sure how reliable it is though.

They apparently have verification, but I can't listen to it right now.

Yeah, thats the word that's been given by official channels, been news for a while.

I keep seeing shorter dates thrown around, but nothing from Vigil/THQ.

Warp Watchers has been on top of the news for the past year and a bit. We had other DMO sites getting there info from us, so we know we where quick.

Well, all I know is I want to be an ork, and tech priest.

this game looks great i want it to be out now but i can wait a lil bit longer

The way I see it, StarWars online is coming out this year. That can hold me over until 40k comes out. then StarWars will most likely not ever see me again

They're proably waiting until RIFTs dilutes WoW a bit and then they might be able to steal a share of the market.

Phototoxin wrote:They're proably waiting until RIFTs dilutes WoW a bit and then they might be able to steal a share of the market.

I'm going to say I doubt this, and the reason they haven't released, and aren't releasing soon, is because it simply isn't ready.

Over the next few months is probably the most optimal time for any MMO to be released. Players have been crying out for a viable alternative to World of Warcraft/EVE Online for some time, and taking full advantage of that is to the developers best interest. Especially as several of the highly anticipated MMOs are expected to be released later this year/early next year (The Old Republic and Guild Wars 2 to name the bigger ones) that will cause competition and people not wanting to leave their established community.

RIFT plays decently, and is certainly a half-decent or better game, but it's too similar to WoW to really draw large portions of the market away from WoW. Quite a few players will think 'I have friends in this game. Do I want to try a new game that may not succeed, and is pretty much a more polished version of this game, or just stay here and save myself the trouble, and enjoy my time with the friends I've made.'

Of course, that would be my reasoning seeing it from the players perspective, and you could be correct. But I personally doubt it.

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I am rather interested in seeing more about DMO, but everything I've seen has been the same stuff over and over.

Therefore, my interest is on the backburner until more consistant information begins being released.

I know for a fact WoW players are getting sick/bored with it. My brother inlaw has played horde since the game came out, hes one of those guys that has like 6 maxed out toons. He completely HATED the alliance. But no more then a month ago he swapped every one of his toons to alliance for a change of pace, and apparently ALOT of people have done the same. WoW was certainly a great MMO, but everything must come to an end at some point in time. I think WoW has just hit that point, kind of the beginning of the end thing

WoW is getting stale the more you play anyway, it's like a repeat job, the end game content, is where you and your team manage to bully couple of characters that is might as well be unbeatable in the real warcraft universe

Another complaint: It makes blizzard delay their games... ALOT

I want an RPG to the taste of WH40K or Starcraft
please no more medieval fantasy, sword and magic RPG

Retrias wrote:please no more medieval fantasy, sword and magic RPG

This.

I think the issue with future RPG's is the fact that they have to have a lot more features than a sword and bow RPG. Namely they have to worry about players wanting to ride around in vehicles and then there are the guns. Everybody likes guns, but everyone likes their gun to be different. People are going to want gun-specific upgrades and customizations because its the future so they should be able to customize their gun.

Then back to the vehicles, we're talking the ability to pilot tanks and crew titans. People are going to want that because its there and that leads to issues. Then there's the shooting aspect of the game, deciding whether or not a person hits or misses is one issue. Then they have to decide how they do the shooting, auto-aim, FPS style, etc. I've seen MAG work out well with the FPS view and that runs 256 players, now they need to see if something like that is possible for potentially over a million people.

Out of all of this, it looks a lot better graphics wise than WoW. I can only hope that I can get a good computer before it comes out and of course hope that it will have an optional subscription fee.

No they will go with a subscription for sure. Ive heard they are going to have some options as far as not pull a WAR and making the game to hardcore PC stats. That was one of the problems with that game. Sure it wont be nearly as lax as WoW but Im sure if you have a modern PC youll handle it fine. Seriously, cant wait to be a PK weilding nob, or possibly a Mek of some kind. Now THAt would be the tits.Not really sure what they have as far as that goes, but we will all see soon enough I guess

Duplicate.

Nevermind.

I haven't been following this one, I hope its not a Warhammer Esque world like WAR was.

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Seriously, One God ravaging the Empire, and Male DE sorcerers? Not to mention Orcs taking orders from Goblins...