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So the game is not dead like I suspected, but it's no longer going to be an mmo. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/03/29/warhammer-40k-dark-millennium-online-is-no-longer-a-mmo.aspx What do people think? Makes sense to me. You can't really expect any mmo to make money and not one on such rocky footing. It's better that they are doing it this way.

"You can't expect MMO to make money"? I thought MMOs were the only games that DID make money?

Good. I hate MMOs.
So...boring.

MMOs are horrible for me at low levels...
As soon as hit mid-levels i have a bit of fun...
As it is i'm not that fussed about this...
As long as hey have some multiplayer...

Joey wrote:"You can't expect MMO to make money"?

Not with SWTOR and WOW around they won't.

Not suprised, least we get the game. Really want to know what they do with the MP.

I find MMOs annoying, especially if they are set in an established universe/fantasy world. The quests are mostly completely idiotic, the fact that enemies just reappear is worse, and that there are one million heroes but only 200 actual inhabitants just makes the whole experience feel like a really cheap county fair ride.

As someone on another board put it: "Good, then at least they won't have a Black Templar taking quests from an Eldar".

Wow, I REALLY wanted this game. The trailers and gak we saw looked really good.

I'm pissed, to say the least. I don't want another "Spess Mehreen". I wanted a Warhammer IP MMO that doesn't have EA to feth it up.

Ya hopefully is dosen't just get turned into SM2. I want to play an ork you know.

I'd kill to play guard, in which cover plays a huge part, but so does blistering offense, supported by countless allies. A mix of battlefront 2 and gears of war. I'm probably raving like a lunatic.

Im surprised they didn't try Perfect World Entertainment, they turned Star trek online around.

Skarwael wrote:

Joey wrote:"You can't expect MMO to make money"?

Not with SWTOR and WOW around they won't.

Plus the fact that unless your MMO is really, extremely, amazingly top-of-the line, odds are people will go for one of the hundreds of free MMOs out there. Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villains, Star Trek Online...I mean, even if there are a lot of really low-quality ones out there, there are quite a few MMOs that are pretty darned good considering they're free. I for one spent a couple hundred hours screwing around in Champions Online.

Honestly, I'm happy about this news. I've had a lot of bad experiences with MMOs - the only one I still play is World of Warcraft. I've wasted a lot of money paying for subscriptions to games that I ultimately never played again - RIFT, Champions Online, and City of Heroes I was all coerced into buying (Champions and RIFT I bought at launch, so there's 100 bucks down the drain alone) and wound up either hating the game (City of Heroes) or realizing that I don't know anyone who actually plays, and got bored (Champions and RIFT). At least now I can feel that I can buy a $50 (or $60) game and still have a fine single-player experience.

Is there any word on whether or not the game will change? I mean, I imagine it's kind of unfeasible to do a single-player game where you can pick one of like nine different, unique storylines to choose from...I suppose it could be the same story from any race's perspective, but this is the one universe that nobody gets along, so I can't see that being realistic in any way.

Well this is interesting....

Huh. So they cancel Space Marine 2 so they can make DMO, and now they've pulled the plug on DMO to make pseudo-Space Marine 2? Well, isn't that ironic

Oh THANK GOD.

Im actually going to get the game now that it is not an MMO.

I wonder how much of the game they are going to change though? Will we still be able to play different races?

As long as we can still create our own cahracter instead of roleplaying whatever douche they want to roleplay.

I'm upset about it but I understand why. I'm pretty all they've been doing for the past year and a half is the conversion from MMO to SP game.

So instead of looking like WoW it will be more like Skyrim?
I am so pleased....

If there is something I like in a game that's a good story and a lot of freedom, I think that this decision is a good idea.
Unless they give us just one option and one race to play with, then it will be dumb.

Mind you, an open world you're free to roam and diverse character options are staples of the MMO genre.

Good to see the project isn't dead, I guess.

Hyd wrote:Mind you, an open world you're free to roam and diverse character options are staples of the MMO genre.

Then I will rephrase myself: I love to play a game with open world and lot of character choices and I love to play them alone.
Games like Skyrim, Oblivion, RAGE, STALKER, Fallout...

Yes, I actually miss good single player content.

Them making this a single player game will mean that they just focus on gameplay content, because they no longer have to worry about server issues. And as a side benefit, single player games don't have internet lag.

nomotog wrote:Ya hopefully is dosen't just get turned into SM2. I want to play an ork you know.

Agreed. I was so looking forward to this game, now I dont know WTF its going to be like. As long as we end up with a good game in the end. Guess we all have to just sit around and wait and see.

Melissia wrote:As long as we can still create our own cahracter instead of roleplaying whatever douche they want to roleplay.

This x about 20 million.

Yeah, it's all about getting to play your own race.

bombboy1252 wrote:

Melissia wrote:As long as we can still create our own cahracter instead of roleplaying whatever douche they want to roleplay.

This x about 20 million.

Make that x 200 billion

Or more thematically... that*40k?

I'd rather have a well made, open-world 40k single player RPG than a bloated WoW-clone 40k MMO.

corpsesarefun wrote:I'd rather have a well made, open-world 40k single player RPG than a bloated WoW-clone 40k MMO.

This.
I'll be damned if I have to kill 50 orks to get a single bloody item to finish a goddamned fetch quest for some lazy cryptek.

Part of me says damn.

A far larger part of me says yay. I wont have to spend hours upon hours training. I was also wondering how they would stop everybody playing as a space marine, we would easily have more marine players than guard players.

corpsesarefun wrote:I'd rather have a well made, open-world 40k single player RPG than a bloated WoW-clone 40k MMO.

Except nothing pointed to the MMO version being what you said.