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warboss wrote:They've posted another article from THQ saying its not cancelled on kotaku.com.

http://kotaku.com/5876348/thq-says-it-has-not-cancelled-its-2014-lineup

Makes sense. There were too many things that didn't make sense in this story.

lord marcus wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:Relic is owned by THQ but all THQ does is publish the games - Relic will live on regardless, it's just a mystery over what publisher buys them up if this is all true. Personally I'm hoping it's not because I generally like the IPs THQ pushes, and they aren't as evil as Activision.

Activision is evil?

Just Bobby Kotick.

RatBot wrote:conversely, I've never met anyone who picked up the tabletop game because of the video games.

I picked up the tabletop game after playing Dawn of War.

Guys, you do realize that Kotaku is journalism, not news. The difference between the two is very fine, but yes. How one tweet gets turned into "THQ is selling its soul" I may never know.

N10do64 wrote:Guys, you do realize that Kotaku is journalism, not news. The difference between the two is very fine, but yes. How one tweet gets turned into "THQ is selling its soul" I may never know.

What is the difference, in a modern setting between a bunch of people giving their opinions on world views [or the opinions of their higher ups] and people giving their opinion on world views?

Oh wait.

Ouze wrote:

RatBot wrote:conversely, I've never met anyone who picked up the tabletop game because of the video games.

I picked up the tabletop game after playing Dawn of War.

Now you have.

I played 40k after I played DoW.

RatBot wrote:

Lorek wrote:

Sucks for everyone waiting for the 40K MMO, but I think it's good for the hobby in the long run; gamers will spend more time at the table and less at the PC.

I've never heard of anyone spending less time playing 40K because of Dawn of War/Space Marine, and conversely, I've never met anyone who picked up the tabletop game because of the video games.

I picked up the tabletop game because of the DoW games and the Ghaunts Ghosts novels

N10do64 wrote:Guys, you do realize that Kotaku is journalism, not news. The difference between the two is very fine, but yes. How one tweet gets turned into "THQ is selling its soul" I may never know.

Actually wrong on that count. They are a website similar to Celebrity fix or other trash websites, publishing sensationalist nonsense and pushing forward stupid opinions.
A real journalistic gaming website would be Rock Paper Shotgun. Kotaku is just Gawker rubbish, publishing controversial headlines to get views.

I'm failing to see how that differs from most News.

Scipio Africanus wrote:

Ouze wrote:

RatBot wrote:conversely, I've never met anyone who picked up the tabletop game because of the video games.

I picked up the tabletop game after playing Dawn of War.

Now you have.

I played 40k after I played DoW.

DoW introduced me to the franchise, books fostered my interest, and eventually jumped in two years ago. So... I guess by extention DoW got me into it as well.

n0t_u wrote:I'm failing to see how that differs from most News.

He called them a journalistic website, they are not. They are a worthless news site, that's only popular because of sensationalist rubbish.
Thats the difference good sir .

Since this was false shouldn't the thread be closed?

Hehe

http://kotaku.com/5876348/thq-says-it-has-not-cancelled-its-2014-lineup

double reply.

It's disappointing, because I like Homefront. I'm playing the multiplayer on ONLIVE and it's pretty good! It's not CALL OF DUTY but it's very good!

poipo32 wrote:Since this was false shouldn't the thread be closed?

I was hoping to see a few more people for whom the 40K related video games introduced them to the tabletop game before the lock.

Yup, DoW got my friend into it too, as well as fueling my own interest.

Two for one there Ouze.

AresX8 wrote:

Moopy wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:

WoW has been circling the drain for a while now. Also how is a game we haven't even played, let alone seen finished gameplay of, guaranteed to be a failure?

There's no proof in your statement about WoW. Your personal opinion? Ok, but no proof.

...

There is, actually.

http://kotaku.com/5800175/world-of-warcraft-suffers-post+cataclysmic-drop-in-subscriptions

http://pc.ign.com/articles/118/1186203p1.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Q3-2011-Mike-Morhaime-China-Pandaria-GAAP,13934.html

Math says thats a 5% drop. I wouldnt trust a website that dwells on the numbers instead of % , especially for a giant company such as Blizzard

THQ admits that they have "not made any decisions regarding the planned MMO". This is considerably less than "We are still willing to do this" but more than "We cancelled the MMO". So the thread has its merit.

Ouze wrote:

poipo32 wrote:Since this was false shouldn't the thread be closed?

I was hoping to see a few more people for whom the 40K related video games introduced them to the tabletop game before the lock.

On the off chance you were serious: hi RatBot.

AresX8 wrote:

Moopy wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:

WoW has been circling the drain for a while now. Also how is a game we haven't even played, let alone seen finished gameplay of, guaranteed to be a failure?

There's no proof in your statement about WoW. Your personal opinion? Ok, but no proof.

...

There is, actually.

http://kotaku.com/5800175/world-of-warcraft-suffers-post+cataclysmic-drop-in-subscriptions

http://pc.ign.com/articles/118/1186203p1.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Q3-2011-Mike-Morhaime-China-Pandaria-GAAP,13934.html

Losing 2 million chinese subscriptions and being lower on the total account end while still above 10mil = not circling the drain.

Kroothawk wrote:THQ admits that they have "not made any decisions regarding the planned MMO". This is considerably less than "We are still willing to do this" but more than "We cancelled the MMO". So the thread has its merit.

At the very least, I'll report the thread to have a mod (or the OP, if (s)he see's it first) to add a ? to the title.

DarkHound wrote:On the off chance you were serious: hi RatBot.

I was totes serious. I think rather a lot of people got into the tabletop game from playing the video games first. Just my anecdotal evidence though.

On topic, the loss (if it happens) of this game is crushing to me. I was really excited about it despite having sworn off muhmorpergers right after my extended stay in Norrath.

I was interested in 40k before playing the games, buy buying Dark Crusade is finally what got me to start buying a Tau army.

THQ was at a low of $2 when every other company was low too in August.
Space Marine came out did good,thier quarterly came out saying they lost money compare to last year(everyone did)
But they made 500 million more than they were expecting.
Stocck went up to $2.30
They hit a tripped over a hurdle with Udraw for the Xbox/PS3
It was a major dud,everyone freaked stock is at 60 cents.
This clown wrote the article,guessing they will be took over.
Me however would wait until the Christmas Quarterlies come out in Feb.
I think St.Row and WWE did good enough to surprise everyone.
But THQ's statement makes sense regarding this as they are now only going to make the games they do well.

I started playing 40k because of dawn of war.

Actually, I remember when I started reading this forum there was much talk about DoW and how it got people into it.

RatBot wrote:

Lorek wrote:

Sucks for everyone waiting for the 40K MMO, but I think it's good for the hobby in the long run; gamers will spend more time at the table and less at the PC.

I've never heard of anyone spending less time playing 40K because of Dawn of War/Space Marine, and conversely, I've never met anyone who picked up the tabletop game because of the video games.

For what it's worth I have, the group I played with in Beijing all got into it thanks to Dawn of War.

Dawn of War 1 rekindled 40k for me.
I was into it back in RT days but back then it was just this wierd UK game with really cool pics in the rulebook.
Dawn of War got me to start reading the novels again,now I am bitching because I have 10 Leman Russes and no accessory sprues.

I dont buy it, the statement from THQ looks pretty genuine.


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I also started playing 40k because of dawn of war. Admittedly the original.

Ouze wrote:

RatBot wrote:conversely, I've never met anyone who picked up the tabletop game because of the video games.

I picked up the tabletop game after playing Dawn of War.

me and my two brothers and 4 friends did!

English Assassin wrote:Bah, there goes my excuse for quitting EVE. Now how am I going to avoid spending the next few months shooting structures?

xcasex wrote:Back to EVE it is. /Istvaan

Stoffer wrote:Good

Ah well, see you all in Branch.

Just dropping into this thread to say that while I started playing years and years ago DoW took me out of remission and back into full-blown 40k-holism.

Well I hope it's not cancelled. Ross Watson, of Fantasy Flight Games and 40k RPG fame just went to go work on it...

Ha ha, all right, I completely concede the point. To be fair, I said I had never met anyone who started cuz of DoW, never said no one did.


Now, can anyone refute my refutation of the statement that people will play the tabletop game less if the MMO is available, based on people voluntarily giving up the tabletop game for DoW? (or don't, I really don't care. )