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I"m curious to see what they'll do, but I have my money on muck it up and wet themselves.

Pacific wrote:

Absolutionis wrote:Seems like a good time to release Codex: Black Templar around Spring 2012.

I agree, I think it would be wonderful if they used the material they are licensing out to try and draw more fresh blood into stores and into GW games. So far, there have been no efforts at all which I think has been a terrible waste.

First of all, the thought of a new Black Templar codex makes me very happy. I'd be running them now if they had updated rules.

Now, I admit it would be harder to do something like this for Warhammer - the Duels games were essentially the same as the tabletop version (minus the customization), so it essentially trained players for the "real" thing, and it'd be harder to distribute a promo mini. However there was definite potential for some kind of lead-in to lure players into their local GW stores. Personally playing Space Marine pushed me to leap into the real game, but I was already familiar with the universe & setting to begin with. How many people came to SM with a blank slate and came away thirsting to play the tabletop game?

Misspelled "too".

I think that you should be able to play as a space marine other than a black templar. That would kinda ruin the customization options of the game.

I'm hoping we'll get to have the option of female characters. I kinda have a thing for playing female characters, hence why all of my World of Warcraft characters are female, and my preferred WH40k army is Sisters of Battle.

hoogathy wrote:I'm a little surprised GW didn't do more to promote the concrete game when Space Marine came out. Allow me to use Magic: The Gathering as an example for a moment: when they released both of their Duels of the Planeswalkers games, they held promotions where players could redeem a code to receive a physical card - and good premium cards at that. There are players on the Pro Tour now that got into the physical game through these games, so it stands to reason that there's even more people who are just playing for fun because of the digital game. Sales for the game are up in recent years too, perhaps owing to the exposure of a multi-platform game.

Still running those promotions, incidentally. We get a few people every week who bring in their voucher to redeem a Grave Titan or similar.

If the game is multi-platform, I'd imagine that each format will use it's own servers and setup. Also, both Xbox 360 and PS3 support USB keyboards if you wanted to use them.

Apart from the trailer with the big 'ol Titan, I haven't seen much on this game. Interested to play though.

I think they should release it on one of the 2 systems, (preferably PC) and then at a later date release it on the other. Like they did with the Halo series.

MMOs don't exactly require precision aiming so I hardly think that cross-platform would hurt them much.

Unless the game is MMOFPS or something.