Warhammer Online cancelled.

[Devilbod]

British tabletop gaming firm Games Workshop has cancelled work on Warhammer Online, the massively multiplayer game which was being developed by Climax based on its best-known role-playing property.

In a terse statement issued to the financial markets today, Games Workshop said that "this decision was taken following a full review of the progress, costs to date and future costs of the project."

The game was being created as a co-development between Games Workshop and Climax, and both firms have apparently agreed to the termination of the project. It was due to be published worldwide by Sega.

It's not clear what factors caused the development of the title - which was significantly advanced - to be halted, although competition in the massively multiplayer market is certainly tougher now than it was two years ago when the project was started.

poo.

[Noxis]

damn

Although it should have been Warhammer 40k Online

[[GSV]Trig]

40k Online would be kewl, I think its about time they redid Space Hulk tho with the nice new engies and AI that we have these days tho...

[Noxis]

Yea MMOFPS similar to Planetside but is Warhammer 40k and you command squads rather than an one guy pwnage.

[Nox]

cancelled? hmmm, nah - you want to check out some rumours mate

Nox

[Firebar]

This was announced quite some time ago, a couple of months infact.

[wilsonian]

damnit!

i wana drive a land raider!

ah well at least my brand new copy of Dawn of war is winging it's way to me!

[Firebar]

i wana drive a land raider!

It was warhammer online, as in not the 40k universe. You never know, after the success of DoW, someone might have an idea...

[klarrix]

Thread necromancy:
You guys will like this


Just as I get back into Dawn of War, this comes up!


[Edit]
Crap. On a closer read, it seems like they've decided to go with the non-40k (i.e. medieval) storyline so there's a fair chance that this is gonna be another Everquest clone

[menthel]

Woo! I would like to play that one! Old Skool man.