Did the WH40k MMORPG turn into Darktide?

[Lqdtech]

I remember them trying to make an MMORPG and i believe it was converted into Darktide.. Can anyone confirm that? If that is the case I understand then why the game is the way it is. They probably just took V2 and copied over what they made for the MMORPG to make as much money as they could as quickly.

[Calv]

No.

[Lqdtech]

Originally posted by Calv:

No.

You are correct I looked it up.

[Forblaze]

I dont really see what they would have copied over.

[KiT2142]

The only 40k MMO I can remember is Dark Millennium which was never released. And it was pretty much WoW clone

[76561197988918266]

eternal crusade has been dead for a while

[Silhouette]

Yeah, there was an old game called Eternal Crusade which I think was going to be an MMO of sorts.

Sadly, it never really went anywhere.

Then there was Dark Millennium, but no version of that game was ever released.

To the best of my knowledge, Darktide was always intended to be a co-op shooter similar to Left 4 Dead and Vermintide.

[WhiteWolf762]

Warhammer Online was the only true MMO, and it died in 2012. There's a private server running it called Age of Reckoning, but it has a few hundred active on it.

[Clarkeh]

Originally posted by Lqdtech:

I remember them trying to make an MMORPG and i believe it was converted into Darktide.. Can anyone confirm that? If that is the case I understand then why the game is the way it is. They probably just took V2 and copied over what they made for the MMORPG to make as much money as they could as quickly.

Dark Millennium (the w40k mmo) got chopped up and changed into Eternal Crusade (crap lobby shooter) which promptly crashed and burned.

[Niju]

W40K MMO... lmao.
What'll that be about, when every quest starts with "Kill X amount of heretics".

[KiT2142]

Originally posted by 猫又:

W40K MMO... lmao.
What'll that be about, when every quest starts with "Kill X amount of heretics".

Trailer looked fun back in the day tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0EJdhR43Q

[Niju]

Originally posted by KiT2142:

Originally posted by 猫又:

W40K MMO... lmao.
What'll that be about, when every quest starts with "Kill X amount of heretics".

Trailer looked fun back in the day tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0EJdhR43Q

THQ. Well, now it makes sense why it was canceled.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by 猫又:

W40K MMO... lmao.
What'll that be about, when every quest starts with "Kill X amount of heretics".

Both Dark Millenium as Eternal Crusade were sold on "its Wh40k Planetside".

But there is a reason we only have one Planetside and even tho EA wants Battlefield to be like Planetside they had to reduce the multiplayer numbers from once 64v64 to, whats it these days? 16v16? A farcry from the 100v100v100 of Planetside 2.

The reason is simple: Planetside 1 was developed by a company that did Everquest and other MMOs. PS1 was pretty much an MMO where weapons worked like "cone" spells in fantasy MMOs and PS2 still got developed with an MMO netcode.

Eternal Crusade and Dark Millenium both thought they could start with Arenas and then expand. This obviously will never work and you don't make an MMO on a 3 year time table with 0 experience.

[JSM93]

Unfortunately the game you're thinking about became Eternal Crusade.