THQ has announced that it is dropping the Warhammer 40 k MMO elements of her next title, Dark Millennium Online, Game Informer reports. About five years ago, the then-Warhammer 40,000 Online action MMO that was meant as a Vigil Games Darksiders II announced by developers. However, citing "changing market dynamics and the additional investment required to complete the game as an MMO," CEO Brian Farrell today announced the company would be the title focus shifting to "a premium experience with single and multiplayer gameplay." Oh, and canning 118 employees who worked on the title.
The Warhammer 40 K MMO "is going to be a masterpiece," Danny Bilson of THQ promised back in 2010, says the game would be a success if only (ahem) 1,000,000 WoW players made the leap to Dark Millennium. However, a string of accidents such as Red Faction: Armageddon and the company's fortunes sink, and saw uDraw 2012 began with a grim rumor: THQ for sale. The company responded with layoffs and peppy press statements, admission of a project of Dark Millennium the size would likely require outside help to complete.
When a further dire rumor (THQ explains 170 +) was confirmed, making it with the news that tech that VP Mark DeLoura was one of the last round of admitted that some 240 victims, THQ March dismissed by would announce. With the company online and MMO infrastructure is under the supervision of the departing DeLoura, more and more unlikely that a project of the size and shape of Dark Millennium would see completion, and the news today confirms that seemed. The game of the reorientation resources that THQ has dismissed 79 full-time employees and another 39 at Vigil Relic Entertainment.
"We believe strongly in the high quality and great creative work that is in production [on Dark Millennium]," Farrell said today: "this is the right decision for both our portfolio and dedicated to this powerful feature for gamers." Games Workshop Warhammer 40 licenses head Jon Gillard said the owner k "really" was excited about the new direction of the game. Platform and release details will be forthcoming later, THQ promises.
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