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Warhammer Online Canned News
Chris Leyton
21/06/2004
Games Workshop confirms that development has ceased on the ambitious MMORPG…
Word has today reached us suggesting that development on Warhammer Online has stopped, after a decision from both Games Workshop and Climax to cancel the title.
At the time of writing no official statement has yet been released from the publisher SEGA Europe, however a forum thread from Robin Dews General Manager confirmed the news:
It is with a great deal of sadness that I have to inform the community that we have decided to discontinue the development of Warhammer Online and will be closing down this website with immediate effect.
This has been a difficult and painful decision but it was taken following a following a full review of the progress of the game, costs to date and future costs of the project. As a result both Games Workshop and Climax Development Limited, the computer games developer, have agreed to terminate the development project.
I would like to say a personal thanks to all of the people who have followed our development over the last few years, your constant support and enthusiasm has meant a great deal to us.
Robin Dews
The news certainly comes as a disappointment to Games Workshop fans, who having watched development during the last couple of years feel slightly dejected by the lack of specific information. Stranger still is the fact that the game surfaced at SEGAâs E3 booth only a month ago, where the developers showed no signs of cancelling the project.
TVG was fortunate to cover the development of Warhammer Online in great detail with the team, we urge any fans to check out our previous coverage of the game to get an insight of what may have been.
Weâll have more on the situation soon.
