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Dark Nexus Video Game To Put The MOBA In Warhammer 40,000
February 25, 2015 by brennon
In case this title boggled your mind MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena and they're pretty popular right now. League of Legends, Dawn of the Ancients, SMITE and Heroes of the Storm are just four of them being played religiously. Well, Dark Nexus Arena is the new MOBA on the block and it has got a Warhammer 40,000 skin...
The idea behind the game is that the characters above have been captured by the Dark Eldar Wych Cult and have been forced to fight in some of their bloodstained arenas on the world of Commorragh. I suppose that's justification enough to have these races all fighting against and with each other right?
Effectively it doesn't overly matter if the justification for any of this is sound if the game is good. If they can get the mechanics and the business model right then they could be on to a good thing. Make the game free to play and then have heroes, skins, and other cosmetics as your payment option and you're sorted.
Above you can see the first of their payment options which already look eye weepingly insane. One site pointed out that though they say they're Warhammer 40,000 mega fans they seem to have demoted Ghazghkull to a Meganob. I don't think he'd be best pleased. It's a bit much to ask for payments this early considering we've seen one teaser.
Hopefully it will do something different making it worth the play time!
"...Dark Nexus Arena is the new MOBA on the block and it has got a Warhammer 40,000 skin..."
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Those first payment options are noted on the website as “limited edition game bundles”, so I assume that doesn’t mean that they represent the cost for the actual micro-transactions (seeing at they’re not very “micro”).
But the costs for these are still ridiculously overpriced. You could buy several games for the price of those packs, so who’d be stupid enough to pay for them?
Maybe the actual cost of the in-game add-ons can be find out on their forums.
The entire MOBA train has long left the station … five or more years ago this would have been a great idea … now?? Seriously?? Why?? Ugh … more out of touch junk … par for the course I guess.
Sure there are huge numbers of people still playing these sorts of games … BUT … they are playing LoL, etc. due to massive numbers of players, big prize pools and at least in the case of LoL it is because they have these older accounts that they have in many cases made big monitary and time investments. World of Warcraft is like that as well.
That does not translate well for a new game entering the market. This is not going to catch on in a big way. Hardcore GW fans might get suckered in initially, but as with most GW games, it is a flash in the pan. I’ve loved many of the old GW titles from Shadow of the Horned Rat, to the first few Dawn of War RTS games, Space Hulk, Space Marine, etc. but they have all been a quick play through and uninstall kinda games. Always had their share of problems and never had large sustainable communities around them. I don’t see this as being anything any different and since it is a micro transaction game, there is very little incentive for me to ever play … as I don’t play to waste hundreds of hours on a game like this. I’d love to see more RTS, FPS and RPG … this kind of game … I don’t even understand why any companies want to make these games for GW … they just don’t fit with the customer base. The battle chess garbage, etc. … I have yet to meet a GW fan who really wants to play these kinds of games.
If you want to say the MOBA train has left the station and bet against Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm gaining a big following, you’re a braver person than I.
Not every MMO needs to be as successful as WoW and not every MOBA needs to be as successful as LoL.The 40k IP is attractive to a lot of people, and there’s no reason to believe a 40k MOBA done right could not gain a decent enough following.
With regards to GW’s strategy of letting anyone / everyone make a computer game with one of their IP’s, I guess they’re hoping that some of them just stick.
Dawn of War / Space Marine / Bloodbowl were all enjoyable, while Mordheim (hopefully if this is successful, we’ll get a Necromunda game) and Battlefleet Gothic might live on as computer games. We’re also getting a Total War Fantasy at some point aren’t we?
That will put fear in DOTA2 and the rest no doubt. Jumping on a bandwagon is fine, jumping on a bandwagon that requires insane devotion and play-time to get gud seems like asking to be the next “wow-killer”, aka a game dead on release.
What I don’t get is why I’d want to play as a grunt. Why are they not giving us named characters to play as, 40k isn’t short of them, I’d love to play as a Solitare or Shadowseer(not quite ‘named). Unless I missed it and they are.
and I thought world of tanks was pricey!
So I guess IP being jealously guarded is a thing of the past. What’s next skarsnik’s mushroom crush?
I’ve heard a “Love can Bloom” dating sim is on the way.