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Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Flops, Frontier Shares Tank Nearly 20% - IGN

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2y ago

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin Flops, Frontier Shares Tank Nearly 20%

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add this to the list of games that flopped before I even knew they existed, You really do have to put down real money to market games if you want people to purchase them
Maybe we should have two ratings? Saying its a flop is vague, yes it mostly means it didn't sell, but why? In this case, I didn't even hear about it there are so many millions of games. But is it a good game regardless? Is it fun to play? These types of headlines don't really answer that and just push negative press.
- It reviewed pretty poorly, but that's no guarantee.
  I have to say, even with a good game it would suck to release something kinda niche this year, and the Warhammer brand means so little these days, games under that release through a firehose at this point, it's hard to know what's coming up, let alone if it's any good.
  
  Well with Warhammer games, its 90% RTS, 8% one-offs like Boltgun, and the other 2% is the Tide games. They don't like to take risks or move to far away from the table top and mostly leave that up to brave studios who get a license. The market is prime for a WH40K soulslike right now.
Seems like an 'ok' game and is generally liked by the community but therein lies the problem. Ok isn't good enough anymore and the community interested in a game like this is small and ever shrinking. This wasn't the game to explode and draw people to the genre so it was never going to meet corporate expectations. Shame because I quite like AoS and think it has a ton of potential as an IP
Eh...I'm not surpised. Age of Sigmar is Warhammer's dumb little brother. It's not a very interesting thing.
- Looking at the reviews on Steam, I don't think the setting was anywhere close to the largest problem.
- I thought the community had come around on it after some updates. I wouldn't know, I haven't been into TT Games Workshop stuff in ages.
  In any case, the core of the tabletop game has nothing to do with whether a game adaptation is good or not.
I regularly find games based on WHFB to be really cool. AoS on the other hand never interested me.
- Are there many still around these days? From the top of my head I only know of Vermintide and Total War: Warhammer.
  The latter was so good it is bringing back the Old World from GW!
  
  Yes, I love TWWH exactly for that, hate that the game is split into so many DLCs though.
I wish Frontier would focus on their own IP that's languished for years (Elite) instead of churning out mid games using licensed IP. Just.. make a game that's amazing and focus your efforts on it.
- "You won't be able to walk around your ship ~~at launch~~ EVER.
Lol sigmar nuts.
Good. Fuck GW. 🤢🖕🏽
- This was not made by GW
  
  It's owned by GW. Get your head on straight.

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