Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150628150826/@comment-6078851-20150701142803

the point i was making though is that the story could end with the end times without the game suffering or needing any starting over - the fantasy game is (apparently) dead and the age of sigmar isn't a re-boot but a new game (seemingly based on 40k's system). as i was pointing out all the games set in 40k would still be the same even if the apocalypse occured, and as has also been mentioned 40k is more popular than fantasy so no tabletop re-boot is needed.

the story is a different matter though: there's a multitude of possible scenarios for the 42nd millenium and beyond, and it's an absolute certainty that not a single one will please everyone :)  however, all truly great stories have a beginning, a middle, and most importantly an end, and if the end times turns out to be the end of most (if not all) life within the milky way then that would be a fitting end to the grim darkness. while there's a few scenarios i would like to see occur beyond the 41st, i would like to see the story actually end at some point - time and again we've all seen great stories become mediocre (and sometimes even sucky) because they just keep dragging on, going nowhere or going backwards, but continually making money and continually dragging on - gw is a fairly good example of just this: for over 20 years, besides filling in a lot of backstory, the story has went literally nowhere, which is why it has become so stale and why it's not a truly great story anymore, and a scenario where the imperium becomes what it once was wont be the story going forward but backward. don't get me wrong, i'd also love to see returning primarchs, see what happens to emps etc, but i don't want to see such things be the method gw use to start recycling old story material, and if primarchs return to stay then recycling old material is exactly what will happen: recycling old story will turn this once truly great, now only great but still cool, story into a mediocre story at best, and a sucky one at worst that just wont end :(

if it wants to be a truly great story again then it will have to end sometime.