Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150628150826/@comment-6078851-20150707145427

well, they did and didn't kill off fantasy: the story has ended (and the world along with it), and the tabletop game of old will no longer be catered for (models might be but not rules or army boks) - so they have seemingly killed the game. the age of sigmar isn't really a re-boot of the fantasy game but rather a new heroquest/talisman type game (at least that's what it sounds like).

while somewhat interesting i can't say i like the idea of a time-travelling someone re-writing history, that's way too much nerfing for anyone to be happy with. but i totally agree that there's plenty of scope for new material post-emps, but in a thousand, 5 thousand, or 10,000 years time it should still end in a logical, and '40k thematic' apocaplypse, which is why my personal hope occured over the next thousand years, to allow plenty of time for the awesome stuff to happen - even if the end times do end 40k's story it could still take thousands of years.

ending the story wouldn't be killing off 40k (considering the pesent-story has essentially been dead up until very recently), it would simply be ending the story. all gw have done for a long time has been filling in backstory, and even now they've barely filled in any of the last 10,000 years, so even after emps dies there is still a lifetime worth of work needed to fill in the rest of the backstory, and the 40k game wouldn't be going anywhere but up (unless gw continue to shaft fans with prices and such).

as always though this is all our speculation, conjecture, personal hopes and opinions, and in time (about a year) we'll all know one way or the other, but i have a question for everyone: regardless of the game or any financial or corporate interests about gw, do folks here want: A) 40k's story to stay where it is, unfinished? B) have it move on a little to fall back into a status quo? or C) actually move on significantly and have the story reach an ending (not necassarily a cataclysmic ending, but any ending [including even, god forbid, a happy ending :P] where gw say "the story's been told, there's nothing more to add... the end")?

obviously i'm all for c. with the story not moving there's no chance of disappointment, other than the disappointment of the story not moving, but with an ending there's a lot of chances of screwing it up, the matrix and sandworms of dune are good example of such :P, but i would still rather the story gets finished sometime.