Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8881468-20150204091114/@comment-24944355-20150213224313

What makes you think GW won't shake things up big time? Because they already have in Warhammer Original, killing off many of their biggest Charactors, destroying entire nations & utterly changing the entire dynamic of the story.

If GW is willing to do that to Original what makes you think they won't do the same to 40k? Granted 40k is more popular than original but that doesn't mean that some radical change won't happen. Given that the stagnation of the story is just about the biggest complaint fans have of 40k we can state with a affair amount of confidence that some big changes are on the way. GW is a corporation & like all such entities they are most interested in the bottom line & their profits have been fading for years now, which is why the underperforming Warhammer Original has been shaken up so completely. 40k is a much stronger product but it has been the focus on the Horus Heresy that has kept it's profits up rather than the base timeline which as stated has been stagnating. With the end of the Horus Heresy coming closer GW will need to ring some major changes in the main story so as to keep the money rolling in.

Major changes are coming to 40k with the end times event which is rumored to begin in 2016. The debate shouldn't be IF changes are going to occur but rather WHAT changes there are going to be. In my view just bringing the Emperor back as his old pre heresy self won't change things much at all because even as powerful as he was the Emperor would only be one individual & couldn't be everywhere he would need to be to change the empires situation. On the other hand the Emperor just dying would be the worst of all worlds & pretty much kill the game. But the Emperor becoming a warp god in full, able to curb the chaos gods at the source, would change up the game big time while still giving humanity a fighting chance of survival. After all while humanity has many enemies those enemies all hate each other as well. SO you would have Orcs, Necrons, Eldar, Tyranids Tau etc all fighting each other as well as the various human polities that would evolve from a collapsed empire of man.