When all four versions of the original Dawn of War are added together, the average number of concurrent players over the past month is 870. Then there's case of Soulstorm, the 2008 standalone third expansion for the original Dawn of War, which by itself has 541 concurrent players. To put that in context, the 100th most active game on Steam, Space Engineers, had an average of 2,199 players over the past 48 hours. Steamcharts, which uses Valve’s own APIs to measure the concurrent players in every game sold via Steam, reports that, over the past 30 days, Dawn of War III had an active average player count of 403 at any one time. The current situation for Dawn of War 3 certainly doesn't look good. Project lead Phillipe Boulle told PC Gamer last March that 'we'll see an expansion of some sort' for DOW3, and that the DOW1/2 trend of expansions which added new factions and campaigns was 'definitely something we're going to revisit.' The Necrons were teased for DOW3 in a post-credits sequence, but it seems the space-ghouls will not now join the fray. We’re working in close partnership with SEGA and Games Workshop to determine the best course of action, while shifting focus to other projects within our portfolio.

With Dawn of War III, we simply don’t have the foundation we need to produce major content. When a game underperforms, plans need to change. It’s been tough for us as professionals who want to make great games for our players, and for us as people who care a lot about what we do.

'While Dawn of War III has a dedicated player base, it didn’t hit the targets we were expecting at launch, and it hasn’t performed the way we had hoped since. Relic sent us this statement in response to our questions about the game's future: The Games Workshop-themed strategy game was met with a divisive response due to its abandonment of real-time strategy mainstays in favour of more of a hero unit approach, in addition to an overly-formulaic singleplayer campaign.ĭOW's active players have slumped in the ten months since release - to the point that there were, over the past 30 days, twice as many people playing the original, 2004 Dawn of War and its expansions as there were last Spring's Dawn of War III. There will be no 'major' expansion content for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III and the studio has turned to other projects, Relic confirmed to us today, despite intentions to the contrary discussed last year.

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