Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide sales break the 300 thousand copy threshold
Swedish developer Fatshark celebrates the financial success achieved by Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide, a game now officially owned by more than 300 thousand gamers, and announces their first free DLC – Sigmar’s Blessing.
Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide, a co-op action game from the Swedish indie developer Fatshark (responsible for games like the pretty solid War of the Roses or the pretty bad Escape Dead Island) sold in more than 300 thousand copies during the first three weeks following its release. To celebrate the game’s success, the developers have announced that a free expansion pack will soon follow.
The expansion, titled Sigmar's Blessing, is expected to hit the shelves on the 3rd of December and will be available free of charge to every person owning a legitimate copy of Vermintide. Fatshark is planning to introduce some degree of control over what kind of loot the game sends our way, as well as an option to exchange some of it for an upgrade of our arsenal. The expansion will also include new character traits and weapons. The Swedish developer is already planning on another DLC (Martin Wahlun, the CEO at Fatshark, announced that subsequent expansions will include both paid and free content). Furthermore, the developers are working on an update, which will include features like private mode, for those of you who don’t like to share their Skaven, and survival mode, where the players will have to face increasingly overwhelming waves of opponents. When can we expect the novelties remains a mystery, however.
Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide debuted on the 23rd of October and won the acclaim from gamers and critics alike (average Metacritic score: 79/100), becoming a best-seller in the process – from the day of its release, Fatshark’s work is consistently included in the Top Ten Steam best-seller list. All thanks to the game’s brilliant, grim atmosphere and gameplay mechanics inspired by the successful Left 4 Dead series transplanted into the brutal world of Warhammer.
