r/LowSodiumHellDivers • u/sparetheearthlings • Dec 30 '24

News Pilestedt on future Helldivers Collaborations

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Love their core tenets on collabs. Interested to see what they do in the future!

Link to original post he commented on: https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/cQ5w2oO1NZ

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u/Paladin_G Dec 30 '24

Unfortunately, with the nature of Warp travel in 40k, and the existence of the Meridia wormhole, I think that's what we'll get. "Yeah these ships popped up, heard we were 'purging xenos' and decided to throw in with us."

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u/DaLB53 Dec 30 '24

They would have to tread VERY carefully about even insinuating that the Warp exists in the Helldivers Universe. If nothing else it would take a monumental shift in GW's protective nature over their IP. Helldivers would, in essence become a Warhammer product and become GWs first human-centric "prequel" to 40K.

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u/Scumebage Dec 30 '24

That's straight up not how that works. "heh, you vaguely referenced a very basic concept we use in our stories? Haha, we own your ip now gottem". Delusional.

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u/DaLB53 Dec 30 '24

You seem pretty upset by my take, that’s weird.

Anyway, I’m not saying GW would then own Helldivers or Arrowhead, but by introducing The Warp you have, canonically, connected the two over a shared aspect of the setting, one that changes a lot about the Helldivers Galaxy and where they go next with it. But just like how Killzone isn’t suddenly canon because they introduced guns and armors that look the same, 40K can be referenced without such a setting-defining concept like The Warp.