Why people with advanced cancer go through chemo, despite its terrible side effects? Just to win a few more months, years sometimes.

Same here. Delay the inevitable and die standing, not groveling.

if the game is popular enough, maybe we un-end the world through popular demand?

Originally posted by Kreu:

I don't really know the Warhammer universe. But as far as i understand, the world is going to end. So what are we fighting for in the game, if we can't change it anyway?

because GW cannot wait to publish age of S H I T M A R

People in the warhammer world don't know, that the everything is going to ♥♥♥♥ for real now, so they fight to get rid of the skaven.
The warhammer world is a ♥♥♥♥♥ place to live in at the best of times, so it's basicly just another frikkin invasion of the lastest horror, that chaos spit out this week.

We're fighting to continue the story of AGE OF SMEG- I MEAN SIGMAR!

no, we're fighting to avert that exact thing.