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Reply To: If you were in charge of GW now

February 13, 2019 at 11:52 pm #1348475

limburger

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@skodamarine : it’s not hard to see why they don’t publish a mass combat variant : the customer base isn’t there

The ‘hot’ thing in wargaming is skirmish style.
Everyone is doing it.
We’ve seen Erehwon specifically designed to be warband size, which is somewhat similar in army size as AoS.
Why do something that practically no one is doing when you can go where the money really is like everyone else?

GW is a business. They’re not here to create a hobby that you want, unless there is profit to be had.
You can see it in their marketing.

It is so much easier to sell a dozen skirmish battle sized factions than it is to sell that same amount of figures to one customer.
Especially in a market where you’re competing with quick fix enterntainment such as videogames and card games.

They even have the games to support such small sized forces. Both Killteam to Underworld function as gateway games to their bigger brothers as well as systems that stand on their own.
Even Adeptus Titanicus is styled as a skirmish style game as opposed to something that could go ‘epic’