@robert <70 points>

10 points for the pledge. I like the scheme on your dwarves, will be great to see them finished.

That’s one hot shed. You could consider making extra money by smoking meats in it or something?

Would be cool to see the dice bag.

(1)  Is Social Media with hobbying replacing forums? Are forums slowing down and becoming less convenient then a Facebook group?

They  might provide the same function and definition, but are different enough. Like ‘is a jaffa cake a cake or biscuit’ kind of thing.

Oddly enough, reddit is way bigger than facebook in Japan. Random.

Valid points, 20 points.

(2) Are websites going the way of the Dinosaur? Will search engines and browsers be replaced by social media? I’ll make this a less tenuous link to our hobby. GW have their own store, and facebook pages for their games. On youtube they have Warhammer TV. Is their own Citadel Painting website which is upcoming necessary in this context? Should they keep doing Warhammer TV? Or is this a shameless ploy to move away from one platform to their own for money and control? If it is, is it a bad thing?

Extinction is indeed what I meant by way of the Dinosaur. So we can agree Kentucky Fried Tyranosaurus would be delicious? With Velociraptor gravy on the side and Pterodactyl Fries?

I think things will go the way of ghost in the shell with people having a usb port or similar in the back of their heads for direct link up, generally speaking.

As for the point on GW, very true. They are making good decisions, using communication and technology when they were more isolationist. True with Duncan and to a lesser extent Peachy. It gives a relatively faceless, static company a verbal human component. Helps he seems to be a likeable guy.

Valid point with the website and non-GW folks. I did not think about it. After posting this thread and before this reply I saw a Gundam painted to a high standard on one of the Facebook Warhammer painting groups so swings and roundabouts. It was not a statement, but a question to see if people felt that it was an agreeable term or not, not a personal opinion, and see if people agreed with the sentiment of that statement. For instance, if it was hyphotetically part of a larger plan to completely move away from social media and get people coming to their own sites which they had complete absolute control of over time. Or not, who knows?

Making money and profit is not morally wrong, but that goes down the rabbit whole of ‘do companies exploit their customers’, ‘do companies treat their staff badly’, so on and so forth.

20 points.

(3) I know photos, articles and other information trickles out at conventions and events for our precious games, but should there be more social media reveals and information? Would it be a better, more modernised and appealing way to broadcast this information, like a Nintendo Direct or E3 where it is also filmed and sent out? Since announcements are done at presentations anyway would it hurt to film and post it?

I’m not a fan of mantic and don’t follow their stuff. I did not mention websites, but vidoes on social media and beyond (so less twitter, more youtube <back to jaffa cakes, is it an app, social media or website> or facebook): live streams with a video, like E3, a presentation or Nintendo direct – a live video and recording of said seminar. Not posts, pictures or articles. I did not say launch either, I said information being released and announced (previews – most of these vents advertise stuff that is upcoming and not due for release too soon or on the day). Building on top of what is already there. That’s all semantics I guess too, though.

Lets say that you were in charge of a company, how would you go about it? Lets say, a smaller company? Just curious as to the answer.

Valid points, 20 points.