Is it just me, or is everyone just jumping way to far ahead of themselves.

It never says they are bringing back Warhammer Fantasy Battles, they never call what they plan to do WFB.  The only refer to the old world over and over; the lore of the old world, the heroes of the old lore, and etc.  Then they flash some square bases, and everyone just forgets everything else.

They never say they are bringing WFB, because they aren’t.  WFB is dead and buried.   What ever they come up with, will never be WFB.  It will be simplified, it will streamlined.   Most importantly it will be aimed directly at selling new models, not your old collections.   GW doesn’t care about your old WFB armies in the slightest.

They will just do what they did with AoS.  Here are some shit army lists for your legacy armies, and they always will be shit.  Your old armies will be just fine, but these new models/units…  wow look just how much better they are in comparison.  Oh, yeah… what comparison,  they will just be obviously better by leaps and bounds.

Seriously, this all reminds me of an abusive relationship.

They treat the WFB community like it doesnt matter.   Bleed them for new sales and the promise of a new edition.  Big things are coming, just not for you.  They blow up everything you hold dear, tell you it doesnt matter and just expect you to be okay with it, cause hey you can still use your models.

When you get angry, or build up confidence to just say screw it and walk away.   They dangle out legacy army lists and tell you bases don’t matter.  You can play any way you want.    Always doing the bare minimum to keep people around one moment and then dropping negative slights  to keep you down the next.   Here is your legacy army lists,  with stupid insulting joke rules…. haha…  cause you are children after all.

You hear for years that the idea “rank and file” wargames are dead, and that they will never be back.  No one wants to play that kind of a game anymore.   AoS is the future, its perfect.   Just play AoS, its the big shiny.

Oh, look… other companies are making money on rank and file games.   WTF.   Cant have that, hey we got one of those…. in a few years… maybe three or four…. possibly, sorta maybe.   I mean look…  Sisters of Battle are back, after only what…  forever.  So there look,  Im still good for you… just stay.   Let me show you I can change.

Games Workshop has never, and will never, change.  This is all about potential sales.   Look at games they have brought back in the last year, was that for the gamers…. or was that to cash in on an insanely high secondary market demand.  It wasn’t for gamers.   They did it cause it brought money.

What else will be happening in three years.  Oh, yeah they will be easily out of old IPs to bring back for new sales.   AoS will be on its downward spiral, as people stop buying as much…  once an army gets so big most players move on.   Ever old IP they have brought back, will have gone stale by then.  Because none of them are all that deep.

That’s all this is, a potential grab in the future,  which I guarantee will not be what anyone wants it to be or expects it to be.

Just saying, GW hasn’t changed.