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Reply To: My 40k Story (and why I loathe GW.)

August 14, 2023 at 10:00 pm #1832955

admiralandy

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Hi Amachan,

Firstly when its been a big love of your life even though it was entirely yours, there’s an almost relationship ex-effect. Some folks are much more vitrolic about there former abusive GW partner.

Secondly, GW are trying to act like microsoft and the corporate dream, how can I sell you something making a nice profit, and then do it again. Which in the long run hits there player retention. They might have been able to get away with 15 years ago, when it was like a dozen books over 4 years, folks didn’t notice so much. But since they ramped it up to an industrial scale it does lose them players.

They only card they’ve got is nostalgia, there’s more talk about the old systems coming back Epic Horus v Age of Darkness, Warhammer v AoS. But there’s only so much to re-release and if the new version is crap is going to hinder them and not help. There’s a very Oldhammer movement too.

15 years ago they could have gotten away with it as the main game in town. But now, there’s the Perrys, Warlord, Wargame Atlantic, Northstar Minis with Stargrave, Frotgrave and Oathmark, Conquest Games, Gripping Beast, the Osprey Wargames and TooFatLardies.

Many of those are better games, metal and plastic mini makers etc, etc, and thats a far from exhaustive list of popular games or metal or plastic mini ranges, and not even mentioning Disney based games.

I wonder if in a few decades time we will talk about GW the way we talk about some Mini producers from the 70s…