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rickabod41 3 weeks, 3 days ago.
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Actually, GW has one glaring weakness that all of you I have so far read are ignoring, and that is the fact they are on the stock market. While this is also arguably their greatest strength since its the only reason why they are everywhere, etc. (everywhere miniature wargaming stuff is sold in big way anyways lol) it also means if someone, or someones, with the money thinks GW should go away, then GW will go away with gusto.
They are a prime target for removal or purchase by other entertainment groups that may have an interest in exploiting our tiny market simply because it growing from the number folk trying to avoid the culture wars (for example Disney could buy them out just to shut their doors and establish some war game franchise of their own, or keep GW but accidentally kill all the franchises the same way they did with Starwars).
I think its only a matter of time before someone who can remove them from play will do so or they lose franchise power by being bought out by the wrong mega corp.
Beyond that the lore they have been selling since forever alone is frankly offensive to everyone in the room on both sides of the culture wars and not in particularly funny forgivable way, plus they have constantly gone with the ethically questionable marketing tactic of targeting children with a mature themed franchise (if we are being honest based on actions alone they are the table top game company your Boomer grandparents should have protested against in the Satanic Panic, not TSR). We can’t say they have a lot friends in either camp and given Budweiser, Target, Twitter and Disney were not immune to crusades, its doubtful GW is even with “Papa Blackrock” backing them and you guys still buying their crack. Frankly it more than possible that a “Musk” might show up and either buy them out or starts a new brand that changes everything in the hobby simply because they think it needs to be done and guys they are probably right.
Edit: Also guys I have said this before but your all overestimating GW’s influence like people raised by a cult, I think CATAN is a more common denominator among general table top gamers than anything GW has ever had out. The only place GW really dominants is the miniature wargaming market basically because of stock funded ads and marketing, they have a sorta of a third or fourth tier presence at best in most of the other TT niches which are all bigger markets by the way, maybe lower second tier in TTRPGs in a real slow decade. And I don’t say this as some noob, I was raised in a geeky family and back when I was a kid in the 90’s and early 2000’s, it was all D&D, MTG, and Japanese trading cards in the USA, you had to seek out GW stuff to find GW stuff and still kinda of do here the states.
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This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by
bvandewalker.
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This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by bvandewalker.
Believe it or not, many people enjoy the Star Wars work of Lucas, and Disney!
”nothing they released” is just a blanket statement of cynicism. Do better.
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This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by
grantinvanman.
Agreed with your ranking.
I would say first 20 mins of Jedi are decent then it just descends into cuddly toys fighting off trained clone troopers with sticks….
yeah people Disney hasn’t ruined anything! It’s actually made more of the thing you claim to love, but you aren’t happy!
I think a lot of geeks / nerds / fanboys of any genre wouldn’t be happy if you gave them a gold bar – they would complain it was only 18 ct.
The child in me still gets excited by the merest thought that I got to see a live action M.O.D.O.K and a live action Morbius- were they how I wanted them? where they any good? NO! But you know what, 8 year old me did a cartwheel when I saw that stuff on screen!
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This reply was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by rickabod41.
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