There is one drawbridge GW cannot drop, and that is the nature of the hobby itself.
Casual consoomer retards are not going put down $100+ for unassembled, unpainted plastic soldiers, only to then be told they need another $100 of paints, to then spend two months painting up an army, to learn 400 pages of rules, and then possibly wait another two months to get a decent game in.
Tabletop wargaming is NEVER going to attract any significant quantity of women/NPC's or anyone else that isn't deep, deep into delayed gratification.
It literally will not matter what GW do with the fluff. The hobby itself is kryptonite to the very people these fags fantasize about attracting to it.
That's not the one that concerns me. I don't care whether or not leftists engage with the hobby at the level of player and customer, I care whether they're the ones writing the books and making PR decisions. And even if they don't engage on that level, GW's already licensed out their IP for 40K Funko Pops, so extracting money from "casual consoomer retards" as a lifestyle brand clearly isn't beneath them.
Yeah but even if they burned the franchise down tomorrow there is still 35+ years of content out there they can't touch and that's just 40k and not even touching Warhammer Fantasy and Age of Sigmar. The amount of books, magazines, videogames, editions of the game, models is staggering. You could read a new book or play a new game every day and you'd probably die before you get to end of it.
The only reason I never got into Warhammer 40k is I don’t feel my painting skills are good enough. I love the lore but don’t want to drop the scratch on an army and fuck up the painting on it
I just started getting in a few months ago and I've been anxious about messing up my paint jobs. As long as you do some research on how to paint, I'm sure you'll do a good job. If anything, you can repaint them or strip the paint and start over.
I don't even know when I'll get to play with my models on the tabletop but just building and painting is already very enjoyable. I found that it's nice to have a hobby working with my hands and that isn't focused on looking at a screen.
Painting is not as hard as it looks, and even mediocre paint jobs will still look good in numbers.
If you're nervous about wrecking pricey models, you could try sourcing some of the old metal minis from the 80's and 90's - they're smaller, simpler, and crucially, made of metal, so you can dunk them in the nastiest paint stripper you can find as many times as you like and you won't melt them.
Step 0 of gatekeeping is to be the man holding the gate. I don't own the IP or the company, so I can't force GW not to drop the drawbridge.
There is one drawbridge GW cannot drop, and that is the nature of the hobby itself.
Casual consoomer retards are not going put down $100+ for unassembled, unpainted plastic soldiers, only to then be told they need another $100 of paints, to then spend two months painting up an army, to learn 400 pages of rules, and then possibly wait another two months to get a decent game in.
Tabletop wargaming is NEVER going to attract any significant quantity of women/NPC's or anyone else that isn't deep, deep into delayed gratification.
It literally will not matter what GW do with the fluff. The hobby itself is kryptonite to the very people these fags fantasize about attracting to it.
That's not the one that concerns me. I don't care whether or not leftists engage with the hobby at the level of player and customer, I care whether they're the ones writing the books and making PR decisions. And even if they don't engage on that level, GW's already licensed out their IP for 40K Funko Pops, so extracting money from "casual consoomer retards" as a lifestyle brand clearly isn't beneath them.
Yeah but even if they burned the franchise down tomorrow there is still 35+ years of content out there they can't touch and that's just 40k and not even touching Warhammer Fantasy and Age of Sigmar. The amount of books, magazines, videogames, editions of the game, models is staggering. You could read a new book or play a new game every day and you'd probably die before you get to end of it.
That will lead to the same problem that Total Warhammer had. The setting that people were invested in simply not being there anymore.
The only reason I never got into Warhammer 40k is I don’t feel my painting skills are good enough. I love the lore but don’t want to drop the scratch on an army and fuck up the painting on it
I just started getting in a few months ago and I've been anxious about messing up my paint jobs. As long as you do some research on how to paint, I'm sure you'll do a good job. If anything, you can repaint them or strip the paint and start over.
I don't even know when I'll get to play with my models on the tabletop but just building and painting is already very enjoyable. I found that it's nice to have a hobby working with my hands and that isn't focused on looking at a screen.
Painting is not as hard as it looks, and even mediocre paint jobs will still look good in numbers.
If you're nervous about wrecking pricey models, you could try sourcing some of the old metal minis from the 80's and 90's - they're smaller, simpler, and crucially, made of metal, so you can dunk them in the nastiest paint stripper you can find as many times as you like and you won't melt them.