Maybe, but it could be suicidal for the franchise. For as much as progs scream and piss about the Imperium, not only is more popular than all other factions in 40k combined, but the entire universe is built to justify its brutality so that it doesn't become a parody of itself.
Progs have been occupying the 40k hobby for years, but their attempts at subversion have always been weak. The problem for them is that the themes of 40k are reactionary at their core, so it's difficult for progs to get their proboscises in when the entire franchise is corrosive to them.
This article is a good example. It's just grasping wildly at straws. Look at their "popular channels." They're tiny by 40k standards. It's pathetic.
It would absolutely be suicidal for the franchise. They're already on thin ice as it is, their last financial report was pretty damning if you get a chance to read it. Their streaming service flopped on itself and it seems like even the scalpers have backed away considering you can buy brand new product at fire sale prices because of how induated they've made the market. That's not even touching the elephant in the room which is 3d printing and that's getting cheaper and more user friendly by the day.
Their core audience is males with a high disposable discretionary income, so if you alienate that you're going out of business. You can't just blue ocean stragety your way out of that, like you will never get women or these progressives to buy $60 models and have them sit down and paint them for hours, and then play an autistic wargame that goes on for at least three hours at the lower point values.
If it is suicide for the franchise... oh well. 40k itself is a franchise built on a setting, lore and goodwill of people who haven't worked for Games Workshop for decades. The company is one of the most dysfunctional IP holders in gaming today.
If they die at least there's a chance the IP would get bought by a company that pretends to give a damn.
If they die at least there's a chance the IP would get bought by a company that pretends to give a damn.
In all likelihood it'd be Hasbro. We've seen how they've handled D&D and MTG, making piecemeal changes here and there in a futile effort to appease clown-haired cunts. If they got full ownership of Warhammer they'd have to do a hard reboot of the whole thing.
Hasbro might buy it. Might. They're not having a good year, and they've been burned on a lot of acquisitions before. They're even pushing to integrate DnD into an always online paid subscription for goodness sakes, that's how desperate they are for revenue.
As for Magic, the less said the better. The game never recovered from the whole "whoops turns out our tournament judges are heavily staffed with felony sex criminals" thing.
40k itself is a franchise built on a setting, lore and goodwill of people who haven't worked for Games Workshop for decades.
Ain't that the truth. I got out when the awesome eldritch horror got turned into Space Egyptians because I could tell then that things were pivoting in a shitty direction and everything I've seen when I've checked back since has vindicated my choice.
Maybe, but it could be suicidal for the franchise. For as much as progs scream and piss about the Imperium, not only is more popular than all other factions in 40k combined, but the entire universe is built to justify its brutality so that it doesn't become a parody of itself.
Progs have been occupying the 40k hobby for years, but their attempts at subversion have always been weak. The problem for them is that the themes of 40k are reactionary at their core, so it's difficult for progs to get their proboscises in when the entire franchise is corrosive to them.
This article is a good example. It's just grasping wildly at straws. Look at their "popular channels." They're tiny by 40k standards. It's pathetic.
It would absolutely be suicidal for the franchise. They're already on thin ice as it is, their last financial report was pretty damning if you get a chance to read it. Their streaming service flopped on itself and it seems like even the scalpers have backed away considering you can buy brand new product at fire sale prices because of how induated they've made the market. That's not even touching the elephant in the room which is 3d printing and that's getting cheaper and more user friendly by the day.
Their core audience is males with a high disposable discretionary income, so if you alienate that you're going out of business. You can't just blue ocean stragety your way out of that, like you will never get women or these progressives to buy $60 models and have them sit down and paint them for hours, and then play an autistic wargame that goes on for at least three hours at the lower point values.
If it is suicide for the franchise... oh well. 40k itself is a franchise built on a setting, lore and goodwill of people who haven't worked for Games Workshop for decades. The company is one of the most dysfunctional IP holders in gaming today.
If they die at least there's a chance the IP would get bought by a company that pretends to give a damn.
In all likelihood it'd be Hasbro. We've seen how they've handled D&D and MTG, making piecemeal changes here and there in a futile effort to appease clown-haired cunts. If they got full ownership of Warhammer they'd have to do a hard reboot of the whole thing.
Hasbro might buy it. Might. They're not having a good year, and they've been burned on a lot of acquisitions before. They're even pushing to integrate DnD into an always online paid subscription for goodness sakes, that's how desperate they are for revenue.
As for Magic, the less said the better. The game never recovered from the whole "whoops turns out our tournament judges are heavily staffed with felony sex criminals" thing.
Ain't that the truth. I got out when the awesome eldritch horror got turned into Space Egyptians because I could tell then that things were pivoting in a shitty direction and everything I've seen when I've checked back since has vindicated my choice.
I got out in 4th edition, after Gav Thorpe ass fucked the codex balance so badly. The game's army roster variety never recovered.