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.
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.