Call me a Pessimist Pete, but I think this attack vector might actually be the one that allows them to do meaningful damage. We've seen GW come out and make statements on issues they didn't need to. We've seen how widespread and deep the Facism freakout has been over the last few years.
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.
Call me a Pessimist Pete, but I think this attack vector might actually be the one that allows them to do meaningful damage. We've seen GW come out and make statements on issues they didn't need to. We've seen how widespread and deep the Facism freakout has been over the last few years.
Gatekeep or be Gatekept.
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.