40K at least has the benefit that it's gatekept through its cost in both time and money. You'll never get these people who literally can barely afford the cat food for all their cats to drop 1000s of dollars on paint, models, codexes, terrain, boards, etc. Like even if you drop all that money you still have to sit there and individually paint every model even before playing a game. GW will always GW but they're not stupid enough to chase after those people.
It is a good natural barrier. Like comic books had. Only the hardcore fans were buying all of the variants and special editions. It's just eventually an ideologue will get ahold of their social media, or their HR gets overrun, and all of a sudden the fans are toxic. They'll pander to the social media audience that doesn't buy product, and think because they get retweets and feel virtuous that it's worth it.
Slowly to exponentially accelerating they'll start fucking with the lore to get more and more clicks, while their audience quietly walks away from the hobby. Then some suit who wasn't paying attention lies to cover up poor quarterly numbers, and puts out a full media blast about 'We wont stand for hate!" As if that will convince lost customers into coming back and buying more Landraiders.
I don't think it will happen though, I mean they themselves will admit they are a model business, not a game one so I don't think they're stupid of enough to torch the only people buying said models. Sure they might try to pander but at the end of the day it's a niche hobby and it's just not conductive to people who are not buying shit.
You can see lately too they've cracked down on their social media and any really forward person has left or been pushed behind the scenes because they keep leaving and starting Youtube channels, podcasts or paint ranges with their own "brand". They don't want that or any "face" that can turn on them and or become an ideologue so I gotta give them credit for putting their foot down.
i for one dont like the dispreportionate ammount of power and influence human resources has from the start only person who should have firing power is managorial positions as they are also responsable for the payroll usually hr needs defanged and a counterballence installed to slow abuse. one i see that looks really juicy is management hiring investigative teams from outside the company that are not related or recomended by/to the hr team that respond to hrs notices from hrs budget note for simlicity sake i include their paychecks in that fund and if there is indeed actionable info from the investigative teams report the cost is refunded and the problem employee fired.
GW will always GW but they're not stupid enough to chase after those people.
It has actually been kind of shocking to witness. They have been getting hit with all of the usual request for "We want female Space Marines", and they have actually had the stones to tell those people "Just play Sisters of Battle, you dumb nerds! They are literally the same thing stat wise."
And most of their lore has continued to be interesting without even trying to shy away from the grimdark elements of the older lore, except for a handful of situations where they went "Ok, maybe the Daemonculaba was a bit too far."
40K at least has the benefit that it's gatekept through its cost in both time and money. You'll never get these people who literally can barely afford the cat food for all their cats to drop 1000s of dollars on paint, models, codexes, terrain, boards, etc. Like even if you drop all that money you still have to sit there and individually paint every model even before playing a game. GW will always GW but they're not stupid enough to chase after those people.
It is a good natural barrier. Like comic books had. Only the hardcore fans were buying all of the variants and special editions. It's just eventually an ideologue will get ahold of their social media, or their HR gets overrun, and all of a sudden the fans are toxic. They'll pander to the social media audience that doesn't buy product, and think because they get retweets and feel virtuous that it's worth it.
Slowly to exponentially accelerating they'll start fucking with the lore to get more and more clicks, while their audience quietly walks away from the hobby. Then some suit who wasn't paying attention lies to cover up poor quarterly numbers, and puts out a full media blast about 'We wont stand for hate!" As if that will convince lost customers into coming back and buying more Landraiders.
*For the record, I hope none of that happens.
I don't think it will happen though, I mean they themselves will admit they are a model business, not a game one so I don't think they're stupid of enough to torch the only people buying said models. Sure they might try to pander but at the end of the day it's a niche hobby and it's just not conductive to people who are not buying shit.
You can see lately too they've cracked down on their social media and any really forward person has left or been pushed behind the scenes because they keep leaving and starting Youtube channels, podcasts or paint ranges with their own "brand". They don't want that or any "face" that can turn on them and or become an ideologue so I gotta give them credit for putting their foot down.
Hope it stays that way, I still have two armies to finish.
i for one dont like the dispreportionate ammount of power and influence human resources has from the start only person who should have firing power is managorial positions as they are also responsable for the payroll usually hr needs defanged and a counterballence installed to slow abuse. one i see that looks really juicy is management hiring investigative teams from outside the company that are not related or recomended by/to the hr team that respond to hrs notices from hrs budget note for simlicity sake i include their paychecks in that fund and if there is indeed actionable info from the investigative teams report the cost is refunded and the problem employee fired.
Most companies that surrender to communists care more about ESG points than US dollars as currency.
It has actually been kind of shocking to witness. They have been getting hit with all of the usual request for "We want female Space Marines", and they have actually had the stones to tell those people "Just play Sisters of Battle, you dumb nerds! They are literally the same thing stat wise."
And most of their lore has continued to be interesting without even trying to shy away from the grimdark elements of the older lore, except for a handful of situations where they went "Ok, maybe the Daemonculaba was a bit too far."
They did, they openly declared they will blacklist people who hate the regressive left.