Warhammer goes woke. Tries to rewrite history
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The worst is having to sit and watch all the flood of smug, sanctimonious tourists do their victory laps and celebrations while anyone pointing out otherwise is shouted down or harassed.
I fucking hate these people.
Let him have their make-believe victory lap. The company was going in a death spiral for a few years now. This is the end of the flush. Between the shitty kid’s books, the Games Workshop+ shitstorm, the ever-expanding prices of the minis, and the dumbifying of rules, this is nothing. It shows we need to make our own now table-top game. For us, by us.
It'd be simple and straightforward to clone the core setting & rules of 40k and just make your own. There's literally nothing stopping people now, easier than ever. A council of high-profile 40k guys who agreed to stop promoting 40k and supported a fan-made & fan-curated alternative could succeed.
I don't think ceding ground and abandoning a cultural outpost is the right call, even if it's lost. This fosters the mindset that it's ok to lose ground because we'll just make our own 40k with blackjack and hookers. There's decades of creation and cultural capital infused into that cultural outpost and the enemy should at least have to sacrifice something in order to take it. Make it hurt instead of handing it over for free.
Getting people to stop supporting GW is the only way to hurt them. Replacing WH40K with a better product and getting people to switch is the only way to do it. That and a lot of gate keeping.