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.
That's exactly what abandoning official 40K would do if a significant enough chunk of the playerbase jumped off to their own system & setting.
If you have a different proposal, I'm open to hearing what alternatives you think exist. But from where I stand the reason that all this happens is that the fans don't really have any leverage because GW owns the game + setting. They can screw people over and unless fans are willing to walk away and play something else (even if that something else is the same w/ filed off serial numbers) then GW holds all the cards.