The Battle For Warhammer Has Begun
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Arch has been doing the rounds on this making a good point as how Amazon could be behind this:
With any character changes or introduction in 40k, GW follows up quickly with a new figurine to buy since that is their primary product.
Where are the female Custodian figurines?
It seems the fact they outright gaslit their customers has pissed off even the whales that buy their sets, if they aren't buying 3D printers by now, they are buying from those that HAVE 3D printers.
Even twenty years ago when I was still doing the tournament and painting circuit, a ton of people used bootleg and third party miniatures. Only time you didn't see it everywhere was official stuff since GW banned it from official play like the turbofags they are.
Outside of say, Golden Demon competition? Everyone was using knock offs.
Tbh I kbew a guy that's been featured in white dwarf and displayed in Nottingham Warhammer world.
His entire army is from chyna. Either the stuffs so good now GeeDubs can't tell the difference or as I suspect, he was sucking off the judges.
If they openly took bribes in the 90s I can't imagine it got better.
Were they any good, though? The 3D printed stuff? Or are we talking Chinese imitation from actual factories?
In the 90s it was Chinese knock offs yeah.
If they had any imagination whatsoever this could easily have been avoided SM.
A specialist birthing sect in the style of The Handmaid's Tale who were completely out-of-sight of the main warfare aspect of the universe but still as capable in a variety of other ways, rich in lore and subculture(s) completely clandestine until something happens which opens up their existence for a specific story. Perhaps an evolved Sisterhood of Silence agent or even buried deeper in the shadows.
But nope, give me your toys and I'll just make them immediately into my toys because that's how you establish a massive following going on 40 years.
I hope Cavill doesn't get too pissed off with this like he did with The Witcher or we might get another Alec Holowka, with him going the way of George Reeves and a bunch of folk saying "It was nothing I did or said..."
This would still be diversity pandering and bad.
To be honest, the greater importance GW has given Sisters of Battle, female inquisitors, how every Eldar main character these days tends to be female -- They're already pandering hard.
I'd much rather they play their hand this way, it clarifies the situation.
Any change in the rules or adoption of new elements always comes with some friction and this is to be expected.
I'm far from hardcore or even close to being far from hardcore but my friends (And apparently their communities) are livid over this.
Hopefully it calms down to something akin to being settled again but they might give up the game altogether - Like I have done with Star Wars and Star Trek.
There's good reason to be livid, because Leftists don't care about canon in franchises. Woke infestation basically signals the end of the franchise as we've seen with Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Witcher, Marvel, etc.
There's no point in caring about the IP if the rules of the IP can be changed on a whim based on some Leftist's personal feelings.
The correct action in this time is for fans to simply draw a line in the sand. No more GW products, no more GW books or lore are canon (most of the recent stuff is shite anyway since they decided that Belisarius Cawl can just magick do anything with no rhyme or reason).
GW don't appear great at their own lore so they'd never come up with a plausible reason.
I kind of liked the Primaris marines purely because they advance the story and correct the power creep of SM's getting overshadowed. Their implementation was garbage though, my head canon is that "Bellisarius Cawl is just a cover story"