Reply To: Warhammer Fantasy Battle….'returns'??

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@slayerofworlds

Of course GW hasn’t changed. It’s been a business designed to make money from the day it started. WHFB was created to get people to buy units of minis rather than single playing pieces for RPGs. They set out to make money and they do that by selling minis. If they make your old armies perfectly viable you don’t buy new minis and they don’t make money.

If you want to use old armies, use old rules.

If GW had, in any way, thought they could make WHFB profitable with a 9th edition they would have done so. They didn’t kill it out of spite, they killed it because it was financially sinking into the mire. A community holding a game dear doesn’t keep it alive. Buying new releases does.

We don’t know if it’s actually getting a relaunch or in what shape it’ll arrive but maybe GW have realised that relaunching games that have been absent a while works pretty well.

When they announced Blood Bowl was going to be relaunched all the same salty arguments were made from old players that couldn’t tell enough people how they weren’t going to come back to the game and how 3rd party companies were now flying the flag and had better minis and GW had screwed up and blah blah blah..

Every new Blood Bowl release sees the cards, pitches and dice sell out within days. What a blunder.

I honestly can’t understand your anger at them bringing back old games. You say they’re only interested in sales as if that’s some evil masterplan, and not the entire point of the company since its inception. If GW sold ovens it wouldn’t be because they purely wanted to see people get hot meals…