Reply To: Soloman Kane KS about to arrive, and I couldn't care less!

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I guess part of this is the ‘instant gratification’ versus FOMO. GW and companies go for instant gratification. Want a 40K starter set? Anywhere in the world within days at most, anytime for the last 30 years.

KS games, particularly ones like Conan, Mythic Battles, etc that were never envisioned going to retail as a continous product certainly fed off the FOMO idea. They countered the wait times with the promise of a game with boxes of high detail plastic and so many extras they’d never need to do more. But you only had this one chance to get it. In a world of 24/7 convience and the ever increasing previlence of 3D printing, why should I wait for years for a product I paid for today?

The other factor is that to be honest, with exception of Blood Rage and Scythe there have been very few great games I’ve bought through KS. Theres been a few good ones, but most have lured me in with the miniatures that were, lets be honest ‘Gw-good but cheap as Reaper Bones’. GW games were,for the most part, crap. They remain convienient ways to hook you on models for their 2 main IPs but if the miniatures are the biggest hook and the quality of the rules isn’t at least great, why am I waiting?

Before Kill Team, Warcry, Blackstone Fortress and Underworlds I was prepared to say all their games were crap. But they are getting better. Now I hear that Adeptus Titanicus and Blood Bowl are good and Battles in Middle Earth has returned. Maybe GW has upped it’s game in the rules department?  I think it may be partially, (but certainly not the only reason) why KS is in decline and GW is anain on the rise.

I think most gamers want great games over great miniatures, but if they cant get them theyll take average rules and good miniatures today, over rules of unknown quality and great miniatures they wont hold for years.