Reply To: Is NewGW returning to old ways?

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I think GW did become a bit more ‘open’ than it used to be.
However given how it used to absolutely hate everyone equally it wasn’t that hard to improve their public image (I’m still glad that facelift happened … ).

I also doubt that GW could ever open up their comment sections for there youtube videos without thousands of angry nerdy fan boys spamming their hatred. Same thing applies to their twitch stream. The potential for toxic comments from either their fanboys or the anti-GW crowd is so high it probably would result in YouTube banning them within days for violating their ToS.

(btw: White Dwarf has always been an ad catalog for their own product since they stopped featuring non GW stuff last century … )

It sucks that they can’t be more open and friendly towards hobbyists, but then … what business really is ?
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@rastamann yeah … it does suck, because the game has soo much potential.
I think the best way to treat GW products is to look at the individual releases and use them for parts you can’t get anywhere else (unless you own a 3D printer … ).
With ‘open’ systems like Frostgrave promoting the maker-attitude towards gaming we already have better alternatives than (most) GW rules.

Saga Age of Magic and/or Warlords of Erehwon as alternates for AoS
Starbreach as a 40k / Killteam alternative

I think WarCry is the only thing that feels like a system that has decent support from GW.

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It does kind of suck that GW produces really good terrain kits, but they chose to keep their stocks so limited that you either need to buy them the moment they are released or ‘risk’ paying more for less as the kits get re-packaged.
I suspect the beancounters took issue with the amount of potential savings that were possible with (some of) the Killteam kits in particular.