Reply To: GW: Why do they do it?

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@bubbles15 I understand your frustration with a lot of the pettiness on the internet surrounding some of the GW stuff, and I get how upsetting it is to read over and over again, but I think you may have chosen the wrong people to snap (for want of a better word) at. There is a lot of that kind of thing floating around, and it does happen, but here this is a friendly debate about a subject.

I reckon most of us here started with a GW game at whatever edition it was, and a lot of us here have subsequently found a new thing we like through the hobby. Some of us went lower in scale, some of us when ridiculously lower in scale, I swear SOMEONE went higher in scale, but people branched out. Here is an opportunity for people to give their view on the matter.

I doubt @carlospictor really wanted to winge and complain that things aren’t being handed to them that they want, they just noticed a pattern of occurrences and wanted to ask some opinions from the community. Similarly with @jamescutts it was more a matter of ‘I lost interest because…’ than ‘they wouldn’t give me what I wanted’. We’re a community of people who love playing with/painting/collecting tiny fighting men and we like to share what we’re getting up to from time to time or to ask opinions. Personally I kind of like the notion of being able to ask some fellow hobbyists these kinds of questions to see what the general feel of a subject is. I once asked ‘why the hate for the Ultramarines?’ and I got a very pleasant conversation going through various people’s opinions on the subject.

On the other side, I know that there are places out there where the ‘GW hate’ gets out of hand, frustrating, and often downright upsetting. I’ve had those moments myself and sometimes I’ve lashed out a bit with it; it happens. You also have to consider that not everyone here has in depth knowledge of certain business practices (hell most of us work in IT apparently, and I’m in Geology), or other related subjects. Many of us aren’t even from the same country so have different rules or different viewpoints on things. I get the frustration, mate, but we’re not trying to attack something here, just debate what is happening in our favourite hobby.