Reply To: [unofficial weekender] yet another week passed

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I’m not sure GW would ever go “pop”.
I think one day we’ll just stop thinking of it as the monolith that looms over all our hobby head-space.
As more and more of us do this, eventually it will just become ignored. I think it will just decline and more and more replacements will enter the market.
A bit like Kodak – who famously refused to innovate and just kind of slumped; they didn’t disappear, they didn’t go “pop” like Woolworths and just disappear, they just kind of limped along for a while and everyone just forgot about them (or maybe like Yahoo!)

I’d be surprised if GW shareholders allowed such a thing to happen – but they might be helpless to prevent it, if player tastes/demands change and the company fails to keep up; I honestly think that in the next few years, their business model will have to change from the current “we’ll tell you what you think you want” to “we’ll deliver what you’re asking for”.

Still intrigued to see how they will (or, possibly refuse to) deal with 3d printing.
In just three or four years, the quality (and quantity) of sculptors (many of whom are ex-GW freelancers) has gone from “meh” to “amazing”. The days of having stuff manufactured and shipped from a place half way around the world are coming to an end. It may take ten years or more, but more and more manufacturing is “coming home” – it’s a movement that will gain momentum as just the fuel costs alone for transporting goods around the globe makes them prohibitively expensive.

But I don’t think they’d ever disappear and leave a vacuum or a black hole – they’ll lose ground to other companies and the overall market will remain pretty healthy, I reckon.

Here’s this weeks meme courtesy of social media

Here’s this weeks music.
Reminds me a little bit of 90s rock sensations Little Angels. I like them. The north east produced some fine rock bands during the 80s-90s.