Reply To: [unofficial Weekender] Why is G'Wullu seemingly invincible?

[bvandewalker]

Actually, GW has one glaring weakness that all of you I have so far read are ignoring, and that is the fact they are on the stock market. While this is also arguably their greatest strength since its the only reason why they are everywhere, etc. (everywhere miniature wargaming stuff is sold in big way anyways lol)  it also means if someone, or someones,  with the money thinks GW should go away, then GW will go away with gusto.

They are  a prime target for removal or purchase by other entertainment groups that may have an interest in exploiting our tiny market simply because it growing from the number folk trying to avoid the culture wars (for example Disney could buy them out just to shut their doors and establish some war game franchise of their own, or keep GW but accidentally kill all the franchises the same way they did with Starwars).

I think its only a matter of time before someone who can remove them from play will do so or they lose franchise power by being bought out by the wrong mega corp.

Beyond that the lore they have been selling since forever alone is frankly offensive to everyone in the room on both sides of the culture wars and not in particularly funny forgivable way, plus they have constantly gone with the ethically questionable marketing tactic of targeting children with a  mature themed franchise (if we are being honest based on actions alone they are the table top game company your Boomer grandparents should have protested against in the Satanic Panic, not TSR). We can’t say they have a lot friends in either camp and given Budweiser, Target, Twitter and Disney were not immune to crusades, its doubtful GW is even with “Papa Blackrock” backing them and you guys still buying their crack. Frankly it more than possible that a “Musk” might show up and either buy them out or starts a new brand that changes everything in the hobby simply because they think it needs to be done and guys they are probably right.

Edit: Also guys I have said this before but your all overestimating GW’s influence like people raised by a cult, I think CATAN  is a more common denominator among general table top gamers  than anything GW has ever had out. The only place  GW  really dominants is the miniature wargaming market basically because of stock funded ads and marketing, they have a sorta of a third or fourth tier presence at best in most of the other TT niches which are all bigger markets by the way, maybe lower second tier in TTRPGs in a real slow decade.     And I don’t say this as some noob,  I was raised in a geeky family  and back when I was a kid in the 90’s and early 2000’s, it was all D&D, MTG, and Japanese trading cards  in the USA, you had to seek out GW stuff to find GW stuff and still kinda of do here the states.

 

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by bvandewalker.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by bvandewalker.