Did you fail to notice this paragraph though?

> Games Workshop’s executives say they don’t do media interviews, preferring to focus on their hobbyists. But chief executive officer Mark Wells emails me about the claim of price exploitation. “That would go against everything we stand for. It’s just not in our nature,” he writes.

What is there to notice?

There is a different between giving an interview and sending an email with regards to a claim of price exploitation.

“The popularity of wargaming cannot be denied, but is mainstream attention a good thing for the game?” Ill go with a “No” as this always seems to attract people that simply arent THAT much into wargaming. They tend to be less involved into the background , and mostly they are not interested in the background whatsoever. Or they turn Everything into a huge fucking joke ( like a pink painted gay Imperial army in Warhammer Fantasy with a “dark-room” steam tank, I simply dont like to play aginst such people as they ruin the overall feeling for me as its… Read more »

The money hungry behemoth? Lets not get silly here. GW could potentially save themselves alot of money by closing a chunk of stores and not have to pay any cost with regards to renting shops or paying the staff within.

You’ll have to forgive me in believing that some people just latch on to the GW hate wagon far too easily and have not actually had a think with regards to some of the costs GW incurs.

There is bashing for the sake of it and there is fair criticism. The article was a good one imho and I don’t feel pessimistic about it as Partisan does. On the whole it was balanced and it certainly refrained from the point and laugh at nerds reportage that one would expect. My criticism is that the article was titled, “Why Do Grown Men Play With Toy Soldiers?” iirc, not, “Why do grown men play WH40k?” I remember there being a Wargame Soc at school c1972 and collecting Airfix OO/HO Napoleonics and modern figures, getting rulebooks from the library and… Read more »

Not a terrible article, in that it didnt paint us all as sad people with no lifes as is usually the case, but the title of the piece kind of sets the tone, and it doesnt help the cause at all. Whilst I agree with Chibi that it kind of portrays the hobby itself as ’40k’ and little more, I think that part is kind of forgivable given its primarily about the 25th anniversary thing . Whats more surprising is Fantasy never got, to my recollection, any such treatment, and that game, until recently at least, was always seen as… Read more »

a bit concise, I’d like to see something with a bit more meat on it. Who knows some TV producer may have seen it and may care to expand on the theme.
It didn’t show wargamming in a bad light, there were some nice clear shots of models and hopefully into sparked some interest in somone.
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
If something like this provides new opponents and therefore boosting sales of wargames manufacturers, who will then go on to making more shiney things for us. I can handle some of that.

They couldda chosen a better pic of the ‘crons for the first image… I mean, they’re pretty crapily painted, and not even stuck together right. They should be hunched over, not stood perfectly upright, that just makes it look like they’ve got something stuck up their arse. They’ve built them wrong, and then just drybrushed them in boltgun metal, painted the gauss flayer black and stuck in the rod. Lame. Mine have bronze/gold “sternums” and “spines”, blue shoulder blade-plate things, I painted the eyes… etc. Seriously, I painted my Warriors some 5 years ago, and they STILL look better than… Read more »

Also, just to add, the green glow from the rods on the arms and hands of the Warriors was my first ever attempt as OSL painting. Looking at it now I realise I couldda done a lot better, but I’ve had a lot more practice. Still, it doesn’t look bad… at least, I don’t think so. :p

There would be both pros and cons to wargaming being more mainstream. Pros: 1. With more of an audience there would be more competition and we would probably see prices drop and new interesting wargames come out. 2. The more the marrier and the less wargamers would be made fun of Cons: 1. With more players we would be bound to get more players who don’t really try, never take the game seriously, are power gamers or are just generally annoying 2. WIth more popularity and more demand, the companies we know and love today may start to slowly slip… Read more »

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/peter-cushing

That was funny article.

By the way this was very GW centric article as other companies like PP were not even mentioned. To people that don’t know better that might give expression that there is not others and GW is only company making these games. As we all know thats not true at all but not everyone knows it.

GW make the effort to be on the highstreet, it’s hardy surprising other companies game systems were not touched upon in any great detail. I would conjecture most gamers in the last couple of decades got into the overall hobby through GW. Media attention on the hobby can only be a good thing. It generates more interest and creates conversation and promotion which propels the overall industry forwards.

I think it’s typical for the big name to get all the glory in such an article. Though it would break the average heart here to hear it, GW did not invent wargames, nor are they the only game (nor the best – sorry, guys!) in town. But you see the same thing happening anytime there’s news for D&D. When 5th Ed was announced, the press pounced on the notion that WoTC was somehow doing something new and innovative in asking their fanbase to participate in development. But there’s nothing new about that at all, and in fact, in all… Read more »

People complaining that the article doesn’t mention other games companies have obviously missed the point. The article came about because GW recently reached 25 years of being around. It’s in the first line of the article, in bold no less. Warhammer 40,000 – set in a science fantasy universe – has just turned 25. Why are grown men still launching tabletop war? This article is a fluff piece; nothing more. If you really thought that the article would be some all-encompassing thing that would talk about the many other game systems, then I’ve got a bridge to sell you. GW… Read more »

I didn’t say there was anything wrong with people suggesting that the article might have expanded upon to include other company game systems, I said there was something wrong with people complaining that it didn’t.

There is a difference.

Nor did I say Wargaming wouldn’t be around if GW didn’t exist. I said that other companies certainly benefit from GW being around. You can’t possibly dispute that.