Emicrania,
I can appreciate your honesty and directness, but making assumptions about how I spend my time and energy and judging me is rude. Although you're entitled to your opinions, considering you haven't played Age of Sigmar, you are not really in a position to judge it or people enjoying it.
Likewise, if Age of Sigmar was shit, I wouldn't waste my time on it. I've played GW games for 25 years because overall they make solid, interesting games and amazing miniatures. So, if they are going to take a 30-year old game like Warhammer Fantasy and replace it with Age of Sigmar, I'm going to investigate and understand Age of Sigmar before writing it off. So far, each time I play AoS or discuss tactics with other players, we keep discovering that the game has a huge depth of tactics for such a simple, streamlined set of rules. Less can be more, and that alone intrigues me. I would advise you to give AoS a fair shot, play half a dozen games at least. Just please do it with an open mind, you might be surprised what you discover.
Likewise, next time you want to make assumptions about someone, check yourself. You asking me if I'm to invested to give it up is a perfectly fine question. But you telling me that I am and discounting my own experience, knowledge and contributions to the community just makes you look foolish. You can't support your statement, and my reputation and efforts here actually point to the contrary.
Look, I hope you take this constructively. Initially I was put off by your comment and I waited to respond so I was objective and fair. As a moderator, everyone within our community is important to me and I rather we had good communication and clear up any bad feelings then have negativity fester. Please, see that is my intent and help encourage and grow the community and your relationships here positively.
Sincerely,
Najo
Najo, I sincerely have no problem at all with what other people outside us can think or see. None.
However I talk to you personally,because in the past I received a lot of help from you, which kind of allow me to say my opinion,and mark it as such. Between say "you are like that" and say "I think you do that" there is a world of difference, the difference between honesty and arrogance.
Now, is kind of obvious that you are advocating to keep people playing and testing as much you have a positive and encouraging attitude towards this new system.
I am negative because in the last many years all I have seen is a huge decline in quality of fluff,irony,richness and simple model quality. Also the price/quality is worst. Finecast is the easy boy to pick on,but the Ratogre and the new dark elves/eldar gives a pretty clear direction of where ae are going.
I would be sad if I would realize that is me getting older,but honestly, is the game moving towards MtG direction, where everything that is dark,becomes grey (old cards with pentagrams anyone?) and everything that was rich becomes simpler and simpler (nice free compendium, but hej,what is a difference in fluff between a skeleton a zombie and a TG ???)
Slaneesh,what happened to you!?
Now for the ruleset. I am going to play and play, but 4 pages ruleset is simple to say the least. If you would pick any new game with 4 page rulest,you wouldnt even consider to spend XXX$ on it. ever.
Sometimes less is more,sometimes nothing is better.
D&D players and any GDR player around the world would be enraged if they would give em a 4 pages new ruleset.
So if this is a TOY company,than ok,be it, but pretending to be a tabletop company making no effort at all to make something with any sense,is just ridiculous.
I am not sold and any video won't change my mind,not because I am mind closed,but because i would not play ANY game that have such a poor BG and rulespan.
And this is not only me and is not only because of the fluff. Is just a fucking boring game and I don't like it and I will keep on complain as long as I feel for. I played for 12 years? I think i will complain for the next 6.
As a constructive discussion, after I ll play the game I will give more technicality, but as far at it goes, trowing pile of models back and forth,or V shape em,or ignore all my painting work for the sake of an extra attack,is nothing that makes me engage that half day off to play a kid game.
All in all,if is still ok to disagree and not like something you guys might like.
Otherwise, The Hive Mind might protect us all.