- Dec 16, 2012
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Enjoy. TLDR? Chaos wins and everyone dies.
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the man might be Archaon...
The warhammer world is in the realm of chaos. Always has been. Makes sense.If it doesn't have chaos in the name you're screwed!
Out of all the routes they could have gone down, chaos spills out of control and kills everything? I've been a big supporter of the end times thus far but this is too much. Now I'm wishing for once there was an instant win button for the good guys.
And what of all the characters who are important to each race but didn't even get a mention?
In 40k the chaos munchkins have trouble getting out of the eye of terror yet in fantasy they actually manage to destroy everything, where's Draigo when you need him?!
I think you are WAY to quick to fully blame GW on this.I doubt they're expecting us to by it all again. I mean, if some of us do, I'm sure they'd be happy, but this whole end times deal is only happening because they already lost us. Whatever remained of the fantasy community wasn't worth saving, we bought so little. Blame them for letting it get so far, sure. Blame them for the decisions that brought us here. Blame them for running what was once the premier fantasy minis game and their own flagship product line into the ground.
But I wouldn't extend that animosity to the the end times or their inevitable conclusion, or even the new edition, regardless of whether you buy into it. Fantasy had already failed, to the point that they couldn't justify continuing it, to the point that they had seriously considered just dropping it flat out. Instead they they gave us a huge send off. If anything, that indicates a considerable amount of respect for the game and its history and its remaining players, that they would put as much effort as they have into saying goodbye.
Again, its a shame that their failed policies and decisions brought it to this point - their refusal to see the rising prices per model combined with rising model count per army destroying the game's accessibility, the glut of factions making the game impossible to stock, their predatory retail practices destroying local game communities, their refusal to meaningfully interact with their consumers or encourage local communities with organized play support and their rejection of competitive play in general allowing competitors to strip away game-oriented players, letting the game world go without meaningful development for so long that it became boring and stagnant, their trade, internet, and legal policies alienating condumers in a social media age where that matters more than ever...
I mean yeah, GW made a lot of terrible mistakes, which absolutely killed fantasy as we knew it, and yes, I'm quite bitter about that. But it was already dead when the end times began. What we got in the end times was, imo, a rather dignified burial, all things considered, and I'm quite thankful for it.
Doesn't necesarily mean I'm on board for 9e, though.