it's not even in the slightest, especially because GW says so.
So, just to be completely clear, you think that if GW stopped making rules for their games, people would keep buying their models?
well,it might seem to you because you clearly hate GW or what they do... but I am as calm as Buddha and just do what I want, without too many emotions on their part.
I can't even work out what you're saying here.
It matters not to me what GW does as long as they provide me with new and shiny toys for my collection. As long as they have enough money to produce more, I am happy with the result
Okay.
I may be displeased with the absence of old dwarves or elves (new ones are great but I want old ones too), or with some directions they are going both fluff and game wise (even model wise to some degree)
You realise that this completely contradicts your previous statement, right?
You either care about what GW does on the non-model front or you don't. If you're dissatisfied with the direction of the game and fluff, then clearly you
do care about the non-model side of the hobby. QED.
but all that stuff hardly matters because no one could influence them if you are not their shareholder
I don't disagree. However, the purpose of this thread was not to try and influence GW. If I wanted to do that, I'd just write a letter of complaint (it wouldn't change anything, but at least there's a better chance of a GW employee actually reading it

).
This thread was simply me, as a returning player, expressing my disappointment with the current state of Vampire Lords - which seem to have lost every last thing I loved about them. I did it to vent a little, but also to see whether anyone else shared my feelings on the matter, and also to see if I was missing anything - if I'd missed some customisation options or if they existed in some weird add-on book. I came to see how dealt with our once-feared Vampire Lords now being about as threatening as the vampires from Twilight (and, if their save is anything to go by, wearing about as much armour).
Your hatred and disappointment won't help it.
Nor will shrugging my shoulders and blindly accepting crap rules and terrible policies.
You mentioned earlier that you just want GW to have enough money to keep making nice models (then you contradicted yourself, but we'll ignore that for now). Well, in that case, shouldn't you be opposing practises that will lose them players (and, by extension, profits with which to make those nice models you so like)?
Let's go back for a moment to what you said in your previous post. Basically, that GW can do whatever the hell they want with their game and that there's no promise to players that anything will remain the same or that their army will remain intact (or will even continue to exist).
Okay. In that case, why should I buy even a single model for them? Bear in mind that, whatever your own preferences, I'm buying models so that I can use them in a game. However, if I , have no guarantee that the models or army I buy will retain their rules (to at least a reasonable degree), nor even that the models will continue to have rules at all, why should I risk buying them? The same goes for armies. If I have no guarantee that my army will not be split into separate factions to the degree that I no longer own a single, complete army; or, worse still, abandoned altogether (not merely getting no new models but getting no more updated rules for existing models), then what incentive is there for me to invest? Especially given that these are very expensive models, of which a sizeable number are needed for an army.
You are right, I cannot change GW's policies with regard to AoS. But I
can choose to not support them by not buying any of their AoS products.