Matt Colville weighs in.
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Ruin Explorer
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Can a DEAD MAN sign a letter, Scribe? < Stares meaningfully at tombstone of WHFB >
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I have that one. Somewhere. I also have the Underground notebook and the MC somewhere. Though I think with the MC we eventually transferred it out of the original, falling-apart binder into a generic binder.
Scribe
Legend
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I... good point.
MonsterEnvy
Legend
WHFB has an active rpg.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I know, I was just being difficult - Old World is on the way too and Total War Warhammer 3 sold millions of copies (plenty of people playing Vermintide 2 as well).
Bacon Bits
Hero
On the one hand, I agree.
On the other hand, GW has historically been pretty consistently anti-customer. To the extent that the community jokes about how badly they've been abused. With WotC this all felt like a big change! When I read about the reasoning behind Age of Sigmar, I felt more like, "I don't know what I expected."
Scribe
Legend
I read an article by the guy who wrote the rules for AoS, it was an eye opener, and as bad as I thought it would be considering the state of that 'game' on release.
eyeheartawk
#1 Enworld Jerk™
You mean whoever has a bigger moustache can go first is not a good rule?I read an article by the guy who wrote the rules for AoS, it was an eye opener, and as bad as I thought it would be considering the state of that 'game' on release.
Scribe
Legend
You should go look for it, its worth the laugh. Essentially everything some of us had been saying about AoS, wasn't even the full scale of stupidity at GW at the time.
Kinda like another situation...weird that.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Oh my god if you find that article again chuck it my way lolI read an article by the guy who wrote the rules for AoS, it was an eye opener, and as bad as I thought it would be considering the state of that 'game' on release.
Scribe
Legend
It may be this one.
The Goonhammer Interview with James M Hewitt, Part 1: Age of Sigmar and 40k
James M Hewitt worked for Games Workshop as part of the Citadel studio rules team, before becoming a founding member of the newly created Specialist Games Team. He now operates Needy Cat Games with…
www.goonhammer.com
Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
I think "You can't take the dice from me!" is our new anthem.
Plokman
Explorer
They rolled a nat 1, you can't stop this great big community! Fix it up or you'll gain none, Hasbro you done screwed up son!
Sung to the Tune of Rocko's Modern Life's "You can't fight city hall" which comes back to sass said city hall.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Wow thank you and holy hell is much worse than just the moustache thing, like you said.It may be this one.
The Goonhammer Interview with James M Hewitt, Part 1: Age of Sigmar and 40k
James M Hewitt worked for Games Workshop as part of the Citadel studio rules team, before becoming a founding member of the newly created Specialist Games Team. He now operates Needy Cat Games with…
"All we were thinking about was how exciting this was going to be, people were going to be shocked but actually, we weren’t taking anything away."
Ooof. Just looking at the AoS website and like 90% of a lot of armies are gone in the sense that there are no models being made, more in some cases. The guy being interviewed knows all this though, which helps.
Interesting/depressing that the thinking behind the Stormcast really was "fantasy space marines", contrary to the players who insist otherwise.
Anyway sounds like the whole thing was a hell of an "echo chamber".
"The rules were very much the last thought in the process, and that was like the microcosm of how it was like at GW at that point. That was the case for everything."
Owwww right in the nuts lol damn.
"There was a big drive at that time to pull the game away from the hands of the gamers, so to speak, and make it more about collecting and modelling."
LOL hmmmmm sounds familiar.
"And then, because there was no balancing, because the second of the edicts from on high was that there would be no balancing, no points, when units have different options we had to make sure they were equal but different. "
There's so much more. Wow.
Hussar
Legend
But you’re not going to purchase the print copies. Instead you get a vtt and database access.
Like you say, they are different. But, not terribly far off in pricing.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
The pricing isn't really the issue.
The value proposition is.
The value proposition with the Paizo offering is gigantic - it's permanent, owned, no-one-can-take-it-away access to stuff.
The value proposition with the WotC offering is much worse - it's temporary access to the VTT and presumably to the books for it, together some total rubbish like some free mini "drops" and so on.
teitan
Legend
You’re taking Neverwinter.
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