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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7747622" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Those Warhammer covers are hilarious to me. I haven't read a 40K book in years, but I might have to pick those up.</p><p></p><p>But I suspect that GW has lost the plot a bit. You attract the kids to something like 4oK by having your property be something that pushes the boundaries enough that mom and dad give it the side-eye but not enough that they refuse to buy it outright. Part of the problem that Warhammer has attracting the kiddos to the game is that it's something your dad does and so it isn't the kind of thing that kids can glom onto to be "theirs" in the way that it was back in the day, so you can't really attract as many of those kinds of boundary pushing kids anymore - they're going to get into something else instead. You're going to get more kids who are introduced to the game via their parents or other older family members instead.</p><p></p><p>I think they'll get more mileage out of cheap intro sets and free rules. It's much easier to hand off the game to a niece or nephew when the cost is low enough that it's an obvious choice for a birthday/Christmas gift. They should also probably cultivate some YouTubers to play some games on their channels and maybe show kids how awesome it is to spend hours carefully painting minis for your armies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7747622, member: 19857"] Those Warhammer covers are hilarious to me. I haven't read a 40K book in years, but I might have to pick those up. But I suspect that GW has lost the plot a bit. You attract the kids to something like 4oK by having your property be something that pushes the boundaries enough that mom and dad give it the side-eye but not enough that they refuse to buy it outright. Part of the problem that Warhammer has attracting the kiddos to the game is that it's something your dad does and so it isn't the kind of thing that kids can glom onto to be "theirs" in the way that it was back in the day, so you can't really attract as many of those kinds of boundary pushing kids anymore - they're going to get into something else instead. You're going to get more kids who are introduced to the game via their parents or other older family members instead. I think they'll get more mileage out of cheap intro sets and free rules. It's much easier to hand off the game to a niece or nephew when the cost is low enough that it's an obvious choice for a birthday/Christmas gift. They should also probably cultivate some YouTubers to play some games on their channels and maybe show kids how awesome it is to spend hours carefully painting minis for your armies. [/QUOTE]
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