The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Major_Gilbear]

I woulldn't like to see them all gone either, but I WOULD like to see them heading off in a new direction...

Agreed - all the other bones in the human skeleton are grossly under-represented on GW models.

[Wirelizard]

I would just like to point out that we are now at 100 pages of hate! Yay! 

Seems more like 100 pages of comprehensive mockery to me, at least recently.

Oh can I have the Skullz egg skullz skullz bacon and skullz, but instead of egg I'd like Skullz.

^ Exhibit A, yer honour. The defence needs a drink. 

[Dr. The Viking]

Seems more like 100 pages of comprehensive mockery to me, at least recently.

Yeah! Seconded. I am surprised that this really means so much to people on here.

I only end up here because I keep getting it in my feed of replies to own posts because I replied in the beginning! Haha! 

[Diakon]

I would just like to point out that we are now at 100 pages of hate! Yay! 

It is quite light-hearted, good-intentioned hate. 

[matthais-mouse]

Oh can I have the Skullz egg skullz skullz bacon and skullz, but instead of egg I'd like Skullz.

Sorry we're all out of bacon, so just skullz? 

[Mason]

Yeah! Seconded. I am surprised that this really means so much to people on here.

I only end up here because I keep getting it in my feed of replies to own posts because I replied in the beginning! Haha! 

Seconded!
That is exactly how I keep drifting back here, and I suspect it is the same for a high percentage of contributors.
 

[Dr. Zombie]

I suppose it means a lot to people because GW has been a gateway drug for a lot of people. (if not most)

I love the setting of both 40k and fantasy. I don't play any of the games anymore, but I would like to. If only GW would snap out of whatever fase it is they are going through and start beeing awesome again.

GW has been awesome in the past only now it is so long ago it has almost faded from memory.

[Mason]

I suppose it means a lot to people because GW has been a gateway drug for a lot of people. (if not most)

I love the setting of both 40k and fantasy. I don't play any of the games anymore, but I would like to. If only GW would snap out of whatever fase it is they are going through and start beeing awesome again.

GW has been awesome in the past only now it is so long ago it has almost faded from memory.

I know that feeling, Doc.
I still have quite a few of the older classics, including Mordheim, Necromunda, Blood Bowl, Judge Dredd RPG, WHFB 3rd edition, Battlecars, Dark Future and RT.

Love them all but fell out of love with GW itself a long time ago.

[nic-e]

Off topic (sort of) i saw nick bibbys bear sculpture in oxford street the other day and had a sudden moment of joy when i realized it was his work.
I did get a bit of an odd look from some people when i pointed to it and shouted "i know that bear!" , but hey ho.

[Modhail]

I agree with Doc and Mason.
I love the setting of 40K and Fantasy, but those games and the company moved far away from what attracted me to them in the first place.
I own and love many of the classics GW themselves have discarded in their sycophancy to their shareholders and insane company dogma.

I see that potential for greatness they have in their ranges and settings and how they squander it. And I wish they would just extract their craniums from their sphincters and go back to doing stuff right again.
As Dr. Zombie said:

GW has been awesome in the past only now it is so long ago it has almost faded from memory.

[OSHIROmodels]

I only end up here because I keep getting it in my feed of replies to own posts because I replied in the beginning! Haha! 

It's your own bloody fault then  

Off topic (sort of) i saw nick bibbys bear sculpture in oxford street the other day and had a sudden moment of joy when i realized it was his work.
I did get a bit of an odd look from some people when i pointed to it and shouted "i know that bear!" , but hey ho.

Pics? (of the bear, not you pointing   )

cheers

James

[Mason]

Pics? (of the bear, not you pointing   )

http://www.nickbibby.net/

[nic-e]

It's your own bloody fault then  

Pics? (of the bear, not you pointing   )

cheers

James

It's bloody huge. Quite amazing to think of it in comparison to a rto1 marine.





A do love the 40k setting beyond all over settings, but i wish the game was more like inq28  and had stuck t oa blanche like style

[von Lucky]

I have followed this thread for a while. Might as well post so I can stay up to date with it.

Games Workshop is the Irish pubs of gaming. Simple, enticing and easily accessible. In the days before the internet it was how most of us got into gaming because it was the only gaming company with a magazine and stores to capture us. Today the internet allows anyone (look at Kickstarter et al.) to reach the relatively small number of gamers in the world and grab their attention cheaply and from anywhere.

Around 2000 Games Workshop believed as there's new (younger) gamers born every day the trick was to get them. But isn't retention of your current customers cheaper? Also not listening to critism will eventually lose you fans. How hard would it be to support Specialist Games? Hell that's all I game from GW now (painting a Blood Bowl team at the moment).

Meh - I think Games Workshop is here for the long run. It will only take a new CEO (or an old one - see Apple) to turn things around to be innovative again.

If that CEO is Scurv, so be it.

[OSHIROmodels]

It's bloody huge. Quite amazing to think of it in comparison to a rto1 marine.

about the same size then using current conventions  

A do love the 40k setting beyond all over settings, but i wish the game was more like inq28  and had stuck t oa blanche like style

Paul Bonner got it for me, that's the setting and style that I like  

cheers

James