I'd say it's stupidity and evil in equal parts. I started playing 40K in the last couple of years of 2nd Edition, played 3rd ed for it's lifespan, and have been watching from the sidelines ever since in mounting dismay. Grey Hunters aren't as good.īut you know what is good?! A new $80 flyer! Buy four of five of them! It?s the only way to win! Now I hear the Space Wolves are being neutered in the new codex. Might as well throw piles of cash on the table and whoever came in with the most wins. People aren't playing to have fun, they're playing to win. An epic duel between HQs was its own reward, armies beating each other bloody was fun to watch and God bless the Orks and their always fun hijinks. don?t get me wrong, winning is always preferable to losing, but there was a time the outcome wasn't as fun as the match. I've had two friends stop playing 40k all together because the rules just leech the fun out of it. Its greedy and it?s a sound business plan, but its evil. I think GW is deliberately making the Codicies bad to force players into Unbound Armies and force them to buy the single unit that?s worth it, which just happens to be the most expensive money wise.Īnd I as a veteran gamer view this as complete evil. And it just so happens the Morkanauts are $105 a pop. And it just so happens you can filed as many as you want in an Unbound Army. But it just so happened the new Morkanauts are awesome. Previously built armies, ones players spent years building, are not worthless. The most used units, for example, Ork Boyz, are now worthless because of the rule changes. And it?s a very precise, specific terrible. I play Space Marine Legion and at 2000 points I outnumbered the Orks, model-for-model.Īnd I think that brings me to what may be the most evil thing GW is doing. I myself played against the new Orks, and I slaughtered them in a victory point match 8-4. I've seen two Knights take on and destroy easily three land raiders worth of Plague Marines. Whole armies being boarded by a swarm of only a few models.

Now a days I'm seeing slaughters at the tables. Before, in the old days, new units were a plus, but a clever player could beat a more expensive army if the points were balanced. The game has turned into a grab-bag of whoever spends the most money wins. Knights come out and they slaughter everything with a simple tactics the more Knights you buy, the better the army. Imperial Guards with more Leman Russes than actual guardsmen. Tyranid swarms of nothing but Zoanthropes. Now strategy is out the window and the winner of the game is whoever spammed a single model the most. They had to ensure a steady supply of cash. large, expensive models with tempting rules that turned the tide of the game. Thus the Apocalypse formations were introduced. They had already begun a large store expansion plan and were laying the groundwork for dozens of new stores. As a stock holder, I would no doubt love GW.īasically as far as I can tell GW needed cash fast. As an outsider, what GW has done is simply greedy. And let me just say I'm using evil in the sense that I as a gamer feel betrayed. And this is when I think GW shifted from stupid to evil. THQ goes belly up and that gushing fountain of money dries up. Thus secondary games like Battlefleet Gothic, Necromunda, Inquisitor, etc? were allowed to die off. GW at some point decided THQ would be around forever and that their flagship products, the tabletop games and models, were irrelevant to their profits and overall company strategy. (see ) This is where they were lazy and just coasted off Dawn of War for a few years, and it led to them being stupid. Apparently a large percentage of their profit came from THQ and Dawn of War royalties.

I honestly think they started out just good old fashion stupid and lazy. Is Games Workshop evil or just plain stupid?

So keep that in mind I love this hobby and I want it to be lovable. I first got into the hobby when I was 7 when my dad bought me a pack of Citadel era Space Marine Combat Cards. Just understand the context of everything I'm about to say, know that I am a veteran 40k player.

Warhammer stupid game