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For those of you in the Warhammer 40K fandom, you may have noticed the really awesome fan animations popping up over the last year or so like Astartes.

You may have also noticed those animations vanishing across their previous hosting platforms as Games Workshop signed on all the content creators doing the job the main company should be doing.

And now we know what they've done with those missing content creators.

Enter Warhammer+.

Now Games Workshop is in the animation business themselves which could mean a lot of things. Negative things. Things like corporate oversight, focus testing, throttling of content and the inevitable paywall. Not to mention copyright strikes against any fan animator not in their stable as their work will be direct competition with GW's own.

We don't know for sure what's going on as the due date for more information is late June, but what we've got already doesn't look promising.

Godly animation project Astartes reappeared on GW's Community site with changed music and a weird edit. It's also telling that Games Workshop's Youtube channel disabled comments.

Fortunately, the original version can be found on Youtube; uploaded by other people.

(For however long that lasts.)

Youtuber Arch (formerly Arch Warhammer) helpfully pointed out all this came on the heels of both Games Workshop's obnoxious partnership with Marvel to produce a comic about Marneus Calgar (only to kill and replace him ,as is common with Marvel characters), but also went to the trouble of hiring a former Hasbro executive to manage "content strategy".

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only corporate bullshit.

Archive Links:

Games Workshop hires former Habro Executive - https://archive.is/8FcoS

Warhammer Animation Preview - https://archive.is/v8fVp

Arch's video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p61tWi8kObA

Games Workshop's Community Site version of Astartes - https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-animation-astartes/

Original version of Astartes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVXEYksoE6c