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Games Workshop takes the wrong lessons from Disney and starts Warhammer+.

submitted by WittyUserName to oneangrygamer 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 00:07:18 ago (+14/-0)     (archive.is)

https://archive.is/v8fVp

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


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[ - ] TheLastStraightFrog 2 points 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 04:54:18 ago (+2/-0)

Reject WH40k embrace homebrew using 3D printer

[ - ] Mystiker 0 points 3.9 yearsMay 30, 2021 07:15:36 ago (+0/-0)

3D printers have gotten goooooooooooood. You can make stuff like the FGC-9 too!

[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 3 points 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 02:44:17 ago (+3/-0)

I never was into Warhammer, but that's going to seriously suck for fans.

I bet you guys are excited for all the woke animated Warhammer stuff that you have to pay a subscription for.

[ - ] fightknightHERO 2 points 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 04:46:50 ago (+2/-0)

haven't paid for a vidya gaem since Kingdom Come Deliverance...
the industry is so anti-white, so niggerized and faggotized to the point i'd rather just do something productive with my time

in a sense it's actually a positive thing, but at the same time it also shows how subverted has our culture become
vidya used to be a pastime for men to blow off some steam, now it's thoroughly judizied to the point where it's not even about entertainment, it's propaganda...
niggerfaggot kike propaganda.

[ - ] deleted 3 points 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 03:23:14 ago (+3/-0)

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[ - ] Mystiker 0 points 3.9 yearsMay 30, 2021 07:14:39 ago (+0/-0)

Because every time they actually do that, they find out that everybody prefers the White guy version. And that pesky fact gets in the way of their anti-White pro-Jewish agenda.

[ - ] yesiknow 3 points 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 06:40:13 ago (+3/-0)

But they used the word "diverse" in their advertising blurb. That means they're good and you are bad if you don't worship them.

That's how the world works now because we haven't killed the tyrants yet.

[ - ] account deleted by user 3 points 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 08:20:24 ago (+3/-0)

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[ - ] Broc_Liath 4 points 3.9 yearsMay 24, 2021 05:48:03 ago (+4/-0)

I stopped buying stuff from GW when they released 8th edition barely a few years after 7th and wanted everyone to buy new rulebooks.

Their game is such a massive scam, you have to buy "indexes" (which come out first). Those were supposed to be the only book you need, but then they changed their mind and you also need the big rulebook which is separate, and to be competitive you also need the codices whenever they come out (which was supposed to be replaced by the cheaper indexes).

Someone worked it out once in 7th and you have to buy something like €4000 worth of books and magazines just to have a copy of the rules for their game (which no one does, but you still need a copy of the rules you're using to play in a tournament).

And that's not even getting into the markup on the models. Plastic injection molding has a marginal cost of less than a cent per sprue, but they happily charge €50+ for a box of ten infantry. Some of their models cost hundreds of euros, most of which is pure profit for them, and they openly rejig the rules on one of the factions every few months to force everyone to buy the less popular models.

"You thought your X10 power xenoblasters were good? Well I hope you like mongolmunchers becaused they're X20 now and everyone else is going to have X20 so you need them too!"

It's pure and unadultrated consoooomerism.