Now that Age of Sigmar is being given Last Rites, what is GW's next move?
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Now that Age of Sigmar is being given Last Rites, what is GW's next move?
Now that Age of Sigmar is being given Last Rites, what is GW's next move?
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Primaris are next
GW will apologize and go back to the old days. No narrative progression, grogs win, Black library is shunted, mk.7 marines are updated, primarchs are gone.
We are back grog bros
>GW is going to remove models that sell after removing models that don't sell
based moron
>GW is gonna force you to re-buy your army, yet again
FTFY
Nobody has forced anybody to rebuy their Space Marine army. You can still field the basic Tactical Marines, shitty as they are.
>No narrative progression
Oh God please no not again
people are shocked and crying stormcasts are getting fricked yet no one likes them thats why they are doing this
The only thing that genuinly suprised people was second edition Stormcast getting purged.
Everybody knew first edition stormcast was getting replaced since the new game came out.
>Primarchs are gone
You would cause PTSD on all those fricks who grew up without a dad and now are attached to primarch to fill in the void.
No.
Primaris were introduced for the same reason everything is pushed back into wfb. The corporates demands separate, non inter-usable, entries for every games.
At best you'll get a HH kit or a sprue of Mk7 helmets
>what is GW's next move?
AoS 4th edition, sorry you had to find out that way
A stagnant setting is a shit setting.
>Might as well ask why the WW2 setti g never progresses past 1945
It's why nobody gives a frick about historicals other than weird freaks like me.
>stagnant
You have 10k years to make up stories.
>You have 10k years to make up stories.
That don't matter because the setting is stagnant.
Prequels are shit.
Well now you get Primarchs alive and lore rape.
>Primarchs alive
Good.
>lore rape.
Already happened when moving from Rogue trader to second edition.
LOTR is in a weird spot, kind of similar to historical games where it's basically just a historical reenactment club.
>Primarchs alive
>Good.
Never fricking (you) me again. Pleb.
Either they should have 1: Confirmed they were dead. 2: Always have them be around.
The old "They MIGHT come back" bullshit was dumb and tedious and I hate it. If I wanted a setting that was nothing but "Interesting stuff might happen someday" I would go back to /jp/.
Well gays like you are why we have Primaris Marines.
Thanks.
Like I Said, they should have shit or get off the pot.
Guiliman should have always been 100% dead.
>1: Confirmed they were dead.
Eh, with the Loyalist Primarchs it feels like the intention was that they were definitely dead and the stories of them returning were variations on the king asleep in mountain myth. It's absolutely the kind of superstitious myth you would see running around in the collapsing semi-medieval Imperium of 40k.
Also I imagine Gorillaman was supposed to be dead in his stasis field instead of preserved moments before death but that's an easy retcon to make.
Completely different story with the Traitor Primarchs, the Chaos God aligned Daemon Primarchs had Epic Models and as soon as GW saw there was a market for giant plastic models with the Baneblade we started getting Daemon Primarchs designed and produced.
>with the Loyalist Primarchs it feels like the intention was that they were definitely dead and the stories of them returning were variations on the king asleep in mountain myth.
I think you can read it like that, but I think it's undermined by the fact a lot of them just kind of fricked off rather than actually died.
>Completely different story with the Traitor Primarchs, the Chaos God aligned Daemon Primarchs had Epic Models and as soon as GW saw there was a market for giant plastic models with the Baneblade we started getting Daemon Primarchs designed and produced.
I can actually see some appeal to only Traitor Primarchs still being around.
>Eh, with the Loyalist Primarchs it feels like the intention was that they were definitely dead
Nah I forget exactly when they did it but they retconed Dorn from being inarguably dead to just missing at least 10 if not 15 years before they started making primarchs for 40k, in retrospect I think bringing back primarchs was something they wanted to have as a panic button
Have a (You) fellow history autist
>A stagnant setting is a shit setting.
People seem to like LotR
LotR isn't stagnant in the same sense as WFB/W40K. All the settings have a timeline lasting several thousand years but LotR have all its history culminating a single meta-event resolving all issues. It's a perfectly self-contained story with a start and an ending like the fairy tales Tolkien loved so much. Up to the publication of The End Times GW had no intention to give either of its settings such a resolution
NTA. It's a whole fricking galaxy. They could tell thousand stories without changing a date.
>A stagnant setting is a shit setting.
The mistake GW made with 40k was writing almost everything to be happening in the last year of M41. I know the '5 minutes to midnight' thing was integral to the setting, but they barely bothered to explore anything that happened more than 100 years prior to that date. They wrote themselves into a position where more and more climactic events involving every single founding chapter contributing every company was involved and people were getting tired of it. 40k should have taken in the last thousand years and given themselves much more to work with, with spinoffs for the Age of Apostasy etc.
Every setting that tried failed. Look at Konflict 47
>Setting meta-plots are Marvel
Why has this particular brainworm infected /tg/'s 40kgays so much? Like Battletech or WoD fans may complain about events of the metaplot but you don't see them constantly whining about the existence of one.
>Why has this particular brainworm infected /tg/'s 40kgays so much?
1: Trauma from the End Times. 2: People actually buying into the "Forge your narrative" crap.
it was bad for those games too, you don't hear them as much because they're less popular and already american though
>it was bad for those games too
what's bad about it? Runequest and Pathfinder have metaplots too, like PF 2e assumes all published campaigns were completed with good endings and I've never seen the vitriolic hatred for either that 40k's metaplot gets from Primaris haters.
WoD is bypassed by the current times, which are already worse than the gothic-punk dark alternate world it is supposed to be set in
>what is GW's next move?
Declare nu40k non-canon. Primaris and the rift were a fever dream. The 13th BC is still ongoing. No primarchs running around.
This but also all the dumb HH lore that came before that too
Getting bought by some holding company and scrapped shortly after
Are they finally ending AoS?
No, they're about to release a new edition.
I wish they did rather than this fricking dickheaded move.
Who's next IDK, fyreslayers?
Beasts of Chaos (Beastmen) are being squatted from AoS, and relegated to ToW only. The writing was on the wall for that one since they have only had 1 (one) new mini, the new beastlord, in all of AoS.
Bonesplitterz (savage orcs) same as above but also note they got ZERO new minis through all of AoS.
The various chaos cults from the 1st edition of Warcry are being squatted from AoS and restricted to Warcry only. The new Darkoath units are their replacement as scrub mortal units for Slaves to Darkness. All the other Warcry warbands for other factions are still around.
Skaven are having a bunch of their range put on last chance to buy which is not at all surprising because they're having a range update in the coming edition.
Stormcast had a BUNCH of shit cut. Much of it was sensible, like old 1st edition fatcast units that are just gonna get updated to the new armor style that came with 3rd. But basically their entire 2nd edition (Sacrosanct Chamber) release ALSO got largely blammed which is the really surprising part. Either they are revamping much more of the Stormcast range than was first assumed, or all the people who jumped on in 2nd are fricked.
TL;DR they squatted a bunch of shit for the upcoming 4th edition. Some justified, some less so.
GW's next move is to buy an ad.
>next move
Eternally cycle settings and variations on nothing like Coca-Cola cans to keep selling different flavors of nostalgia. AoS got 10+ years, they've already planted seeds to harvest later for a release of vintage storm cast. ToW will get cycled out after sales drop and it will go back and forth for as long as morons keep paying GW for either.
The Arks of Omen of storyline was finally gonna reveal to us more details about the Old Ones, their technology and their origin.
Revealing the story of the ancient aliens NEVER turns out interesting.
>Halo
>Aliens
based. settings like historicals or battletech are comfy because they are so fleshed out (everyone just ignores the ongoing ilkhan stuff lol). i'd rather gw flesh out the past than keep making half-assed new lore.
>everyone just ignores the ongoing ilkhan stuff lol
Battletech has one of the most progressed stories in wargames. Literally every boomer battletech player has a cutoff line for where they ruined it and they ignore the canon. Don't pretend dark age was less controversial than all this.
NTA but everyone at my shop just plays up to the clan invasion era and nothing beyond it. Nobody who plays there cares what the current writers are doing and the rulebook hasn't changed since the 80s anyway.
This, not sure why fricking homosexuals need there to be a universe level "story."
You play the story with your playgroup you dumb homosexuals
Slide back into being an unusually successful business in a niche industry. They didn't actually earn the growth they've experienced, so when the trends change, all the hipsters buying product will wander away and leave GW with a massively overexpanded supply chain and segregated product lines they cannot support.
Just imagine how funny it will be when the Beastmen release for TOW and it has more new models in its line than they got in the entirety of their time in AoS.
oh lmfao its gonna happen too
>and it has more new models in its line than they got in the entirety of their time in AoS
And still no one will play them.
Going by Orcs, I would be surprised if they get one new model.
Are you kidding, they're going to use the single plastic hero AoS gave them as an excuse to give Beasts nothing when they launch
True. They'll get at least two new resin kits and some MTO. Jesus Christ
I’m tempted to buy the vanguard set and then just put them on square bases knowing the same set will be released but at twice the value for TOW
AoS 4 fails. People loose trust in GW.
GW in full sperg mode double down and start rotating space marine units regularly to keep things 'fresh'. Community has a conniption and decides finally to make their own better open source system and somehow the big tournaments change over. GW crashes and burns like the thunder hawk I'm going to drive tomorrow into terra