Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 10:26 am
So I decided to finally make a thread about gaming for true gentlemen, with paper, dice and loads of plastic men, to further diversify our esteemed forum. I'll try to stick to topics that might be interesting for a general audience that likes a good kek or two.
Games Workshop Strikes Again
For those of you who don't know, GW is the company behind Warhammer (be it Fantasy or 40k. Also Age of Sigmar I guess.). They're kinda the EA of the wargaming world, with questionable business practices, toxic customer relations and plenty of blunders. I think my favorite one is that they have decided to not mention the writers of their books anywhere, out of fear that it might hurt sales to attach one of their many infamous writers (all legendary in their ability to fuck up both fluff and rules) to one of their new products.
They've tried to be a bit nicer in the past years, but it has all come crashing down once again.
Basically they have decided to enter the streaming market, no doubt to further milk their audience. Unfortunately this would put them in direct competition to many creators of fan animation (which they have mostly ignored in the past thanks to the free publicity they produce). So now the fan animation has to go.
To make this even better, they have effectively forced fan animators to either take the knee and produce content for their new service (effectively hiding once free content behind a paywall), or to take a C&D up the arse.
Thankfully there are still mirrors around. For now.
The fanbase ain't exactly taking this lightly, and some animators have protested in their own way. The bloke behind the popular If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device for example has put his series on an indefinite hiatus.
Games Workshop Strikes Again
For those of you who don't know, GW is the company behind Warhammer (be it Fantasy or 40k. Also Age of Sigmar I guess.). They're kinda the EA of the wargaming world, with questionable business practices, toxic customer relations and plenty of blunders. I think my favorite one is that they have decided to not mention the writers of their books anywhere, out of fear that it might hurt sales to attach one of their many infamous writers (all legendary in their ability to fuck up both fluff and rules) to one of their new products.
They've tried to be a bit nicer in the past years, but it has all come crashing down once again.
Basically they have decided to enter the streaming market, no doubt to further milk their audience. Unfortunately this would put them in direct competition to many creators of fan animation (which they have mostly ignored in the past thanks to the free publicity they produce). So now the fan animation has to go.
To make this even better, they have effectively forced fan animators to either take the knee and produce content for their new service (effectively hiding once free content behind a paywall), or to take a C&D up the arse.
Thankfully there are still mirrors around. For now.
The fanbase ain't exactly taking this lightly, and some animators have protested in their own way. The bloke behind the popular If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device for example has put his series on an indefinite hiatus.