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[spazyak]

He no longer works there? YAY OUR LORE IS SAVED!

[UXLZ]

Isn't C.S Goto still there, though?

[Loud Whispers]

He no longer works there? YAY OUR LORE IS SAVED!

Well they managed to kill fantasy without Ward, so there is someone even worse still working for GW

[UXLZ]

For your viewing displeasure

[Tack]

No they sent ward to fantasy and then shuffled him out after that.

[TempAcc]

Cheer up people, there's still some things to be happy about.

[Dorsidwarf]

Cheer up people, there's still some things to be happy about.

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I was expecting a "Nope not really" the whole time and he managed to never say it. That was the tensest thing I read all day, somehow.

[Loud Whispers]

Oh hey they extended Slaanesh patrol

[nenjin]

For your viewing displeasure

Goddamnit 1d4chan, you did it to me again.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Honestly the state of GWS is much like that of the Imperium itself... Only when the last breath passes from its putrid rotting body will 40k be reborn anew, all shiny and chrome... Er, something like that.

[Kot]

This is a good comparison. GWS dies, 40k either is better or... turns into horrendous mess when some company that has no idea what to do inherits Wh40k. Though, tbh, they would have to be really bad to beat GW.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

This is a good comparison. GWS dies, 40k either is better or... turns into horrendous mess when some company that has no idea what to do inherits Wh40k. Though, tbh, they would have to be really bad to beat GW.

I mean 40k is a big IP and its got high-potential too, give it to most any company and it'll be much better than it is now.

[nenjin]

This is a good comparison. GWS dies, 40k either is better or... turns into horrendous mess when some company that has no idea what to do inherits Wh40k. Though, tbh, they would have to be really bad to beat GW.

I mean 40k is a big IP and its got high-potential too, give it to most any company and it'll be much better than it is now.

.....no.

GWS is a big IP of a different age. That's why so many people still play it, read it, enjoy it....because it's stayed relatively timeless. Oh sure, they added Tau and WHF is starting to get stupid. But 40k has insulated itself from a lot of what's become modern and popular, and refused to really change more than just the story. It's a strength of the IP and a weakness.

Giving it to a new company with a motivation to make it popular again would entail changing half of what GWS has intentionally kept static. New themes would be introduced (love, fun, happiness, sex, new races to fit someone's marketing agenda, an alternative to grimdark that some dork has been begging for for years so canon will reflect their fanfic.) There are few to no companies I would feel comfortable taking on 40k, and fewer still I think would actually do it justice or understand what's made it work in the past. Selling 40k would be about what's good for shareholders on both sides, not what's good for the IP. You can already see this happening in the way being licensed out for video games.

[Tack]

[But 40k has insulated itself from a lot of what's become modern and popular, and refused to really change more than just the story.

Haahahahahahah. You bring your 4th ed army, and I'll bring my 7th ed army, and we'll see who wins.
Seriously the game has so much power creep they had to invent a new damage value.

[nenjin]

Any game experiences power creep given enough editions. I'm not really talking about mechanically what it has to do to justify a new edition.