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For those not in the know the company in question is going to be Games Workshop. "Revenge" is also the wrong word for this. I'd suggest schadenfreude.
by cmdkeen 11y ago
For those not in the know the company in question is going to be Games Workshop.
"Revenge" is also the wrong word for this. I'd suggest schadenfreude.
- noir_lord 11y agoUsed to have friends who liked Warhammer stuff apparently they are a pretty awful company to deal with though.
- ceejayoz 11y agoThey've gotta be terrified of the rise of 3D printers.
- elthran 11y agoLikely not - they'll either have their heads in the sand pretending they don't exist, or claim that they invented 3D printers themselves, and give it a faux-latin name so they can trademark it...
- herge 11y agoEh, most of their lucrative customers want to play in stores or compete in official painting competitions, etc, which only accept Games Workshop products. Arguably you can already play Warhammer 40k with any bits of plastic, but you still need the printed codexes and the setting, which is controlled by GW.
- Sephiroth87 11y agoWell, I don't think it'll be too long since printed one will be undihstiguishible from the real thing...
- jacquesm 11y agoI think you're wrong on that count.
- Kratisto 11y agoI think it would be really cool if a community formed to crowd source their own game. Have people work together on the rules, lore, and model design. That way anyone with access to a 3d printer could just print their own army.
- jonesb6 11y agoAren't board games some what popular on kick starter, and don't they have a pretty bad history of abuse/fraud/mismanagement/underperformance?
- lmm 11y ago> Aren't board games some what popular on kick starter Yes, very much so, and miniatures games (not really the same thing) also. > don't they have a pretty bad history of abuse/fraud/mismanagement/underperformance? No? At least not by Kickstarter standards. The category has a much better track record than computer games or new hardware gadgets.
- lmm 11y ago3d printers are great for quick prototyping but they can't do the fine detail of proper sculptured/cast models which if you care about miniature gaming is presumably the point. (I mean there are people who play non-miniature wargames but it's not a big market). As for lore, I dread to think of the fights - shared-universe fiction efforts don't tend to go well.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> 3d printers are great for quick prototyping but they can't do the fine detail of proper sculptured/cast models which if you care about miniature gaming is presumably the point. If you care about miniature collecting that's the point, and because of the willingness of collectors to pay for that, most miniatures gaming companies cater to collectors. I think a lot of people into miniatures gaming prefer the three-dimensionalty (and, for free-movement games) freedom of miniatures as compared to other alternatives (e.g., gridded boards) and would be happy with distinguishable-but-less-detailed models.
- lmm 11y ago> Arguably you can already play Warhammer 40k with any bits of plastic, but you still need the printed codexes and the setting, which is controlled by GW. GW today think of themselves as a model company. They neglect game design (e.g. they won't pay for experienced designers) and rule QA. If anything I'd expect to see people playing other rulesets with GW models (they still make better models than many of their competitors).
- mattmanser 11y agoThey seem to be betting on selling more models, the opposite of what you'd think they'd be betting on: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/03/rick-priestley-talks-games-workshop.html http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/03/rick-priestley-talks-...