"Is it true Rick Priestly has left Games workshop?" Topic

Rick probably was offered 'early retirement,' if I had to venture a guess. He's a venerable elder statesman in GW lore, but GW has been infusing itself with young blood for some years. I don't know to what extent Rick was still a major player in games development.

I'm sorry to see him go, and Jervis too when his time comes.

Surely Eldar statesman lol

"Man leaves job in company – shock"

£126.51 GBP Million turnover doesn't seem that small to me. Certainly more than that fella with the cofee shop :-)

Ah you can make real money selling coffee:

PLANS for world domination continued apace last year as Starbucks UK sales rocketed 20% to £244.2m – equivalent to 136m tall, skinny lattes.

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And thats in 2006 (and roughly double GW sales)

GW is a multinational. They have branches in multiple countries, with both production and content generators in multiple countries.

That's the definition of a multinational corporation. They are a small one, however. Certainly smaller than Micron or HP, both in employees and in cashflow.

On a different note, what has Andy Chambers been up to?

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There he is (last August). Lead writer of StarCraftII.

"look at D&D, you'd hardly know that Gary Gygax had anything to do with it anymore."

Unless he's holding planchette conferences, he hasn't.

Bryan Ansell's accent was pretty clear the couple of chats I had with him?

Wild speculation:

The announcement that GW is closing up Warhammer Historicals, following on the heels of Rick's leaving, coupled with the success of Black Powder suggests that Rick has struck a deal to depart GW and take the historical gaming with him.

His interests, if we go by what we see in Black Powder, are all historicals now. He also seems to be working in close collaboration with (read often gaming with) the Perry twins who are likewise embracing historicals and not looking back to fantasy from whence they came.

Also, Rick is not standing still, unlike GW & Warhammer. A true game designer can't. He keeps wanting to explore new mechanics and ideas and eras.

That said, he would know how much of a push there is for people wanting to take Black Powder variants into LOTR and Fantasy. Black Powder itself had no conflict of interest with anything put out by GW. Black Powder expansions and variants would. He had to leave in order to grow or there would be conflict of interest.