"The New Chapter Approved 2019 is coming" Topic

"This year's gaming annual doesn't just have points and content for gaming groups – it's packed with optional narrative rules that offer new ways to play and new ways to connect your games.

These days, how you experience the 41st Millennium is really up to you. If you love the adventures of First Claw in the Night Lords trilogy, or the exploits of Gaunt's Ghosts, you've got Kill Team. On the other end of the spectrum, Apocalypse caters for the most earth-shattering conflicts in the galaxy. But what if you could put it all together?…."

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Amicalement
Armand

GW's annual "Ok, we admit we screwed up these rules the first time so pay us another $35 USD and we'll fix them!"

Only a temporary fix, I assure you.

Tournament play emphasis and endless tweaks and balancing changes. The current obsession with competitive play (in all forms of gaming) is truly regrettable.

Glup!….

Amicalement
Armand

Be still my thundering pulses…..yawn….

well haters will always hate

Come on Jim, hating GW is a fun past time. I've been doing it for 42 years (mostly with my pocketbook).

It's nothing about hating them. It's just their poor business model, in regards to the cash strapped masses. Or those who like metal Minis, things not to be overly (and, as suggested above, endlessly) refined, so on and on. Just because someone has an issue with something, doesn't mean they hate it. That's just what people say to make mountainous enemies out of slightly annoyed molehills.

A $35 USD book that collects the rules articles from 12 months of WD (at something like $8 USD an issue) and puts them in one convenient place sounds like a useful offering – if you are playing "modern" 40k regularly.

if GW isn't to your liking why comment on it?

There are lots of periods I do not like but I don't make negative posts everytime someone posts about them

Jim, I've been playing 40k and other GW related games since '87. I sink about 5k into their products each year.

I figure that gives me the right to grumble about their silly business practices. That doesn't mean they arent to my liking. On the contrary, I bought the 2018 Chapter approved, though I never got any use out of it.

In my case, and I suspect in many others, it's nothing more than good natured ribbing.

"if GW isn't to your liking why comment on it?"

I think that sentence says it all. (As in, not talking about things won't change things)

Imagine for a moment you buy a new car and you pay the agreed upon new car full price. Then you get the car home and discover that the car is missing a door, missing the alternator, and the hood won't stay closed, so even if the car could start you can't see the road when you drive.

Then you go to complain to the dealership and they tell you they'll gladly add the missing components and fix the hood – for an additional $3,000 USD dollars. After you already paid for what you thought was a complete, new car.

That is what GW annuals are on a smaller scale. Absolute rubbish ripoff.

The same thing is happening in the PC/console gaming industry with "games as a service" being the new Capitalism term which really means "let's sell unfinished, untested, broken buggy games to the consumer base for full price and then sell the customer the fixes and patches as "additional content."

I love GW's miniatures and games generally and continue to love their stuff. But their annuals have always left a bad taste in my mouth as going way too far in service of the maximizing profit motive.