WD stopping?

[Flame of Udun]

Interesting, if the rumoured hobby focus includes more terrain building articles and stuff like that Warhammer Visions could be really great.

You mean the way White Dwarf used to be before it got dumbed down in to the "big text and even bigger pictures" format that its had turned into? The revamp had so much promise but made it even worse and if they are going to ask £7.50 a month then frankly it needs to be seriously content heavy and I mean new art, stories, conversions, how to's, proper painting guides and not the "painting by numbers poop" they currently churn out. The only article that I ever really bothered with in the revamped WD was the Blanchitsu section.

I really don't see why White Dwarf should be canned its just need some serious hobby investment, less catalogue and more content. Something that shows they, aka the people in charge of the company, have more interest in expanding the hobbyverse that GW had built and less in lining their own fat pockets. From what I have seen put out over the last few years it seems as though GW wants the money with little of the effort.

[DrLove42]

I don't see why they don't just keep the name on a new format. WD is name that is tied to hobby from day 1.

[Psychosplodge]

I'd imagine because they promised so much and delivered so little on the last revamp?

[Herzlos]

I sometimes read the WD reviews on the Tales of Painters blog. They always heartily recommend that everyone pick up White Dwarf every month, but after looking at what they say it contains, it always looks really underwhelming.

It makes a lot more sense when you realise that the autor from Tale Of Painters has had his army featured in WD a couple of times (and got a bit of a slating over the coverage). But I've also seen the review's seemingly incredibly positive whilst highlighting how little content is there.

For the new one; I'll no doubt ignore most of the weeklies (I'll find out about the releases pretty quickly anyway) and I'll have a flick through the Visions, but if it's mostly pictures of armies and the pretend hobby articles (kitbash, paint splatter and JJ) I won't be buying.

[Serenapth]

Where have GW announced this? If you check the website, they are still offering 12 month subscription!!!

[Mr Mystery]

Confirmed in store.

Seems they have the scoop, with web announcement to follow at some point.

[odinsgrandson]

Yeah I think that's exactly what we'll get. Just look at how Forgeworld do their releases, granted most of them are Space Marines but every now and then you get something totally random like a Warhammer monster, or the Tau R'varna released. And it works, I know I'm always interested to see each Friday (and sometimes Tuesdays too) what Forgeworld will release next. Now imagine that but with plastic kits and the rules to support them in that weeks WD.

Yeah... I kind of doubt there will be rules content. To me, it really sounds like more of the same thing we've been getting from WD- a lot of great pictures for their minis, but really it is a rather expensive ad.

Maybe I'm jaded, but I feel like the rules content has only trended in a less direction in the twenty years I've been following White Dwarf.

They could (and maybe even should) use this opportunity to turn that around. But that doesn't seem to be a part of the rumor itself, so I do not have any real hope that they're going to start bringing back the old WD that I used to love.

[Mr Mystery]

To sum up what I've been told so far (I stop short of saying what I know, as although I have no reason to doubt my local store staff, bits may be misconstrued).

WD is going weekly, as are releases. Kicks off 1st February 2014. This magazine will focus on the releases.

Warhammer Visions is the new monthly mag. 100 additional pages, and hobby article based, set to include stuff like Blanchitsu, Standard Bearer, Reader's Armies, Paintsplatter, 'Eavy Metal et al. Seems this will be largely internal advertising free.

Rules content? Who knows. Given their push to rapidly release stuff, quite possibly not. After all, why charge £7.50 for rules in a mag which will be around for a month, when you can charge £20/£30 for a hardback book which is permanently available.

Though hey, the magazines are designed to sell. If you want to see it, ask for it. By no means guarantees they'll put it in, but it will show a demand that could be met far better than comments on a forum ever will

[Psychosplodge]

Then give us that at sub £5 and we'll all be happy again

[Wildeybeast]

Here's the thing that's puzzling me: why do GW think anyone is going to pay money for a weekly mag of releases? That stuff is freely available on the website at the same time WD is released. Everything else that is 'hobby related' such as

stuff like Blanchitsu, Standard Bearer, Reader's Armies, Paintsplatter, 'Eavy Metal et al. Seems this will be largely internal advertising free.

will be in 'visions' and that is basically the interesting stuff.

The releases section is just pictures, a tiny bit of fluff and some gumph about how amazing the kits are. How does that constitute a £2.50 weekly magazine? Unless there is detailed 'behind the scenes' stuff on the design process and some extra content like rules, a mag consisting of advertising (which is free on the website) and some bat reps is going to die on its arse. Unless there is more to it than we know, this seems extraordinarily badly thought out.