GW Business Analysis Video (MUST SEE)

[Bigred]

OH Boy - these are going to be popular.

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsVtZ8SRClYf4tPzy8HjNtA"]via BuyPainted[/URL]
Be sure to watch all of the 3rd video:








We are all eagerly awaiting the next installment...

Also, I have added the poll to get the BoLS readers opinion whether GW miniatures are for collectors or gamers.

[40kGamer]

Very reasonable video set. Not pure doom and gloom just that current policies will ultimately lead to doom and gloom. Can't say that I disagree.

[DWest]

I said "yes" to the poll question, but with a major caveat-- I'm buying only the models right now anyway, as 7th edition has been so sloppy that the local playerbase has either moved on or uses a set of house rules so extensive that the official rulebook doesn't even show up at the table anymore.

Wishful thinking, I know, but could we get ForgeWorld to stage a takeover of the actual rules side of the business?

[bravofour]

Owning several armies that have nothing to do with GW, but other systems, I can honestly say once the rules disappeared I quit buying. (Void for example) sure I bought the odd piece after the rules vanished, but that was more to finish up a squad, in the hopes that one day I'd be able to dust them off and use them again.
I also own a butt load of historical miniatures from many different manufactures. The advantage to historical is that they can be used for many different game systems. In the case of GW, fantasy might be able to pull this system jump off, but it would be situational at best. In the case of 40k the miniatures are so specific to the 40k universe that no other rule set could use them. With the lack of ability to use them to tell a story on the table, or support the the 40k universe as a whole the model line would die. My case in point for this would be Squats. Once they were removed, you had a few die yards that continue to collect them, but the majority of players simply moved on. If the rule system dies, we as a group would abandon the model line as well. Sure you'd have a few die hards, but not enough to support a company like GW.

[Christopher Szynkowski]

With very few and small exceptions (mostly to use for dnd) my answer is an absolute no. I am a gamer first, collector second. The entire draw for me getting into 40k was the fact that these were models that you could do something with other then paint and put on a shelf.

[Houghten]

I've bought multiple models I have no intention of using in-game, but if I wasn't going to use any of my models in-game then I'd go back to Revell kits.

As to the videos: too video; didn't watch