Did the Summer of Sigmar kill interest in 40k?

[grimmas]

I think Erik has a point. To be honest I was thinking recently that may be GW should be making everyone else's plastic miniatures it'd be better than the crap that gets made in China. It'd be an interesting change of direction going more and more down the pure manufacturing root. I have had a sneaking suspicion that the Perry's may have used their production facilities in the past for their stuff(no evidence just being suspicious). Of course I don't think it'd make anything cheaper but we'd all get better quality plastics.

[Defenestratus]

I'm currently kicking myself for not narrowing down the topic on this thread. I don't want it to spiral into yet another "AoS and GW suck!!!" because as much as I'm sympathetic to that viewpoint, I'm also sick of reading about it.

Basically I wanted to know if that 12-week vacation from the rapid fire 40k releases "kill the mood" for you? I can't really tell if it did for me or not because I had a rather significant life event that directly impacted my 40k participation and haven't recovered since - but it seems to me that even from my friends that DIDN'T go through what I did have let off of the "enthusiasm pedal".

[grimmas]

Sorry dude.

I actually like a break now and again it keeps things fresh. I bought AoS and enjoyed the change and when Battle for Calth came out I was keen for that. It all reminds me of when Specialist games were released we'd all play them for 3-6months constantly and then go back to 40K feeling refreshed. I know these days one has to be "Team whatever" but it's not really a lifestyle choice I find I taking time off to play other stuff isn't a bad thing for my hobby rather it keeps it fresher. Let's face it as has been mentioned there were ALOT of 40K releases at the start of the year so the summer of Sigmar came as a welcome change for me.

[Erik Setzer]

It's hard for me to say if it would have affected my game playing much. I've been trying to be a good friend to someone, and he doesn't want to play GW games, so I haven't been doing that either. But when I run into people elsewhere, they're talking about just dropping 40K, too, and more people getting into other games, so I might just drift into them.

Then again, I did buy two sets of Betrayal at Calth. (Sadly, only got a handful of models assembled so far. But hey, it's practically an army, and I have so many other projects I want to work on, too.)

[Captain Bubonicus]

I'm currently kicking myself for not narrowing down the topic on this thread. I don't want it to spiral into yet another "AoS and GW suck!!!" because as much as I'm sympathetic to that viewpoint, I'm also sick of reading about it.

Basically I wanted to know if that 12-week vacation from the rapid fire 40k releases "kill the mood" for you? I can't really tell if it did for me or not because I had a rather significant life event that directly impacted my 40k participation and haven't recovered since - but it seems to me that even from my friends that DIDN'T go through what I did have let off of the "enthusiasm pedal".

My mood has indeed been killed, but it wasn't the ebb in releases that did it. I won't rant about AoS and WHFB here - but that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I've begrudgingly moved on and found an "oldhammer" group on Facebook that proudly shows off their old miniatures from when I last really, truly enjoyed the hobby...those ugly but characterful Rogue-Trader and 2nd Edition miniatures that look shoddy compared to the modern stuff but to me represent the "glory days" of 40k. So I guess now I'm just a hobby hermit, staring into his own navel and wistfully yearning for the old days of deodorant stick tanks and "Space Slann."

[Caitsidhe]

I'm currently kicking myself for not narrowing down the topic on this thread. I don't want it to spiral into yet another "AoS and GW suck!!!" because as much as I'm sympathetic to that viewpoint, I'm also sick of reading about it.

Basically I wanted to know if that 12-week vacation from the rapid fire 40k releases "kill the mood" for you? I can't really tell if it did for me or not because I had a rather significant life event that directly impacted my 40k participation and haven't recovered since - but it seems to me that even from my friends that DIDN'T go through what I did have let off of the "enthusiasm pedal".

You are in Portland? Sheesh. I'm in Bangor. I didn't notice any particular negative effect in the break in releases for 40K, but then again... I think it is tournaments that drive interest. People who just play at their own houses among friends aren't really impacted by a lull in releases unless it is much longer. The biggest effect I see on 40K is whether or not there are tournaments or pick up games to be had.

[artisturn]

There is only one game store in Santa Fe,NM and it going strong,but it is Magic and then 40k that keeps the doors open.

Fantasy has been a non entity since the store opened and what small group we had imploded with The Old World, most of the group has switched over to Bolt Action.

[Caitsidhe]

There is only one game store in Santa Fe,NM and it going strong,but it is Magic and then 40k that keeps the doors open.

Fantasy has been a non entity since the store opened and what small group we had imploded with The Old World, most of the group has switched over to Bolt Action.

Right prior to my move from Texas (and before AOS) that was the case there too. Bolt Action was replacing 40K with all the old guard.

[Tomgar]

I've personally been starting to drift away from 40k but it's nothing to do with AoS (much as I hate it) or a break in 40k releases. It's kind of the opposite, in fact. I feel they've been releasing too much and it's magnifying their historic issues with balance and power creep. I'm just not having fun now because my main opponents play armies like AdMech or Eldar that just blast me and everyone else with an older army off the table in two turns. I feel that GW have no idea how to handle the game any more so they're basically chucking increasingly broken formations and giant centrepiece models at the problem, hoping it'll go away.

I'm also feeling just a general lack of care. See the debacle with the FAQs, taking months and months to release FAQs that, in many cases, are identical to their old versions and very rarely actually answer the questions we've been asking. Gee, thanks. See also the new Codexes (Dark Angels were especially bad for this) which, instead of containing exquisite artwork and in-depth fluff, have this awful cartoony art and replace much of the fluff with a short bit of writing about each individual unit entry. Because I really care how heroic and grim generic Space Marine no.3854 is.

This has just made me less and less interested in talking about 40k. Why talk about a game that I haven't found fun since early 6th edition? If it didn't give me an excuse to meet my buddies and if I hadn't invested so much money in it, I'd probably just give my models to the charity shop and stick to video games.

Basically I, personally, have no real answer to your question. Just a nagging feeling that 40k is somehow... Worse. Just generally worse than it was a while ago. And that's what's sapped my interest in posting on forums.

[40kGamer]

The rapid fire codex rewrites caused me to hit the pause button hard with 40k. Plus there are so many games/systems/products out now that the local sci-fi fantasy community is as fragmented as the historical one tends to be. At the moment I'm enjoying putting some GW WFB figs on the table for Frostgrave... Quite a fun little beer and pretzel, Mordheim-like game.