To interesting times

[Wolfshade]

There is something different about GW of today compared with even last year. We saw hints of this like the short lived "Eddie" on Facebook.
A character that seemed to be widely embraced by the community but almost as soon as it was up, it was closed back down followed by a withdraw of GW from the social media platform, other than just a standard one-directional method of pushing the information out.

Then we started to see hints of personality emerging, reminding some commentators of the GW of old breaking with the clinical faceless GW-corp, with the emergence of the [url=https://regimental-standard.com/]Regimental Standard[/url].

Then we had the big FAQ collaboration. GW asking for clarifications and FAQs from the community then publishing draft versions of them on Facebook for people to read and respond to them. Acknowledging other groups inputs such as the Las Vegas Open tournament team. The recognition of this tournament is something different, for those gamers outside of the UK there are no official tournaments and GW did little to support or even acknowledge their existence. [For those in the UK, they will see the regular tournaments held out of Warhammer World], then announcing that the community team would be at adepticon, which is a not a GW-only tournament, engaging in tournaments that they aren't hosting and aren't GW-only is a major step change.

Now we have [url="https://www.warhammer-community.com/"]Warhammer Community[/url]. While this is far from being the vibrant two-way conversation that we see on various fora (such as this) with gamers able to talk openly about their hobby, share their projects raising questions etc. But we are in early days, will we see it having a discussion board? If they do how will it respond to criticism, engagement or shutting down? Certianly, how it handles this will certainly set the tone of whether this a full change or a halfway engagement.

Then the wonderful Warhammer TV, indeed it was the Black XL which compelled me to write this post, then thinking of it I am reminded of the plastic primarch bin incident.


It all looks quite positive and a well thought out engagement with the community, showing the sorts of personality we've not seen since Fat Bloke.

Will this new direction be to everyone's liking? No, you can't please all the people all of them time, but I for one am enjoying this ride as it continues.