I could get behind this. I love the 40k setting but even if I could forgive myself for spending the absurd amount of money they ask for those books and figurines, I don't know anyone who plays.Why doesn't Games Workshop just make Warhammer Tabletop Online? Isn't Magic The Gathering making a shit ton of money with their online game?
The outlook for the future has been grim for a long ass time and they manage to keep mucking through.they should make a game like skylander or disney infinity and put little chips in all their figures/models
their outlook for the future can not be that bright in the tabletop world.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only decreasing profits.The outlook for the future has been grim for a long ass time and they manage to keep mucking through.
Emphasis on muckingThe outlook for the future has been grim for a long ass time and they manage to keep mucking through.
Yea but it won't matter in the long run for several reason:Isn't GW afraid of a real PC clone of the tabletop game hurting sales?
Except the company is being lead by MBAs instead of people with half a clue. Despite falling demand for tactile hobbies worldwide due to the digital revolution, they've continued on their 'less for more' approach to selling product. There's countless examinations of molding and material costs out there if you want to make your own judgements. The reality is they look at a fixed but extremely loyal fan base and instead of innovating to save the company, they've taken the short term Hail Mary approach of 'well just charge them more!' to continue operations with increased costs and inflation taking its toll.I think GW has done some dumb things, but its really not them being blatant assholes.
Remember, their entire business model is based on the sale of models. They own the entire thing from the making of the models, to the paints, to the tools, to the chain of stores. They have to keep the sale of models and accessories as robust as possible otherwise the whole thing collapses. The tighter their margins, the less likely they are going to be to cut deeper into their own profits by giving people and alternative to the table top game. They are going to have to totally collapse, lay off their factory and distribution people and have nothing left to lose before they do what everyone is clamoring for.
One of the reasons people are so into WH;40k is that it has decades of solid world building behind it, but its business model is also decades old, and they are locked into it.
I know it must be killing the executives though from a profit making standpoint. If they went entirely digital, with micro-transactions for everything from different units to paints for individualizing models to bits for modeling they would absolutely kill it. No overhead, no stores, no expensive equipment, a fraction of the needed employees..
Yeah, it sucks they we dont get the game we want, but it probably keeps a few thousand people employed.