Due to the increased cost of tin it is very likely that if GW ever does anything with Necromunda or Blood Bowl again, then it'll be plastic. They've done quite a lot to change a lot of units in 40k, WFB and LOTR into plastic.
However, it's also very expensive to even start a plastic production, so it's more likely that the specialist games are dead.
GW is now a company for the mainstream audience. This is easy to observe when entering Dragon's Lair (which has also gone mainstream) and seeing small kids buying LOTR because they look cool.
Personally I have a lot more faith in all the other miniature companies out there selling systems like Warmachine, Hordes, Confrontation and Infinity. Systems which are new and up to date and with companies which know that they have to appease their fans or they wont sell.
True dat. Would be a nice change if GW starting acting like a hobby firm again. Ah, well a man can dream, a man can dream.
But until then there are other companies that does act like that. So it's really GW's loss. But you sound like you are, after all, too happy with GW's games to look elsewhere.
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However, it's also very expensive to even start a plastic production, so it's more likely that the specialist games are dead.
GW is now a company for the mainstream audience. This is easy to observe when entering Dragon's Lair (which has also gone mainstream) and seeing small kids buying LOTR because they look cool.
Personally I have a lot more faith in all the other miniature companies out there selling systems like Warmachine, Hordes, Confrontation and Infinity. Systems which are new and up to date and with companies which know that they have to appease their fans or they wont sell.
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Try and read the post again; it's not a hope for the future, it's mental musings about what I'd do if I say so in GW
and I don't really care about the other miniature games, I have no use for them, unless I can use them for coversions.
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But until then there are other companies that does act like that. So it's really GW's loss. But you sound like you are, after all, too happy with GW's games to look elsewhere.
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