Red_Rob wrote:Warhammer has never been as big a money spinner for GW as 40K. GW has a history of ditching everything but the absolute biggest selling lines regardless of fan interest (see Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Gothic, Warmaster and all their other Specialist Games lines). It was only a matter of time before they decided to axe Warhammer and try to make it into another 40K. The timing seems strange seeing as they just announced
Total Warhammer which seems like it will be using the old background. Way to alienate fans and waste a potentially huge cross marketing campaign!
To be a bit fair, Total Warhammer has probably been in the works for years now, while Sigmar Marines is a desesperate last-minute move. The video game designers probably had no idea there would be such a retcon and GW never cared much about what video games do with their lore.
Or must I point out Dawn of War where you get to sacrifice necron souls to gain the favor of a greater daemon?
Or Dawn of War 2 Retribution where half a dozen orks can bring to ruin a whole chapter?
Red_Rob wrote:
GW has been always creatively bankrupt for a long time now.
Fixed that for you. They were never creactive, they just glued things together (fantasy+guns, then fantasy+guns+IN SPACE) and hoped it sticked together.
Red_Rob wrote:
I predict this will flop within a year and GW will strip down to ALL 40K SPEECH MERINES, FINAL DESTINATION. It's the way they've been heading for a while.
Fixed that for you as well. After the loyalist SM got to wield daemon weapons and summon daemons no problem and their own cost-efficient titans, I predict it's only a matter of time until the other factions
stolen from some from other media "created" by GW are assimilated into speech merines of one kind of another.
-Speech merines riding carnifexes and squigoths.
-Speech merines wielding Skaven arcanotech.
-Speech merines with superior living metal armor.
-Speech merines riding giant eagles and summoning forest spirits.
-Speech merines with soulstones and ancient eldar weapons.
-Speech merines commanding the unholy legions of the dead.
-Speech merines inside speech merines-
Wait, they already did that as well.