So things are heating up, in and around all things Games Workshop. I remember, when said company was free thinking and open. When they looked to outsiders to expand and grow, when money and profit wasn't the be all and end all. When the staff in shops where called "Sales Assistants", then they decided to cash in, They either listened to FAT CATS, or they just got greedy. You could say they gave in to the whisperings of Chaos, Money, for the Money God. The said sales assistants got ironically renamed "Hobby Experts", they became over protective of the products, they stopped people using anything but Games Workshop parts in models for Golden Daemon, the true "Open Category" disappeared.
It gets worse. Now they are trying to stop people using a phrase they didn't invent "Space Marines", How can they you ask, "stop people using a name they don't own the copyright on". It's Simple, they are using MONEY & SCARE TACTICS, this is a disturbing turn of events. It's weird to think that a company so against copyright Nazis (see the pic below, of a white dwarf article), could go one step further and police things they don't even own.
I can see them struggling to hold the old school gamers, if they insist on going along this road, as I sense from what I have heard and seen is a large number of older gamers, bailing on the company they have grown up with. Many gaming buddies have been dropping GW as prices rise and value for money seems to get thrown out windows, over profit margins, I mean they don't have a monopoly in the market any more, to many companies are able to compete with them.
I think we are going to have to watch this space I guess. To see which path the company decide to go down and if the gaming community follow on regardless.
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