Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150628150826

so, fairly distressing news has come to my attention: the world of warhammer fantasy no longer exists! it seems that the 'end times' of the warhammer world actually destroyed the world... as in physically destroyed it and all that's left is rubble floating through space. i'm all for massive changes in story but this is like the worlds biggest 'up yours' to fantasy's fans.

if anyone knows the facts regarding this please say so, but it seems that warhammer fantasy was doing so poorly (which is also news to me as i thought it was more popular than 40k) that gw are discontinuing it, recalling all army books and ceasing model production. they're going to release a (probably limited) warhammer fantasy game set in sigmar's time but with a complete rules overhaul - essentially it sounds like it will be the 40k skirmish set up over fantasy's army of regiments set up.

this is very new news to me so if this is wrong and anyone can correct me then please do so (like really, i want to be very wrong on this)

so, the fantasy end times culminated in the destruction of the world and the upcoming end to the boardgame franchise. now 40k is (apparently) more popular than fantasy, but are 40k's upcoming end times going to mirror fantasy?

gw have been taking a lot of crap from their fanbase for many years, and rightly so as their fanbase has had to put up with a lot of crap from gw, but is it possible that gw would end 40k as they seem to be doing with fantasy? i would like to think not but gw don't have a great track record of satisfying their fans, and i can envision them doing this - we all make jokes about gw being in it for the moola but surely fantasy was/is profitable, and how could it not be with the cost of miniatures and army books, and yet they've killed it :( 