Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150628150826/@comment-26516936-20160229215154

What GW did to Warhammer Fantasy quite obviously does NOT make sense financially as the Age of Sigmar reboot has been an utter disaster, rather than making money for GW the new system has reduced revenue significantly. Warhammer Fantasy was in a serious decline before the reboot & definitely needed fixing & the End Times event that preceded the reboot was actually well recieved. Where GW went so catastrophiclly wrong  was what they replaced Warhammer Fantasy with. Gw Made three horrible errors in creating the new system any one of which could have scuppered the game but all together guaranteed it.

1st they changed the focus onto the new Stormhost Eternals an obvious attempt to shoe horn 40k space marines into a fantasy setting & it did not work. The new Lame Marines were duller than dishwater lacking most of what made 40k space marines interesting & by concentrating on these abortions they greatly reduced the role of every other race in the game.

2nd they replaced the old rules with a new system that made the game a lot harder to actually play effectively causing huge numbers of hardcore gamers to abandon AOS in droves for other more playable systems.

3rd the new fluff for AOS was so bad it looked like it had been created by a retarded 6 year old which completely alienated those who loved the old setting & the complexeties of it & so killed the sales numbers of all AOS novels & drove even more gamers away.

The problem though is that the management of GW is so deluded & stupid that they refuse to admit, or even understand, how badly they stuffed everything up for Warhammer Fantasy. Which means there is a very real danger that they could destroy their cash cow 40k in the same way & if the same morons who created AOS are the ones to direct 40k's end times & what comes after thats exactly what will happen. The one ray of light is that the substantial reduction in revenue caused by AOS (not the criticism as they never pay attention to that) has caused some of the dead heads in GW management pause &, from what i've heard, the 40K end times event has been put on hold. Still the stagnation problem of 40k's story stopping at the end of the 42nd millenium still exists & with the Horus Heresy series closing in on it's conclusion GW will still need to do something at some point to push the story beyond the it's current roadstop otherwise 40k will slowly go the way Warahammer Fantasy went before the end. The problem is that to push the story forward requires a small amount of common sense & an I.Q above 70 & there are few among GW's management that has either.