Hi,
Getting emails from Fanatical, GOG, and a couple of others pushing
Warhammer games.
I heard a commentator on a news show saying her kid can't stop playing
Dark Tide. Sounds tempting so I looked it up. It is a Warhammer game
and it got medicore reviews. In fact, all of them (and there is like
60 of them according to PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/best-warhammer-40k-games/) get mediocre
reveiws.
What kind of game is this. I had no idea this game series has been
out so long.
Does anyone here play Warhammer?
On 5/25/2024 10:28 AM, PW wrote:
Hi,
Getting emails from Fanatical, GOG, and a couple of others pushing Warhammer games.
I heard a commentator on a news show saying her kid can't stop playing
Dark Tide. Sounds tempting so I looked it up. It is a Warhammer game
and it got medicore reviews. In fact, all of them (and there is like
60 of them according to PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/best-warhammer-40k-games/) get mediocre
reveiws.
What kind of game is this. I had no idea this game series has been
out so long.
Does anyone here play Warhammer?
It started as (and as far as I know still is) a tabletop miniatures
wargame way back when, which may or may not explain how the computer
games got such a following so quickly. But might explain the
willingness to spend more and more money on more and more
miniatures/DLCs....
And no, I haven't played Warhammer in any incarnation.
Well, there's always Hero Quest; you could try that. I hear it's
great.* It's a Warhammer spin-off (or, more technically, Warhammer is
a spin-off of Hero Quest, since HQ came first 😉
On Sat, 25 May 2024 18:39:37 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: >>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 5/25/2024 10:28 AM, PW wrote:
Getting emails from Fanatical, GOG, and a couple of others pushing
Warhammer games.
I heard a commentator on a news show saying her kid can't stop playing >>> > Dark Tide. Sounds tempting so I looked it up. It is a Warhammer game >>> > and it got medicore reviews. In fact, all of them (and there is like
60 of them according to PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/best-warhammer-40k-games/) get mediocre
reveiws.
What kind of game is this. I had no idea this game series has been
out so long.
Does anyone here play Warhammer?
It started as (and as far as I know still is) a tabletop miniatures
wargame way back when, which may or may not explain how the computer
games got such a following so quickly. But might explain the
willingness to spend more and more money on more and more
miniatures/DLCs....
And no, I haven't played Warhammer in any incarnation.
I briefly played one or two, but couldn't get into this series. :(
Well, there's always Hero Quest; you could try that. I hear it's
great.* It's a Warhammer spin-off (or, more technically, Warhammer is
a spin-off of Hero Quest, since HQ came first ;-)
The reason it is showing up in emails, etc. is that Games Workshop
(the owners of the license) are running a promotion for all their
digital products. Both Steam and GOG (and perhaps other storefronts,
but I'm not bothering to check on any of those) have a "Skulls
Festival of Video Game" where the Warhammer games are on sale. So the
various storefronts are spamming all their members telling everybody
about the 'great' deals now available.
And why the sale? Because the IP holders, Games Workshop, subscribe to
the 'razor blade' model of business. Sell the core product cheaply,
then make up for it by selling the users lots of accessories. With the >tabletop games, that means that -in order to play the game- you need
not only buy the rulebooks, but hundreds of indidivual miniatures, all
that need to be painted using GW paints. With their digital products,
it's sell the core game cheaply, but each game only focuses on a tiny
portion of the franchise, and there are dozens of DLCs and cosmetics
for each game.
In either case, the money doesn't really start rolling in until you
get the players to first buy the core product. Only then can you start >milking them with the expansions.
Oh, and once you've finally released all the expansions you can for a
game? Declare it obsolete and release the next edition!
Can you tell that I'm not a fan of Games Workshop? It's not that I
dislike their games -although the whole 'everything is so grim and
dark' thing is pretty old hat because GW hasn't had a new idea in 30
years!- but their business model is just slimey. That they've also
tried to claim ownership over the concept of the space marine, and
their hard-line stance against fan-created works doesn't make me any
more fond of the company.
That said, their games -both tabletop and digital- aren't too bad.
They aren't really great either, but they've a unique atmosphere and
setting. The company's (and fans') stance on how the game MUST be
played ("you space marines are painted the wrong color of blue, it's
not canon, you can't use those in the game!") is a bit annoying. It's
also /really/ expensive to get into. But -back in the day, before GW's
greed became central to its existence- I had a small army and we
played a few games. It was okay. It's mostly a miniature wargame,
though, and - being more of a tabletop role-playing game fan- I knew
it wasn't really a game for me. But I got some nice miniuatures out of
the experience that would later feature in a number of my tabletop D&D >campaigns. ;-)
But "Hero Quest" is great.
Hi,
Getting emails from Fanatical, GOG, and a couple of others pushing
Warhammer games.
I heard a commentator on a news show saying her kid can't stop playing
Dark Tide. Sounds tempting so I looked it up. It is a Warhammer game
and it got medicore reviews. In fact, all of them (and there is like
60 of them according to PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/best-warhammer-40k-games/) get mediocre
reveiws.
What kind of game is this. I had no idea this game series has been
out so long.
Does anyone here play Warhammer?
-pw
On Sun, 26 May 2024 23:35:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote at 17:28 this Saturday (GMT):
Does anyone here play Warhammer?
I don't, but I know a few people who do.
It always seemed a hobby more popular on one side of the pond than the
other. I don't know if that's because Games Workshop (and Warhammer)
are British, or if it's just that playing with little army men is
generally more accepted in the UK than the US (I suspect the latter, actually). But board-game wargames seemed to be the more popular in
America, whereas miniature games seemed to have the edge in England.
But there are fans on both side, and they're easy enough to find, if
you know what to look for (just look for the gamer with the slightly
haughty look on their face in the game shoppe ;-)
On Sun, 26 May 2024 23:35:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote at 17:28 this Saturday (GMT):
Does anyone here play Warhammer?
I don't, but I know a few people who do.
It always seemed a hobby more popular on one side of the pond than the
other. I don't know if that's because Games Workshop (and Warhammer)
are British, or if it's just that playing with little army men is
generally more accepted in the UK than the US (I suspect the latter, actually). But board-game wargames seemed to be the more popular in
America, whereas miniature games seemed to have the edge in England.
But there are fans on both side, and they're easy enough to find, if
you know what to look for (just look for the gamer with the slightly
haughty look on their face in the game shoppe ;-)
Hi,
Getting emails from Fanatical, GOG, and a couple of others pushing
Warhammer games.
I heard a commentator on a news show saying her kid can't stop playing
Dark Tide. Sounds tempting so I looked it up. It is a Warhammer game
and it got medicore reviews. In fact, all of them (and there is like
60 of them according to PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/best-warhammer-40k-games/) get mediocre
reveiws.
What kind of game is this. I had no idea this game series has been
out so long.
Does anyone here play Warhammer?
And why the sale? Because the IP holders, Games Workshop, subscribe to
the 'razor blade' model of business. Sell the core product cheaply,
then make up for it by selling the users lots of accessories. With the tabletop games, that means that -in order to play the game- you need
not only buy the rulebooks, but hundreds of indidivual miniatures, all
that need to be painted using GW paints. With their digital products,
it's sell the core game cheaply, but each game only focuses on a tiny
portion of the franchise, and there are dozens of DLCs and cosmetics
for each game.
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