That was actually a kneejerk reaction to Washington state(again, another reason to get out of that shithole) causing problems for them legally due to the MTG judge program getting so much shit finally for the pedos being exposed, not wanting to do background checks on people they wanting hanging around kids, etc. So Washington makes it illegal to have volunteers paid with cards and shit(like the MTG judges), PP freaks the fuck out and jettisons their pressgang program and forums because they're afraid the state.
So now LGS don't have any community volunteers to do demo games, organize small events, etc. leaving the community(at least in most of the US, and some of it internationally as well based on the discord during mk3) to become a bunch of feral "that guy" inviting new players to games just to curb stomp them, arguing about bases being in contact even if the intent was stated for being in contact and pulling out a laser to prove there's .0001" between the bases so they aren't in contact, like I said measuring the spray templates with calipers in the packages, fudging the arcs/facing marks on base rims so they aren't quite 90 or 180.
So the casuals moved out, and trannies moved in rainbow flags got permanently put up, I think they left their general chat as pridechat or some shit after pride month for a few years, hired some tranny community managers that never played the damned games and couldn't hold a conversation when people were trying to discuss balance problems. There was an entirely separate group that ran the wiki... loremachine or something like that? That eventually came up with a 25 point format, banned a whole bunch of models, and tried to make a more casual version of the game but the remaining hyper competitive people(mostly cheating) immediately jumped on that and shit it up as a way to just keep pummeling anyone trying to get into the game(since the minis everywhere were basically 50% off at the time, nevermind their insane "mystery boxes" with $500 in product for like $80 trying to clear out their warehouse and pretend nothing was wrong), they lost most of their public facing staff to asmodee/atomic mass games and some other company, lost their painting staff that was making youtube videos, launched their stupid skirmish boardgame aristeia clone adding even MORE characters to warmahordes at the same time, relaunched monster pocalypse for the third time to an immediate failure, launched their warmahordes 40k wannabe scifi game that immediately failed because it was entirely kickstarted so no game stores even wanted to support it(wtf would an LGS want to host events for a game where all of the players literally have all of the product already and notoriously drive off new players). It just goes on and on...
Seriously, it's a sub 2% drop. It's not even at the same low that it hit back in March, or December, or November and it's still up right now from where it was in April 2023. 2022 was when their stock price took a beating as the stupid pandemic was finally over and shipping costs(among other things) were through the roof and it bottomed out somewhere around $65. Their latest revenue report was January and they do half-year so we won't get the next one until July. That's when any real revenue drop will need to be explained, and have repercussions on stock value if it can't be spun positively. But even then they've got the AoS 4.0 release coming at the same time, which is going to likely remain an incentive to buy(the stock) due to speculation over the revenue gain for the 2nd half of 2024 anyway. Unless this dip turns into something drastic, all it's amounted to is putting them right back to where they were for a good portion of the YTD anyway and they just came off of a bump from dividend payouts not even a couple of weeks back.
At this point it's like the star wars grifters going on about how Kathleen Kennedy is due to get fired any minute now... for the past 4 years.
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