No one buys the figures anymore. Even less actually play the games. They are making their money on merchandise, toys, books, board games, shirts, and licensed content.
Not sure where you're getting this from, but that would be untrue. Since GW is a publicly traded company, they have to publicly post their financials.
https://investor.games-workshop.com/annual-reports-and-half-year-results
For their latest half early report, licensing revenue is around 5% of their core revenue. It ends up being quite a bit over 10% of their operating profit, because licensing basically just means paying a handfull of people to greenlight other companies(game studios, merch producers, etc.) doing the work. None of the t-shirts, bathrobes, scented candles, video games, pin badges, etc. is part of GWs core business and they don't produce any of it themselves.
Also lmao, paying that $24 markup.
LOL, fucking tourist paying MSRP.
It's the exact opposite. The lore chuds who are screaming to high hell over these changes typically haven't played a game or assembled an army for years.
I don't know about all of them, but at least with the youtube channels its quite a few. Gamza, Sargon of Applebees, The Outer Circle, Arch, Endymiontv, Yellowflash, TheQuartering, even that tranny Discourse Miniatures on the opposite end, they don't fucking play. Haven't played in years, or never did.
Exactly. You're more likely to see less Custodes purchases not because of the Fem-Custodes debacle, but because they got nerfed. If the opposite happened and they got buffed, GW could write in all the Fem-Custodes wank material they want, and it won't hurt their bottom line. They could even say that canonically, 90 percent of the Custodes are lesbian women who fornicate with each other on top of the Emperor's rotting corpse, and people would still buy that shit because of the meta.
I hadn't thought about this specifically with regards to this codex being drastically nerfed, and the femstodes thing. But it reminded me about complaints that GW likes to write rules to sell models. Clearly they don't with shit like this. Same with the new SM models for 9th and 10th being quite mediocre(except for the unintended apothecary beinging back the go-kart thing for a bit in 9th, which was nerfed).
Right off the bat there's a problem with this. Amazon wanting a woman in power armor who isn't SoB is easy and it happens plenty enough in novels, inquisitors can wear power armor and plenty of female inquisitors do from time to time(the one in the Ciaphas Cain books rings a bell).
