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I think my biggest question regarding SODAZ is how much sway/influence/whatever GW has in Korea.
Doing some quick digging I can only find one GW store in Soeul and a few independent retailers and it isn't a country you can pick on the website. It does seem to have a decent fan community though with the site where sodaz first mentioned the situating and a decent number of hit when you search Warhammer in korean.
Edit: never mind there's is no GW store in korea, store finder was listing one in Japan
 
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Man, the "We totally didn't get hit with a C&D, guys!" posts are just as fake and gay as the one the MechWarrior: Living Legends guys posted up when PGI was pushing MWO hard.
 
Fanatical Pragmatist said:
Where does one find the Chinese discount models?
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If you can't find their direct websites there are plenty of resellers on eBay or even Alibaba that'll charge you less than GW and Forge World. If I'm being honest, I've had more consistent quality in terms of details and flash from the recasters than anything from GW/FW, especially with resin models.
 
This reminds me of another 40k fan film creator (although I think it was 30k specifically), but I just can't remember what he created. I remember he put something like "for the fans of old warhammer" or something at the start of his video and that resulted in a communist tism storm and him making hours of livestream content where I think he was literally crying.
 
Holy shit! So I decided to check out the GW site and i’m currently in a 40 minute queue! I totally forgot about the Ork boxset was coming out this week.
 
I (Don't) Have A Gun said:
This reminds me of another 40k fan film creator (although I think it was 30k specifically), but I just can't remember what he created. I remember he put something like "for the fans of old warhammer" or something at the start of his video and that resulted in a communist tism storm and him making hours of livestream content where I think he was literally crying.
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Death of Hope, by Mark Louis Spark. Everyone accused him of gatekeeping because his video was "A Monument to older fans of the true Grimdark Universe". Basically he wanted his shit to be as grimdark as the setting was originally meant to be. But nope, apparently they decided to interpret it as him saying "If you don't 100% agree with my vision of how 40k should be then you're not a fan."
 
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So as of 10:43 (probably before) the beast snagga ork army set in no longer available F8D30B0B-D187-4DEF-A418-9D3A77C7C4B5.jpeg
 
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Exceptionally Exceptional said:
Death of Hope, by Mark Louis Spark. Everyone accused him of gatekeeping because his video was "A Monument to older fans of the true Grimdark Universe". Basically he wanted his shit to be as grimdark as the setting was originally meant to be. But nope, apparently they decided to interpret it as him saying "If you don't 100% agree with my vision of how 40k should be then you're not a fan."
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And this caused him to have a break down and scrap productions of the next episodes.
 
I'm seriously considering trying out a recaster, since double volkite contemptors are the Meta right now, not only are they sold out, so are the Deredeo Volkites I actually want.
 
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GW tried to snag another animator from YouTube. He told them no and end up having to demonetize his vids and pull his Patreon.
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Quick, someone call Valrak, his shill powers as part of the GW Defense League are needed, STAT.

Edit: Watching the video, he still takes time to push the SODAZ harassment narrative. Interesting.

And yeah, that's the tl;dr: He was contacted by GW 2 weeks ago, he didn't like the terms for working for Warhammer+, and as a result GW has forced him to remove all monetization from his videos and kill his Patreon.

So yeah, that'll be the next talking point, guarantee it. "They're not forcing you to remove anything but they're obviously not going to let you make money off their IP."

Edit: Actually, HEY GW, I found some people that are monetizing GW's IP, you had better stop them, Quick!

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Hey look, Monetization of fan content of GW IP! Sick'm, GW's lawyers! Go go go!
 
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Quick, someone call Valrak, his shill powers as part of the GW Defense League are needed, STAT.

Edit: Watching the video, he still takes time to push the SODAZ harassment narrative. Interesting.

And yeah, that's the tl;dr: He was contacted by GW 2 weeks ago, he didn't like the terms for working for Warhammer+, and as a result GW has forced him to remove all monetization from his videos and kill his Patreon.

So yeah, that'll be the next talking point, guarantee it. "They're not forcing you to remove anything but they're obviously not going to let you make money off their IP."

Edit: Actually, HEY GW, I found some people that are monetizing GW's IP, you had better stop them, Quick!

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Hey look, Monetization of fan content of GW IP! Sick'm, GW's lawyers! Go go go!
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I've already seen people pushing that shit line. "You don't just get to make money off your hard work because that hard work was using GW's IP!"
They're outright defending a company stomping on fan animators and threatening them into working for them or forcing them to make 40k animations completely for free with no compensation for the massive amount of time spent making the shit.

If GW wasn't the epitome of greedy corporate sleeze they would just ask for a cut. Like ask for 10% of their Patreon takings for use of the IP and let them continue on.

But no, GW wants an all or nothing approach. Either work for us or don't work at all as your animation will now be a completely unpaid hobby.

Not to mention that this shit serves as the best free advertising GW could ever ask for. Astartes probably made more people aware of 40k than any amount of ads GW could spam on YT. And onstead of being thankful for the passion and free advertizing they just see another chance at a product to hawk.

And fuckers are defending this behavior.
 
Why do I get the feeling GW probably didn’t expect the guy to say no. After all who wouldn’t want to make trailers for products that are barely available less then an hour after after initial release.
 
Right on que, Valrak has gone live. But, uh, GW might have lost him?

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He's immediately talking facts and absolutes about SODAZ. "SODAZ mainly walked away because of the abuse from TOXIC FANDOM and not because GW threatened him."

~30 minutes in, he actually disagrees with GW going after Dal's Patreon and Video Monetization.

And he changed his patreon just now to remove mention of 40k.

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Edit: lol, I just noticed that he had changed literally between me loading it initially on the last page and refreshing it to get a better screenshot. So both screencaps don't say Warhammer 40k.
 
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And he changed his patreon just now to remove mention of 40k.
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I recall Games Workshop sending Arch Warhammer an angry email to make him drop the Warhammer to just become Arch.
Arch did a massively smug video about it, so not a lot of people cared and of course to a lot of the Warhammer Community Arch is the embodiment of toxicity and not just some funny looking Norwegian sperg.
Anyway what I'm getting at that GW has shown a history of being very protective of the name "Warhammer" and using this to put pressure on people. Valrak probably didn't feel like taking the risk.

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I really do wish James Cameron were a petty man and decided to go after GW for ripping off not one, but two of his movie franchises.
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I think the entire Warhammer franchise has maybe 3 original ideas. What games workshop does is it take existing ideas, mashes them together, packages and present it in a different enough way for them to claim it's their own and then they go reinforce that claim though lots of litigation.
 
I wonder why GW has been going after these Warhammer channels all of a sudden. The animation channels I can see with the release of Warhammer Animations; acquire talented members of the community and gain exclusive access to their content to incentivize purchase of Warhammer+.

But the more discussion and lore based channels are something else. I think of how Star Wars and Star Trek handle fan content and there is little that they do when it comes to those channels. But then again, GW is not a media company like CBS and Disney are. GW’s practice may fit how they have gone after copyright issues before, like with Chapter House’s miniatures and the Chapter Master video game. Complete exclusivity in the use of the Warhammer brand.
 
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