They haven't needed to respond to anything. An official announement in May with some additional updates over the next few weeks coincides with a June/July release of AoS 4.0 The release timing was likely setup ages ago considering the need to create the new molds, get the packing and books shipped from china, get things boxed up and then on boats from the UK to their various distribution centers, and so on.
The backlash against the Femstodes is largely restricted to some online grifters and their fans, most of whom don't even buy the product anyways. It gets the blood boiling, it gets clicks for these grifters, but at the end of the day, that shit you took yesterday had more impact.
An this is why I always roll orks, buffed or nerfed, they're just fun to play, kitbash models and do crazy/dumb stuff with.
Agreed cost of entry is actually pretty close to $0 especially if you already own a lot of models.
the heat is in the 10 buck patreon tier where you get tons of STL's and all the advanced rulebooks. the lore book recently came out and TBH I don't think it's grimdark enough (for a game called grimdark future) but hey its not like we don't all headcanon 40k shit into it in the first place.
I imagine that between the rules being bad and the autism that the custodes minis themselves might not have had as good of a launch as they would like. The rules being bad probably would’ve hurt it more since if the rules were very good metachasers would buy the minis even if they disliked the lore. And the rules are bad enough it will dissuade some casual gamers as well. But it’s more like a short term thing. And they’ll move on with other launches, especially if AoS sells well.
I’ve been a Patreon member since near the beginning and I’ve literally got a dozen fully fleshed out armies that I can print, plus so many other things. Tons of terrain, objective markers, even custom rulers measurement tools. Plus there is a ship based space miniatures game that you get models for, too.
I'm really curious where that argument even comes from, because it reads like utter cope "look their stock didn't change!!!". it reminds me of that AOS circlejerking talking shit about fantasy players and no one cares, it's a good thing and it's gonna be great, where it got to the point people were literally burning their armies - the same people "that don't spend money", to get replaced by literally no one.
you don't need art if you don't have any lore, and if you have any lore you don't need any sculpts either. unless you want your own mini business and your setting is niche like turnip28 or something there's really no need to bother with that. and even if it's successful there are plenty of sculptors you can work with at that point, or people do their own sculpts to jump on the train. for example modiphius works with titan forge for official five parsec minis. stl miniatures did 2 kickstarters that were all about frostgrave.
to be fair if you just hoard it and don't really print/play with it there's not much difference, at that point it's just a copy of ones and zeros somewhere. I tend to spend money when I actually use someone's stuff.
Attracting culture warriors can't be avoided. There is only one way to make it work: You need to NOT react to screeching from both sides. Don't apologize, don't explain, don't engage. Don't open a Discord. Only focus on your project and shut up about current world politics and the culture war. This also means keeping your ego in check. You might feel the need to say something - DON'T!
Don't let some faggot retards on either side online make you give up on your dream. If anything, most projects I've done are for no ones enjoyment but my own, and I am happy with that. No popularity is better than not trusting your gut and doing what you want to do. Also do what @Sinner's Sandwich said and never EVER do a Discord. Place is a plague upon us all and makes me yearn for the days of Skype, horrifying as that is.
Unfortunately, the left has created a problem with that too.
yeah, but at least not saying something doesn't give them the ammunition for them to start rallying against you... usually. The "don't do discord" thing is absolutely 100% correct though. You won't be able to keep them out, and if you are filtering your discord membership in any way, they'll just keep quiet till they have a critical mass to start throwing trans flag react emojis everywhere, and declare you to be the next tyrant out to commit a genocide.
Assumptions can't be avoided either. But the culture war goblins (mainly trannies) will fuck you up if you react in a way they don't like. It's always better to not engange. Everything you say will be used against you. We have seen this time and time again.
People like that have to be the biggest dorks in geekdom. Yes, I can imagine some religious parents can be a hassle to live with, but it's not like they took you to the Spanish Inquisition and had you put in the Judas Chair for reading a book about fictional demons or something. Not to mention their takes on history, science, and religion are about as basic-bitch cucked and it goes to show that they at most, have a basic high school-level education or less.
Basically, yes. The best move is not to play at all. Both sides are filled with autistic assholes who can and will use anything you say against you.
My only experience with Discord is having a bunch of idiots toss slurs all over the place, so I clocked out. That was at least two years ago, maybe three. It was worthless.
It depends on the company. If the fanbase is full of people that the current generation of alphabet people hate, then yes, going woke will make you go broke, just look at Star Wars. But that isn't the same for every fanbase or franchise; if you have a fanbase of progressives who are already leftist, going woke will retain their loyalty. And in the case of Warhammer and GW, their fanbase mostly consists of paypigs who will buy up the plastic crack no matter what, so them going woke won't hurt things at all. The lore-fans aren't the big money-makers for GW, the plastic crack addicts are, and those fuckers don't care about lore. Otherwise the Primaris and the Stormcast Eternals wouldn't have sold well like they did.
That's not the same as a discord for a business. If you look at a discord for a video game like... I dunno helldivers, every post the devs make gets thousands of tranny flag reactions, and if their flag gets bumped off the list of reactions they'll get their friends to spam more of it so it pops back onto the list as visible. They've also spend the entire time since the launch of helldivers 2 whining about wanting to see tranny flag and rainbow capes added to the game that make no sense in the setting, as the setting doesn't give a fuck so long as you're killing bugs or whatever. It doesn't even have pronouns or gender options, just skinny body and muscled body, and you can pick a male or female sounding voice. And that still isn't enough for them.
Every discord opened by companies for the fans ends up like this. I remember a server for a hololive talent being hijacked during June to have “pride” in its name by trannies. They then took to tagging everyone over and over again every day and banning anyone who asked why they felt the need to do this. That’s a common thing as well, they do this in a lot of servers and ban people for disagreeing. It’s part of the narcissism.
The big problem with TC is that they’re going along with what chronically online people on X and reddit are saying. The thing you have to remember is that the culture warriors on either side are nogames. They don’t actually play anything and won’t actually buy anything, they just want you to change it to appease their sensibilities. They don’t actually enjoy anything. I’ve mentioned it before in the thread regarding battletech. If it took a certain thing happening for you to like something as a whole, you don’t really like it.
This is the best advice here if we’re being honest here. Don’t open a discord server, don’t follow any accounts on your social media that aren’t companies that also don’t put out statements regarding politics and for the love of god, shut up about current world issues. Ignoring the replies that aren’t about the topic at hand (game discussion) also goes a long way. Ignore the fаggоt asking “how are LGBT people treated in this setting?” but answer the guy who asks about things related to the rules.
