Their official IP policy.
That's kind of the crux of it. The 4chan hackers at /tg/ and elsewhere dedicate an embarrassing amount of time rehashing the entire lore, creating alternative settings and making custom codexes.
That's a really demoralizing stance, I wonder what's going on. Are they salty a single passionate and talented boi created Astartes? Maybe they mean monetized and licensed characters only though. They certainly can't fuck with satire.
Technically but in recent years and likely for mainstream appeal they've started to position the Imperium as the good guys. It makes for easier marketing if you don't have Black Templars violently ripping people apart for the crime of not going to church of Sisters of Battle cleansing entire population because their rate of birth defects was deemed too high.
Well that's the nature of the bandwagon isn't it, people want to be part of what is popular and not what they'd personally like. So FOMO kicks in they watch some youtube videos (probably some Text to Speech) start posting memes but when they eventually realise that 40k is really not a satire (if you've read any of the novel or backstory it's all played pretty straight actually...) then they start attempting to have elements changed to be more to their liking,
Lets not even get started about their bad hair
You stay classy games workshop, you stay classy.
Nothing about mods yet but give them time. They're going Japanese levels of protecting their IP.
People seem to forget that every country has their own copyright laws and ideas of fair use. The world isn't America.
so basically, it's just lazy people who never thought "hmn, where's the capeshit in this grimdark"
I like how WH40k plays a lot of themes and cliches in such a fucked up way. While I like the lore vids, I find the Imperium to be the only vaguely hero-ish ones but that's more of a "best of the worst" scenario.
Will try to listen later but if it's specifically 'Astarte' then yeah it's Pederson.
What's hilarious is leddit is claiming this is the fault of toxic fans.
No shit? This I'd love to see so I can mock them.
Our club doesn't have any tau players, so the first one I meet was when we played 7ed apocalypse out of town. He had 3x5 fire warriors, 6 riptides, 2 armless chickens, and a bunch of forge world suit variants including titan. And he unironically made knelling riptide meme. Against him was a guy with wooden stormbird mounted on the pan that destroyed half of his army with destroyer blast turn one. What a fucking disaster ladies and guntlemen.
4th expansions basically became imperials who want to purge all the xeno filth. I kinda like tau's slow realisation that they are fucked and imperium is right.
Here's a good one, look at the replies
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I had to look up "kneeling riptide" because I didn't know what that was. Why is Tau shit so gay?
It's kinda became redundant in 8ed because cover is fucking joke and doesn't work 90% of the time.
Because it's attempting to appeal to mecha-anime-Gundam fans.
How much effort do you really want to put into pandering? It's not like this is going to bring in a wave of new black players or anything, all they're doing to pandering to the existing playerbase. The progressive nutcases get to feel like GW is listening to them and soon the Emperor of Mankind will return to bring the world of Karl Marx to the Imperium of Man (and give them female space marines) while even those players who don't care will be like "well always nice to get more options".
Fair on all points. God damn I'm tired of seeing token nigger women in media with dreadlocks shoved into everything.
He DID do some gayass virtue signaling after the ascension of St. Floyd.
I’ve known of three black guys that got into 40k. Two of them were adopted by nerds and the other got into it while in the army via a friend. I’ve known more latinos and Asians though who were into the hobby. I’ve never seen a black or hispanic woman who was into 40k. I’m sure somewhere out there is one, but it’d be like seeing Bigfoot.
