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late 30s trans girl

Video Games, Retro tech,

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As I'm looking to get back into miniature painting again GW goes ahead and announces 10th edition of warhammer 40k. As someone who really doesn't enjoy boardgames (after thousands of dollars and decades of trying), I'm still really curious to Games Workshop's business model going forward. Covid and technology have changed tabletop gaming for good. GW now has to complete with several dozen other miniature games on top of free to play computer games, and 3D printers so good people are claiming that in some ways they're superior to Forge World models.

If the rules are going to be available online, I can see this allowing them to make rules for long neglected and rarely mentioned forces. The issue of course then becomes model production. What if GW decided to try and get a piece of every slice of the pie? They make and sell plastic starter kits of popular factions, but sell STL files for home 3D printing of less popular units, unit variations, or less popular factions. What if GW also started a license program where 3D printers can be GW certified to print their models at a satisfactory quality? What if GW sold their own resin mixtures? Or a print on demand system?

What if they sold STL files for all of their older models as retro throwbacks?


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