Games Workshop Deleting ENTIRE ARMIES for Age of Sigmar

Games Workshop is getting rid of Beasts of Chaos, Bonesplitterz, a WHOLE mess of Stormcast Eternals - and more! WHY?

[aaronsomerville]

In short, their business model is that every 3-6 years you rebuy all the books and half or more of your miniatures collection. It’s essentially a subscription model.

[Retrofun]

"We can not keep producing the same miniatures forever."

*Rereleases the old world**

. . .

[torros]

Stormcast Eternals not quite as Eternal as first thought

[CirWot]

Historical gamer here to remind you that it's unlikely your WW2 US infantry or Tiger tanks are going to be removed when Bolt Action 3.0 arrives. But I don't see why the GW news surprises anyone, AoS was only made to replace and invalidate Old World models, and Primaris to replace Marines, etc. Any gamer that played GW since the 80's has seen this countless times. Nice vid as always.

[diomedspartan]

1page rules is looking really good about now.

[SpaceMarine_]

"Games Workshop is the most Unfriendly Consumer Company Ever"

GW: "Hold my beer..."

[Illersvansen]

GW squatting models that are less than 2 years old is actually insane.

[patp]

Keep in mind Sacrosant Stormcast were in all the starter boxes for AoS in 2nd edition. Which means that the models they're leaving without support were their advertised way into the hobby less than 3 years ago to the day. If you'd got an AoS starter in April 2021, all those SCE models are turning obsolete now.

[FernandoMSanz]

"We can not keep producing the same miniatures forever. Now, here you are the same Bretonnian men at arms from your childhood at unbelievable 2024 prices! You can't have it anyways, because it's permanently out of stock. But hey, we know you'll buy it because y'all plastic junkies, so stay tuned for more updates!" -And they are right...

[ShitpostingArchive]

"this is the new schedule of events every 3-6 years and this will be the new normal" you made me realise i should just quit gw models and get a good 3d printer

[HeinousinAppearance]

I sit here painting my Beasts of Chaos knowing they will next year sit on a shelf, never to be played again - and I think with it my interest in AoS.

[xdude]

TLDR; I fell in love with the Beasts of Chaos as a kid, it was the first army I got, and GW nuked it.

Back in the early 00s I was a young kid who loved sci-fi and fantasy. My parents would take me to the local book store and the magazine section had White Dwarf. I was never allowed to buy the magazine, but I would always look at the cover in amazement. I will never forget the cover that had Beastmen fighting against Dwarfs. I loved the beastmen look and, to my young mind, they were the perfect enemy to good. Fast forward to September 2018. I finally had a real job, making real money, and I had just gotten into 40k back in august. My LGS announced the pre-order for Beast of Chaos in AoS2e and I snatched up everything released that initial weekend. Later on I bought a second Start Collecting box to flesh out the army. All throughout 2e BoC was ok at best. I had fun with it, but I would either barely win by playing the objective or I would get tabled by the better armies immediately. AoS 3e destroyed the army. They slapped that book together just to keep up with the release cycle. Now my army isn't even valid.

I don't want to switch to The Old World. I'm tired of giving GW my money...problem is, OPR Age of Fantasy Regiment is the ONLY game I can find that actively supports "Beastmen". Every other rank and flank game has effectively ignored them. I've gotten through several editions of 40k and AoS. I've had my complaints but my models were (mostly) usable across editions. I didn't think I could be more disappointed in GW, but I was wrong...

[velentr]

As my beard greys and my hair slowly disappear- the more I understands the Grognards of my youth:

"We have the books and the models, GW holds no power over how or _what_ we play. Screw the new edition, we're starting a Mordheim campaign."

Well; friendship over with WH, now Malifaux/OPR/Zona Alfa/Gaslands/LotR/ 13 is my new best friend.

[ZennZennster]

Any coincidence that Games Workshop hired a "fear of missing out" director last year?

[Annoyachu]

Ive heard it said in other hobbies that "if it's 'to expensive, ' you're not the intended audience." Seems like more and more, I'm not GWs intended audience. Thankfully, there are other options.

[PaisleySundance]

This was the last push I needed to fully embrace miniature-agnostic gaming.

[DiggingForFacts]

GW "We've made so many models over the years and we can't support them all. This entire range from 2011-2015 is going to have to stop." Meanwhile, I'm sitting here building my T'au Hammerhead dated 2001 on the sprues.

From a practical perspective I can understand the wanting to trim production branches and dial down the amount they need to make, but that also seems very much like a planning/scheduling failure on the part of GW. If this isn't a deliberate "our kits are now semi-limited edition" move to push higher sales per unit, it is a the very least inept on the part of managment.

[markkuhn]

Couple of years ago when I started thinking towards how I would spend my retirement years, I looked back on all the hobbies I'd enjoyed in previous years but never had the time to jump all-in on them. Painting miniatures was one of those hobbies. So last year I also got the itch to maybe start playing games with the models I was painting. Up until that point, I was only painting very expensive models. Why not join the crowd and drain my bank account? I balked when my research revealed all the ways Games Workshop works their con. Here's an interesting analogy that summarized GW's business model to me. Most of us own a car because we need a car. Now imagine what it would be like if you had to replace the car every two or three years. We would still buy cars because we need a car. I don't understand why gamers are drawn to GW even though they (we, sorry!) realize we're being ripped off. We just don't know how badly. I don't have a problem with a company making expansions that enhance and make their games and products more fun to play. That's fine. But when a company waits until people have invested thousands of dollars and then declares their system null and void, then you have a con. A grift. Stop selling the drug people need, but when they're sweating out their withdrawals, they are waiting beside us holding a shiny needle filled with an all new drug.
I still paint miniatures, but I print them for a fraction of the cost.
One Page Rules is free. And a couple of bags of plastic army men is about 15 bucks on Amazon.

[WolfwoodXIII]

They started a race to nowhere against themselves. So much new releases so fast, they have to ditch not so old models way sooner than usually.

[thedanish]

GW: We're deliberately stoking FOMO
Me: Damn that's crazy *prints a whole army of Highland minis*