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The Tragedy of the Commons, Stupid Boogaloo.
Astartes - Web Animation
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tankdrop24
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When Disney announced their own streaming service, I didn't take them seriously until the announced they were taking over Fox.
What business does Games Workshop have thinking of charging people a handful of dollars a month to watch a handful of short clips?
What business does Games Workshop have thinking of charging people a handful of dollars a month to watch a handful of short clips?
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games workshop will simply purchase disney
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Correct, this is also CAAAtriplecrapitalsim
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Well this is definitely the worst case scenario.
Though what they also seem to be doing is making it a service to get exclusive models.
I would mock the idea of paying them a subscription to get the chance to pay them more, but that already seems to have worked out for Hasbro with Transformers.
Though what they also seem to be doing is making it a service to get exclusive models.
I would mock the idea of paying them a subscription to get the chance to pay them more, but that already seems to have worked out for Hasbro with Transformers.
Sabertooth
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same thing they were thinking when they decided to stop selling separate online versions of their codexes and force you to buy the hard copies to put a code into an app that you also have to pay a monthly fee for. And is also a complete trashfire.
and there's an amazon show supposedly in the works
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An Eisenhorn adapation I believe, though last word from it was 2019 so doubt it was more than just a potential IP tease.
Reveen
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Me, a smooth-brained Fool: This will probably go badly because GW will probably insist on using their podunk 3rd party video player and neglect leveraging Youtube properly.
GW, absolute madlads: BAM, PROPRIETARY STREAMING SERVICE MOTHERFUCKER. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT BRUV?!
Yeah, this just goes to show that if you're a relatively small content creator signing a deal with a larger company you really want to ask if they're intending something like this first.
GW, absolute madlads: BAM, PROPRIETARY STREAMING SERVICE MOTHERFUCKER. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT BRUV?!
Yeah, this just goes to show that if you're a relatively small content creator signing a deal with a larger company you really want to ask if they're intending something like this first.
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Almost 100% probability that there was no choice in the matter. GW definitely came at them with a team of lawyers and said "join up with our content creation program and give us the rights for this stuff that is undeniably created using our IP for-profit and not only won't we sue you to hell and back we'll even give you a small part of the pie. All you have to do is sacrifice your personal fanbase."
tankdrop24
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And honestly, this makes me worry that they'll pull some bullshit to have the next installments be more in line with the 'tone' of official 40K fiction.
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No more Space Marines confronting mystery alien threats, only Primaris Lieutenants fighting Current Production Models with constant adverts of how you can buy or order both at the nearest GW Store.
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I really don't understand the attitude seemingly at play here that requires everything to be monetized, as in this instance it is entirely counterproductive: Astartes is essentially an advertisement for the 40k setting. Despite how good it is, it is not meaty enough a work to stand on its own as something a company can make a worthwhile amount of money charging for, and they would do better to simply keep these shorts free and easy to spread.
If they want to make an Astartes movie, or a longer form series, that would be another story, but even then, I bluntly fail to see that they have enough public mindshare to convince enough people to pay for entry into their walled garden to make it worth it.
Hopefully the C suite sees reason before the series is forgotten.
If they want to make an Astartes movie, or a longer form series, that would be another story, but even then, I bluntly fail to see that they have enough public mindshare to convince enough people to pay for entry into their walled garden to make it worth it.
Hopefully the C suite sees reason before the series is forgotten.
GW does nothing for free that they can charge. They are extremely arrogant in their position as TT gaming market leader
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Castro-Trudeauist
Honestly I find that the most charitable explanation is that they just want to get stuff like Astartes out of the wild, maybe recruit some talent with an offer they can't refuse, and grab a couple of extra bucks from people who will actually pay for their streaming service.
The alternative to that is that they actually think that launching a streaming service will be a big thing. That a relatively podunk tabletop game company that doesn't really do multimedia much can just succeed where way bigger companies are getting mixed results at best. Which sounds straight-up delusional.
The alternative to that is that they actually think that launching a streaming service will be a big thing. That a relatively podunk tabletop game company that doesn't really do multimedia much can just succeed where way bigger companies are getting mixed results at best. Which sounds straight-up delusional.
Or the other way around, finally completing the old joke, and it ends up on Disney+ anyways.
If they do they're a couple years late for that fad, as now it's only the ones who can actually compete who are out and about and not falling on their faces.