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Games Workshop to "cleanup" their back catalog.

Started by tenbones, December 08, 2022, 01:24:31 PM

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tenbones

December 08, 2022, 01:24:31 PM
"Games Workshop — the owner of Warhammer brand — noted that Liber Chaotica, originally released in 2006 contains content that is inconsistent with the company's values now, almost 20 years later.

Therefore, Liber Chaotica cannot be published in Polish in the known form, and there will probably be no reprints of this position in the English-language version."

So... this just the Liber Chaotica, they're not specific why... but you know, tits. I expect the old-school Warhammer is sunsetting into the maw of the Chaos God- Cipherus, It that Reduces All to Zero.

PulpHerb

#1
December 08, 2022, 02:05:40 PM
Quote from: tenbones on December 08, 2022, 01:24:31 PM
"Games Workshop — the owner of Warhammer brand — noted that Liber Chaotica, originally released in 2006 contains content that is inconsistent with the company's values now, almost 20 years later.

Therefore, Liber Chaotica cannot be published in Polish in the known form, and there will probably be no reprints of this position in the English-language version."

So... this just the Liber Chaotica, they're not specific why... but you know, tits. I expect the old-school Warhammer is sunsetting into the maw of the Chaos God- Cipherus, It that Reduces All to Zero.

Liber Chaotica will be the first, not the last, to disappear so they can appease people who are never satisfied and who, more often than not, were never going to and never have bought a GW product.

rytrasmi

#2
December 08, 2022, 02:49:46 PM
Mass market grimdark.
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout
Be merry my friends
Be merry

MeganovaStella

#3
December 08, 2022, 02:51:27 PM
Don't like Warhammer, but this is pretty bad. Hopefully Games Workshop goes under and explodes.

Svenhelgrim

#4
December 08, 2022, 03:10:28 PM
Every time I think about getting into Warhammer, GW does something to dissuade me.  This is one of those times.

Shipyard Locked

#5
December 08, 2022, 03:16:12 PM
Quote from: rytrasmi on December 08, 2022, 02:49:46 PM
Mass market grimdark.

Cozy grimdark.
Diet Atrocity.
Hardcore Lite.

"Now with 30% less British humor. Made with only the finest blend of American ultra-violence and torture fetishism, yet also guaranteed to contain no boobs, sexual assault, or slavery. Buy now and get a complementary set of plucky child character miniatures."

PulpHerb

#6
December 08, 2022, 03:59:25 PM
Quote from: Shipyard Locked on December 08, 2022, 03:16:12 PM
"Now with 30% less British humor. Made with only the finest blend of American ultra-violence and torture fetishism, yet also guaranteed to contain no boobs, sexual assault, or slavery. Buy now and get a complementary set of plucky child character miniatures."

I wish I thought the "plucky child character miniature" was a joke.

BoxCrayonTales

#7
December 08, 2022, 04:29:09 PM
After the disastrous management of Starcraft and Warcraft by the idiots at Activision Blizzard, Warhammer Fantasy and 40k were basically the only other IP in town if you were interested in anything vaguely similar. But I haven't really been interested since the mid 2000s, so this doesn't really affect me.

I did have some ideas for my own strategy game setting inspired by it tho. Space cowboys fighting space bugs while space elf angel robot things watch from afar. That sort of thing. Making an RTS is far beyond my skillset, but I might be able to do a tabletop board game or something. Altho I have no idea how one would even go about making one.

Ratman_tf

#8
December 08, 2022, 04:43:24 PM
...and the Chaos Gods laughed.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Jaeger

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December 08, 2022, 05:58:02 PM
Quote from: tenbones on December 08, 2022, 01:24:31 PM
"Games Workshop — the owner of Warhammer brand — noted that Liber Chaotica, originally released in 2006 contains content that is inconsistent with the company's values now, almost 20 years later.

Therefore, Liber Chaotica cannot be published in Polish in the known form, and there will probably be no reprints of this position in the English-language version."

So... this just the Liber Chaotica, they're not specific why... but you know, tits. I expect the old-school Warhammer is sunsetting into the maw of the Chaos God- Cipherus, It that Reduces All to Zero.

So GW is also embracing Corporate Cancer then...

They say that it's just Liber Chaotica "for now".

But Corporate Cancer is malignant in the extreme...
"The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge."

David Johansen

#10
December 08, 2022, 07:34:54 PM
Amusingly GW's rise to power came as a result of being transgessive when D&D was trying to be family friendly.
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Almost_Useless

#11
December 08, 2022, 09:11:05 PM
How can the possibly reconcile wokeness with IP that is centered around an eternal racial/religious war?  They might as well just close up shop.

Jaeger

#12
December 08, 2022, 09:15:02 PM
Quote from: Almost_Useless on December 08, 2022, 09:11:05 PM
How can the possibly reconcile wokeness with IP that is centered around an eternal racial/religious war?  They might as well just close up shop.

They don't have to...

Because cognitive dissonance is one of the defining features of the woke mindset.
"The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge."

rytrasmi

#13
December 09, 2022, 10:00:32 AM
Quote from: tenbones on December 08, 2022, 01:24:31 PM
... but you know, tits.
Why cancel a translation over a few pieces of art? If you really can't publish a few tits, then remove or alter those images. Translation is expensive and normal business practices would have the Polish translators still getting paid for work done.

Same goes for an offensive passage of text or even a chapter or two. Alter or remove.

Canceling a whole book means that the work is so entangled with "problematic" elements that it can't be salvaged.
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout
Be merry my friends
Be merry

BoxCrayonTales

#14
December 09, 2022, 12:07:16 PM
Liber Chaotica hasn't even been available for years. Announcing that they're not reprinting a book that was never reprinted for over a decade is a hollow statement
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