"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.
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.
Mass market grimdark.
Don't like Warhammer, but this is pretty bad. Hopefully Games Workshop goes under and explodes.
Every time I think about getting into Warhammer, GW does something to dissuade me. This is one of those times.
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."
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.
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 (https://electriccartilage.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/the-celestial-terrestrial-and-the-diabolic-the-three-faction-archetype/). 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.
...and the Chaos Gods laughed.
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...
Amusingly GW's rise to power came as a result of being transgessive when D&D was trying to be family friendly.
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.
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.
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.
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
I guess presenting Polymorphous Perversity as bad is now Problematic.
Should have just released the Lesbians of Color rebel Space Marines Squad. Then if that sold sell a bunch of other rebel squads catered to the woke. If they sell you eventually have a new army and backstory of the great rebellion, etc, etc, without screwing your brand entirely. If they don't sell you know the woke threats are all hot air.
Welp, One Page Rules has you covered so you can switch pretty easy
Warhammer: 40,000 Genders
In the 41st Millenium, there is only Woke!
Now that I think of it they don't really need to change anything. It is not a difficult stretch to imagine the totalitarian Imperium as Communist. Even the traders have to be rogues to survive.