Supposed info leaks from GW

[ZeroWolf]

15 minutes ago, phandaal said:

 

There was that leak back in 2021 that basically laid out the entire roadmap for 9th edition 40k, including the relaunch of Squats. Where did that one originate?

I knew it as the bolter and chainsword leak, so I'm guessing here.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

I found the ones I was thinking of:

https://natfka.blogspot.com/2021/12/updated-rumor-1109-compilation-40k.html?m=1

 

If you scroll to the very bottom there's a set of leaks from 'Juggernut' which now sound well off. AT being squatted, no chance of (what we now know as Legions Imperialism) happening etc.

 

There's a lot of other leaks on that page though that were spot on at a cursory glance.

[terminator ultra]

I can see underworld getting disconyuied in the form of no new warbands, just like blood bowl a while back.

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Just because things are out of stock on the GW website doesn't men they are selling well. It depends on how many GW are manufacturing. LI could be out of stock because of minuscule production runs not overwhelming demand. 

 

I don't know why people are so against the idea of GW leaking things themselves. You are all aware that multi-national corporations do do this and GW being based in the UK doesn't make them an exception. I'm not saying they are doing it, just that it would be foolish to categorically rule it out. 

 

After the AoS debacle it should be obious that just because you have models in plastic, or a part of a well known and popular faction, that you are safe. If it isn't selling GW will axe it. It is very feasible that they may look to cut models that aren't selling so they can manufacture greater quantities of those that are. 

 

These are likely just fake but all of them could be plausible if you actually think about it. 

[Robbienw]

13 minutes ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

Just because things are out of stock on the GW website doesn't men they are selling well. It depends on how many GW are manufacturing. LI could be out of stock because of minuscule production runs not overwhelming demand. 

 

 

By no metric can you claim something is not selling well if you sell out your entire run.  Under production does not equal poor sales.

[ZeroWolf]

Even if they made limited quantities, GW will still see it selling out as a success. Not a success would be producing limited quantities and having plenty left.

[TheVoidDragon]

3 hours ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

Just because things are out of stock on the GW website doesn't men they are selling well. It depends on how many GW are manufacturing. LI could be out of stock because of minuscule production runs not overwhelming demand. 

 

 

 

It doesn't matter how big the production run was though, it literally couldn't have sold better if they sold out the stock. Whether they made a small production run or a big one, it means it matched their expectations at the very least. And I doubt they'd estimate extremely low (you'd think they'd estimate their products to be a success rather than commit to something they don't expect will sell in the first place) and then only make that exact amount of stock and no more.

Edited April 11 by TheVoidDragon

[The Scorpion]

On 4/9/2024 at 8:55 AM, Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla said:

 

I would also like to point out that as far as Chorfs are concerned, the "leak" does seem to think that the release will not have much in common with the original aesthetic, not so much that it's not happening at all - they are, as I understand, undergoing hard aosification. Even in 40k take Votann vs og Squats, whose only thing in common is being Dwarves in Space.

 

 

Or maybe the 'leaker' made it up and it's perfectly curated Bait

Edited April 11 by The Scorpion

[Mr Farson]

On 4/11/2024 at 5:45 PM, TheVoidDragon said:

I'm wondering, have any rumours that first appeared on that site actually ever turned out to be true? I really can't remember anything that originated there and actually was right.

 

 

There's been a few to be honest 

 

Cursed city was name dropped on 4 chan with a description before anything related to was announced or teased 

[The Scorpion]

I guess we will have to wait a fistful of months to say if these rumors had any worth at all

[Dark Shepherd]

Am not sure where to find the exact breakdown again but when people say shareholders want this and that; something like 93% of the shares are owned by less than a dozen hedgefunds/investment houses

Once profits stay increasing Id say they require very little placating or interfere very little

 

They like things in reports like new revenue stream opened up, Amazon this, licensing deal that, W+ subscribers increased, 7m visitors a month to warcom etc

[Naryn]

On 4/11/2024 at 4:56 PM, The Scorpion said:

Or maybe the 'leaker' made it up and it's perfectly curated Bait

Perfectly curated bait is right, this leak seems aimed to hit every major bugbear that the 40k community loves to chew on, and for that reason alone it's too perfectly incendiary to be credible. I'm surprised they didn't include re-releasing Primaris marines at a larger scale and rewriting them to be all-female in their bogus list, just to complete the rogue's gallery of 40k boogeymen.

[Schurge]

Grey Knights are the last faction I've maintained any interest in. Hopefully that rumor isn't true.

[Guest Triszin]

My dad works at Nintendo levels.

Yawn

[MegaVolt87]

Depending where you are in the world, LI and the Old World releases feel like a paper launch because of the stock issues. Also its 4chins, Anon OOP is questionably true and real but more likely..... 

[The Scorpion]

On 4/20/2024 at 8:32 PM, Naryn said:

Perfectly curated bait is right, this leak seems aimed to hit every major bugbear that the 40k community loves to chew on, and for that reason alone it's too perfectly incendiary to be credible. I'm surprised they didn't include re-releasing Primaris marines at a larger scale and rewriting them to be all-female in their bogus list, just to complete the rogue's gallery of 40k boogeymen.

It sounded moderately believable at first, but I think Anon overplayed his hand with the whole Chorf thing

[Halandaar]

On 4/11/2024 at 8:39 PM, terminator ultra said:

I can see underworld getting disconyuied in the form of no new warbands, just like blood bowl a while back.

 

The same Blood Bowl that received a full new plastic team along with star players, pitch, dice and all the other ancillary gubbins literally 2 weeks ago? 

[gaurdian31]

46 minutes ago, Halandaar said:

 

The same Blood Bowl that received a full new plastic team along with star players, pitch, dice and all the other ancillary gubbins literally 2 weeks ago? 

I agree, I don't see Underworlds or Blood Bowl going away any time soon. I do wish 40k got versions of both, but more specifically Underworlds.

[Noserenda]

No idea if i posted it earlier but as i understand it Blood Bowl has a huge and dedicated following, its just hard to translate that into sales sometimes, like even if they bought every team thats not quite a 40k army still i think? Thats why they have lots of extras like cards/dice/pitches for the people who dont buy much else. One of my extended hobby group being that kind of person just has a stack of pitches on a bookshelf :D 

[The Scorpion]

1 hour ago, Noserenda said:

No idea if i posted it earlier but as i understand it Blood Bowl has a huge and dedicated following, its just hard to translate that into sales sometimes, like even if they bought every team thats not quite a 40k army still i think? Thats why they have lots of extras like cards/dice/pitches for the people who dont buy much else. One of my extended hobby group being that kind of person just has a stack of pitches on a bookshelf :D 

Doesn't that same logic apply no Necromunda as well though? I've heard that Necromunda is selling well, leaks not withstanding

[Noserenda]

1 hour ago, The Scorpion said:

Doesn't that same logic apply no Necromunda as well though? I've heard that Necromunda is selling well, leaks not withstanding

Necromunda was the SGS top seller for years and its also Andy H's favourite game, i wouldnt expect that to go anywhere! It also has a lot more follow on purchases unlike blood bowl, you might want several boxes of gangers, special characters, vehicles etc etc even if you stick with one gang :) Like, my gene cult now fills an entire shelf of my Ikea cabinet alongside a bunch of hangers on and im both poor and have not played since before Ash wastes came out :D 

[WrathOfTheLion]

11 hours ago, The Scorpion said:

It sounded moderately believable at first, but I think Anon overplayed his hand with the whole Chorf thing

There's a few other things, like cutting primers back to a list including Iron Warriors, when Leadbelcher is the silver primer they use. A few other things are why would ad mech lose units, when their codex has already been released? I doubt that decision has been made for 11E, when we're less than a year into 10E...

 

As you read it more, there's more and more discrepencies like that which don't make sense.

[terminator ultra]

23 hours ago, Halandaar said:

The same Blood Bowl that received a full new plastic team along with star players, pitch, dice and all the other ancillary gubbins literally 2 weeks ago? 

*in the early 2000s

[Helias_Tancred]

I choose to take it all with a grain of salt. Thank you.

 

Only time will tell how accurate that was? For me personally I could care less about most of it except for the idea the Grey Knights are going away as a singular 40k faction that you can field as an army, and that in AoS Fyreslayers may be exiting at some not too distant point? My good friend collects and plays them, and he only recently got into them.

 

The latter being .. so far a new trend coming out of Nottingham? Getting rid of complete factions. I get it if you don't want to make the models anymore but customers spent hundreds of dollars on your product only for you to make it unusable? I'd still give them rules. Same for Beastmen in AoS. So people's collections are not useless as per current rules?

Edited May 2 by Helias_Tancred

[Halandaar]

 

1 hour ago, Helias_Tancred said:

I'd still give them rules. Same for Beastmen in AoS. So people's collections are not useless as per current rules?

 

Beastmen are getting rules for AoS4:

 

"Two factions, Beasts of Chaos and Bonesplitterz, as well as a number of older Stormcast Eternals from the Sacrosanct and Warrior chambers, will be receiving free-to-download digital battletomes. These will feature new background and rules, and will be considered legal for use in competitive play until summer 2025."

 

Anyway, regarding removal of factions, the Grey Knights thing doesn't even make any sense. Sure if they were going to just remove them from the whole game then that's one thing, but what is gained by preventing them from being run as a standalone army but maintaining them as an allied choice for other armies? They'd still have to write and print rules for them so why not just sell a Codex? 

 

Frankly the idea that GW would do the design work to enable people to run GK units and then not take the opportunity to sell it to us in a premium-priced hardback book every three years gives this whole thing away as absolute nonsense.