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[Marshal Rohr]

5 hours ago, Warden-Paints said:

A lot of this stuff just sounds like typical office drama. I don't get why it always has to equal Games Workshop being a toxic hellhole. I cringe a bit when Peachy and others go on and on about management problems as if many companies don't have the same issues. 

 

Also though, I absolutely live for this kind of gossip so keep it coming, I lap it up. 

It very much is office drama, but none of you want to hear about our engineer that refuses to take accountability for his project and keeps blaming the new girl because it doesn’t impact your hobby. They had to pull the switcheroo on the old CEO to get the Knight Paladin made, and there have been multiple testimonials of something players want in miniature not happening because one single person in GW is stopping it (dwarf tank comes to mind, chapter upgrades for the longest time, Jes Goodwin punting older armor marks for mark X)

 

edit: my point is GW office drama can very frequently be the exact thing standing between you and happiness. Bob in marketing doesn’t want to make how to paint Titan videos with an airbrush? You don’t get one. Mike the sculptor thinks we don’t need mixed weapons in support units and everything should be like a video game? Hello Hellblasters goodbye devastators. 
 

GW office drama is often what stands between you and Warhammer being perfect. 

Edited June 22 by Marshal Rohr

[Antarius]

5 hours ago, Marshal Rohr said:

GW office drama is often what stands between you and Warhammer being perfect. 

That is the impression people have, yeah. The reality is, warhammer (or indeed, anything else) is never going to be perfect, but the interpersonal drama is a very obvious point to fixate on, so people do. People love to think that if only *this one thing* was different, everything would be perfect, and so they tend to lay everything at the feet of one person/factor, because that's just a very human tendency. It's also very unlikely to be the case, but I'm definitely guilty of it myself, from time to time. That's why things get so polarized so quickly.
I still think we should be super wary of going along with that tendency, however, because it mostly just creates more drama and unhappiness.

Edited June 22 by Antarius

[Marshal Rohr]

You are totally right, that is true in most cases. The vast majority of them, even. My mind does stick on those examples I listed though, because those were all huge things that came down to a bottleneck decision by one or a just a handful of people. The old CEO was adamant a knight would never work, and it went off like gangbusters when they actually did it. The decisions to can Warmaster as revenge on Andy C for Epic not panning out by the board is another - Warmaster was arguably a better vehicle for epic scale battles than Epic itself since it was ranked infantry. The fact the big four chapter are still pretty much the ONLY four goes back to Jes sticking to four archetypes. Jes is obviously THE MAN but even he can sometimes not do something that would be popular with a large number of people simple because he doesn’t think it’s needed or would work or would double dip.