What's going on with warcom then?

[Mr Farson]

Allo

 

Many of you have surely noted that warcom is proper off at this point

 

Since aos 3.0 content for everything on warcom has dropped significantly from 2-3 articles per day to mostly once a day.

 

The holiday period shutdown usually kicks in around the start of December so it's a bit too early for that to be a real reason.

 

There isn't much coming out but there's also extremely limited restocking happening so what's production up to

 

Options

 

1. Something has gone proper wrong internally 

 

2. There's a super secret huge drop incoming shortly

 

3.Theyre stretched too thin across too many systems and a re organisation / great purge is coming again ( Specialist games in the 2000s for those whom remember)

[KJB]

Or, option 4, you're possibly reading too much into it?

Personally, I wouldn't really expect 3 articles per day when they're not releasing something major

Edited November 8 by KJB

[sarabando]

nah the quality and frequency is down. GW has either got something going on or they are giving up on "communication" again  probably because people arent just guzzling their *REDACTED*

[ZeroWolf]

2 hours ago, KJB said:

Or, option 4, you're possibly reading too much into it?

Personally, I wouldn't really expect 3 articles per day when they're not releasing something major

This is the simplest option, so is probably more correct (but it is the less fun option).

 

Warcom is probably quiet because they've been ramping stock up behind the scenes, especially with the Xmas boxes imminent and the new Lord of the Rings box also dropping. They will have made a lot of those ones probably, though I doubt we'll have a 2nd LotR bubble like the early 00s.

 

Also remember there is a preview show still to come this month.

 

(An important point here, if anything was up, you really expect someone to not have leaked it considering all the holes in GW? If it was a boat I wouldn't trust it to cross a large puddle without sinking).

[Indy Techwisp]

Option 5:
GW discovered that the WarCom team were leaking stuff early so they could put out more articles to keep the pace up, so they fired the lot and now the "Rogue Intern" is the only one left making articles, which have slowed down a ton as a result of the Intern still needing to add in all the "controversial" retcons and lore choices (This week was particularly slow because they were adding Female Ogryns to the Guard Codex).

[darkhorse0607]

I mean also something to consider, what do they actually have to market for the rest of the year?

 

A significant chunk of article space is spent on 40k. 40k, according to GW, has no releases for the rest of the year, meaning no more articles, or at least very few

 

Another chunk, is the Heresy. Releases are glacial for the Heresy, and they've now said that Heresy Thursday is Heresy Sometimes. So there's another chunk gone

 

AoS got it's release in the summer, so outside of whatever they call codices or boxes, there's nothing there

 

Ironically that leaves Blood Bowl, Kill Team, and LOTR. LOTR is coming, but that's not much of a hype machine. They're still missing releases for Kill Team (I think? I feel like it's a box behind. Someone please correct me, I've lost track honestly), and Blood Bowl gets releases.

 

They killed a significant amount of WHC articling just by freezing 40k, then if you add HH to that, it's sitting at what, 50-60% of the normal articles that aren't happening anymore. Also, WHC community is just marketing, so while yes they could supplement preview articles with other stuff (like they did a few years ago), that's not how they run things anymore

[HeadlessCross]

2 hours ago, sarabando said:

nah the quality and frequency is down. GW has either got something going on or they are giving up on "communication" again  probably because people arent just guzzling their *REDACTED*

The frequency has always fluctuated, but I 100% agree about quality gone downhill. 

[Redcomet]

It can be as simple as some of the staff having left or been sacked.

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

It has been quiet and this week especially so. 

 

Perhaps the leaks have led to the Warcom team not getting as much info and as such less material to make articles with. Perhaps some internal problems or reduced staff? It could just be that there are no 40k releases and GW has seemingly decided to just stop caring about HH for the moment. 

 

Maybe a combination. 

 

Such unexplained weirdness is fairly standard for GW though. I'm not even surprised when GW does stuff like this. 

 

On the plus side this quiet period is great for tackling the backlog!

[firestorm40k]

29 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said:

I mean also something to consider, what do they actually have to market for the rest of the year?

This. There's no more Codexes scheduled for the rest of this year (as far as I remember), I think for AoS there's only Slaves to Darkness, the only other big releases to promote are the Christmas Army Sets and the LOTR release. Nothing else yet for Heresy (just had Mechanicum in regular and smoll scale). Because of licensing agreements and embargoes GW won't be able to really promote the new LOTR stuff until the film studio wants them to, likely nearer to it's release. 

 

So, in a nutshell, when there is stuff for them to hype up, they'll ramp up content. 

 

As @The Praetorian of Inwit says, it's a bit of a welcome respite and a chance to concentrate on the backlog for once..! 

[HeadlessCross]

1 hour ago, ZeroWolf said:

This is the simplest option, so is probably more correct (but it is the less fun option).

 

Warcom is probably quiet because they've been ramping stock up behind the scenes, especially with the Xmas boxes imminent and the new Lord of the Rings box also dropping. They will have made a lot of those ones probably, though I doubt we'll have a 2nd LotR bubble like the early 00s.

 

Also remember there is a preview show still to come this month.

 

(An important point here, if anything was up, you really expect someone to not have leaked it considering all the holes in GW? If it was a boat I wouldn't trust it to cross a large puddle without sinking).

There's a preview of stuff happening in November? That's news to me

[darkhorse0607]

1 hour ago, HeadlessCross said:

There's a preview of stuff happening in November? That's news to me

They said at the last preview there was one in November but as far as I know they didn't say when. Then there should (using the past few years) be a Black Library one in December

[Lord Marshal]

3 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

They said at the last preview there was one in November but as far as I know they didn't say when. Then there should (using the past few years) be a Black Library one in December

 

Iirc they said it would be at the Grand Narrative, so probably on the 23rd. 

[Kaede45]

6 hours ago, Indy Techwisp said:

(This week was particularly slow because they were adding Female Ogryns to the Guard Codex).

I’m honestly interested in what lore there is about female Ogryns (prior to any retcons). I’ve never really come across anything about them, which I do find odd given that it’s easy to assume there must be some out there.

[Evil Eye]

1 hour ago, Kaede45 said:

I’m honestly interested in what lore there is about female Ogryns (prior to any retcons). I’ve never really come across anything about them, which I do find odd given that it’s easy to assume there must be some out there.

I think they're one of those things that obviously exists but has never really gotten any exploration, as frankly I can't see female Ogryns selling particularly well; my understanding is that Ogryns were never THAT popular to begin with, and "big ugly stupid smelly ogre women" is hardly going to move mountains of merch, be it minis or books.

[Beta galactosidase]

There two descriptions of ogryn women I can name.  A Nate Crowley novel called gazghkull thraka: prophet of the Waaagh has an inquisitorial henchman named Cassia.

 

The second is that an illustrator of prominent Black Library covers (Horus Rising) has a completely personal and unofficial website where he details a wildly divergent version of the Imperial Guard and includes a drawing of an ogryn woman in guard uniform.

 

Obviously any posts about ogryn women are hyperbolic at best.  The gender ratio in the Monglor Ogryn Auxilia is as well documented as in the Kanak Skull Takers: not well.

[Gamiel]

23 hours ago, HeadlessCross said:

The frequency has always fluctuated, but I 100% agree about quality gone downhill. 

Will have to disagree, articles like the Regimental Gourmand are gold.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

On 11/8/2024 at 6:05 PM, Indy Techwisp said:

Option 5:
GW discovered that the WarCom team were leaking stuff early so they could put out more articles to keep the pace up, so they fired the lot and now the "Rogue Intern" is the only one left making articles, which have slowed down a ton as a result of the Intern still needing to add in all the "controversial" retcons and lore choices (This week was particularly slow because they were adding Female Ogryns to the Guard Codex).

Be careful what you wish for...

 

CHAOS RENEGADES OF PAIN MOMMA OGRUNS – Wargame Exclusive

 

Snu_Snu incoming!

[Evil Eye]

18 hours ago, Deus_Ex_Machina said:

Be careful what you wish for...

 

CHAOS RENEGADES OF PAIN MOMMA OGRUNS – Wargame Exclusive

 

Snu_Snu incoming!

Those might be the first WGE "cheesecake" models I can safely say I'd actually buy!

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Chaos Ogryns would be very cool. I don't really know much about Ogryns but surely it would be possible for them to be corrupted? Chaos is Chaos after all. 

[ThaneOfTas]

On 11/9/2024 at 4:05 AM, Indy Techwisp said:

Option 5:
GW discovered that the WarCom team were leaking stuff early so they could put out more articles to keep the pace up, so they fired the lot and now the "Rogue Intern" is the only one left making articles, which have slowed down a ton as a result of the Intern still needing to add in all the "controversial" retcons and lore choices (This week was particularly slow because they were adding Female Ogryns to the Guard Codex).

Ahh yes, that dastardly "Rogue Intern" Powerful enough to make crazy changes without getting caught, unimportant enough that they don't represent GWs "real" views. Their perfidiousness truly knows no bounds.

[TheMawr]

8 hours ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

Chaos Ogryns would be very cool. I don't really know much about Ogryns but surely it would be possible for them to be corrupted? Chaos is Chaos after all. 

 

GW agrees

 

 

Has rules for both kill team and 40k ( not even legends rules, proper codex ones, but he does always come with his human pet.)

 

previously FW had chaos ogryns too, I think their rules are legended though (cant get the downloads to work this evening.)

 

edit :

the Model is part of the blooded kill team currently, and was seperate, with his pet, in a WHQ blackstone fortress expansion previously.

Edited November 11 by TheMawr

[Dark Shepherd]

Simon who does the Battle Reports was in charge of warcom (content) or was one of main peeps so might be he is just busy with W+ or some other reorganization

 

Or they are focusing more on their social media?