Warhammer 40k
A community dedicated to the universe of Warhammer 40k, a tabletop setting in the far, distant future.
This is a general community for 40k miniatures, art, lore discussion, and gameplay discussion.
Rules
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Keep it civil. Don’t insult other community members in posts or comments, and don’t make posts designed to insult other community members or parts of the fandom with different opinions.
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Posts must be on-topic.
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No real life politics. That means no political advocacy, and no real life political discussions vaguely dressed up as on-topic posts. If you want to discuss real life politics, you are free to start your own community.
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No memes/low-effort spam/Youtube poops style posts. grimdank is a place for those.
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Posts must be coherent.
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If a post is otherwise allowed but has realistic gore or nudity, please mark it NSFW.
Helpful Links
- 10th Edition Rules
- iOS Warhammer 40k App
- Android Warhammer 40k App
- 3rd party site for running Kill Team games
Related 40K Communities:
!imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world
Other tabletop hobby communities:
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How is this not literally in the contract when working with q specific IP?
I'm surprised it's not a thing for this. Games Workshop is generally pretty protective of their IP. They license it out like crazy, but generally in pretty restricted bits unless you prove some level of respect.
“We want to broaden the appeal to bring more people into the universe so when we make more content tangentially related to the IP more people watch them.”
It’s step 2 of the enshittification steps for media companies. Step 3 is blaming the fans when they say they don’t like the new stuff because it’s totally different from what they loved.
Games Workshop is really good at doing 2 and 3, they destroyed an entire setting and profuct line doing it.
The people who pay to use the IP put up so much money that it has to be crowd sourced among a few rich people/orgs. The money doesn't care about the property, only the opportunity to leverage this into more money. They are paying for an opportunity.
With this opportunity they make a product that uses the nouns of the source material with varying levels of concern for the output. Not all money is the same and some care about the deliverable more than others. Compare Sony comic book movies to Disney and you can see what having a big comics nerd like Feige can do to keep it true to the material while keeping the content new.
Netflix didn't care about what fans consider truth. They wanted content for their catalogue. Most makers of media don't care about what they make as long as it's popular and any lawsuits don't drain the gains.
Seeking a mythical "wider, modern audience" rather than appealing to the core fans.
It is an excellent strategy to alienate everyone and thank an IPs value, to be used as a tax write-off.