Are content creators getting too close to Games Workshop? What does this mean for the 'community'?

Not a single criticism in the entire vid. Truly GW must have made another perfect game!

That video is lol. I like all the buzz words tossed around "Fast, Quicker, I'm not standing around waiting, Simple, Simplistic, Simplicity etc..." fool me once.

I don't see much room for tactical manouvering in Spearhead. All these people were invited to the preview event and want to keep access. I slag GW off too much to ever be one of those people. I can't really trust most of them. One or two there that i would trust the opinion of but even they would be watching their words. They are playing the game. .and i dont mean AOS.

Something really weird that GW constantly bring up is how fast and quick the game is. They just keep honing in on fast simple games and idk I joined the hobby to play warhammer not checkers

Spearhead is the wargame equivalent of magic the gathering. Every few months there will be a new meta just like bustin packs. Why even have models. It could all be played as a card game.

Wait do AOW actually get codexes and rulesets, missions etc 4-6 weeks before everyone else?

This what happened to gaming and entertainment journalism. This is the reason the new star wars show has a 90% critic review and 12% audience review. The "critics" who cozy up to "establishment" and get invited to events and get early access literally have a reason to upsell the product a make company look good which makes them look good which makes company looks good. I put this 100% on content creators. Even tho they are a company similiar to gw. They arnt a corporation and its literally thier job to speak for all of us

"I think this game that GW have given me for free is absolutely marvellous and brilliant in every way, you should buy it with your own money..." 😂

Absolutely. When paying the bills revolves around GW there’s always going to be some bias.

Good old RT. Crazy stuff. Good times. If you havent seen a copy of the Realm of Chaos books... Art work is amazing...well mostly lol

VT showed how in bed they are with the custodes(?) release. The full rules leaked and Box complained on a stream about people leaking it affected VTs review videos about the codex performance numbers and hit their ad revenue. All these channels rarely get out from under the GWs desk that their opinion is rarely worth anything.

I stopped watching AoW for reasons discussed in this ep. But i stopped watching months ago probably around last wtc season. The reason was the aggressive member tier system promising more and more access. Felt very weird. Then an ep i was listening to was censored in a weird way and since then i respect the players and look at lists but dont watch the content

Yes

Yeah most of those who review GW stuff are deep in GWs pockets.

It is interesting to see what everybody is saying about the new edition, although I can’t say if it is going to get me hooked. Aos 3.0 kinda lost me thanks to the skaven stuff that got released being quit unskaveny (the rules where literally following the concept of the waldorf school) And currently the old world got me hooked so yeah lets see if aos 4.0 is getting me back (although I’m not certain it’ll get rid of my interest for the old world, which is a really cool game just not easy to learn😂😅)

Is any GW game really that good? They're all mid at best but have good models and pretty rule books.

They are TOs organizers and/or content creators, so their opinion about new AOS is not fair. GW "pay" them by different ways (boxes, rumours, etc)

No competitive players in the vid. I watched one bat rep from a comp channel that said if you get behind turn 1, it's really hard to come back and the new double turn mechanic really disincentives you from taking it if you're behind. It looks like going first and having a "i have all the objectives, come and take them" game plan is the way to go. Now I know why they weren't invited to the video.

The problem with GW adopting modern marketing etc is they're always so late to the party it kind of makes it less effective. Like you see exactly what they're doing and then feel like they're quite incompetent for just getting round to it.

I kinda want an army but I'm bored of Victory point based games.