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    Default GW- pushing the licensing even further...

    Firstly, I should say, I am not pushing this as a cheap wind up. Secondly, I have absolutely no provenance for this - except it comes from a guy in a wargames group I go to who I trust, and this is how the story goes.

    On the group, he posts this link:

    [URL="http://www.dreamsaway.co.uk/#!warhammer-40000/c1p3b"]http://www.dreamsaway.co.uk/#!warhammer-40000/c1p3b[/URL]

    Which if you click it, should go to a sort of happy clappy 'head shop' selling dream catchers and that sort of tat. Anyhoo, at link they claim to be having a contract with GW to create 'exclusive licensed products'.

    The FB conversation with my contact say:

    'I would be very surprised if GW had licensed these'
    'Not in a million years lol'
    (him) 'Well I emailed GW it turns out they are lol'.

    So, on face value:

    A firm a pushing product is using GW IP

    The firm claims it is an exclusive contract

    My mate say he emailed GW and they confirmed it is legit.



    So, with Toy fairs etc, and now this licensing, is GW pushing the boundaries?
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    Interesting stuff.

    Got a mate who's a Space Woof fan, and he's moving house soon. Reckon that cushion would make a suitable house warming present.
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    According to their website, "Established in 2003 in Stoke-on-Trent, England, Nemesis Now have specialised in fantasy and gothic giftware for over a decade supplying gifts, collectables, novelties and wooden toys to gift shops, department stores, tourist attractions, retail chains, online retailers, garden centres, market traders throughout the UK, Europe and thirty five countries globally."

    And they have a page full of GW stuff: [URL="http://www.nemesisnow.com/nemesis-now-artist-ranges/games-workshop-warhammer-40000/"]http://www.nemesisnow.com/nemesis-now-artist-ranges/games-workshop-warhammer-40000/[/URL]

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    An Imperial Fist cushion does not sound comfortable!
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    Well, given that the below link is an official GW page pointing to basic print-on-demand stuff that anyone can do with, say, CafePress, I wouldn't be surprised:

    [url]http://licensing.games-workshop.com/spreadshirt-merchandise/[/url]

    It does feel a bit off, like they're spreading their brand a bit too much, and having some merchandise that feels kind of "cheap" might not help the view of their IP. But it's very believable that they'd use another route.

    I get the idea of making more money with their brand, but a better way would be to go through someone like Jinx. Might not make quite as much profit for them, but it looks better, and they can make sure people get quality products. For a company that talks up quality so much, you'd think that'd be important.

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    Default More food for thought..

    'I would be very surprised if GW had licensed these'
    'Not in a million years lol'
    (him) 'Well I emailed GW it turns out they are lol'.

    I've had this reaction too, and so have a number of other people. It gets rather grimdarkly amusing when you see stuff other gamers commenting on the same thing and posting their analysis.

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    I do like the journal, though most of these one has been able to do be uploading a jpeg to a relevant site for years. Like print your own coffee mugs etc.

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    Storm of Vengeance was one of the more unfortunate examples of them spreading their license all over the place for video games and tabletop games. Most of the tabletop games are fine (some are really good, and it's a shame you can't buy or play them in a GW store, so some of us had to play during lunch break or after the store closed at a nearby restaurant), but there are some stinkers in the video games, and some of them are just awful.

    It's getting them money to keep profits up, but it still causes potential harm to the IP, which they claim is super valuable. Short-term gain but potential long-term harm. Still, that harm only goes as far as people remembering something like SoV vs. remembering Vermintide, Mordheim, BFG, Blood Bowl I and II, etc. There's a clunk of a MOBA out there, but a lot of people don't even know about it. And there's the ever-morphing MMO that I believe is now a shooter where you fight for worlds, but who knows when that'll actually release or what it'll be like. (And then there's the sad tale of the RPG we'll never get to play.)

    If you want to see how crazy it is, go to their licensing site and check the number of licensed games. It'll take a moment to load all the icons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erik Setzer View Post
    And there's the ever-morphing MMO that I believe is now a shooter where you fight for worlds, but who knows when that'll actually release or what it'll be like. (And then there's the sad tale of the RPG we'll never get to play.)
    There's not really anything 'ever-morphing' about Eternal Crusade, they've been very upfront about what it was going to be basically since it was announced. They didn't say it in these terms exactly, but they've basically been describing a blend of Planetside 2 and Relic's Space Marine. And you can even play it now; it was in closed Alpha for founder's pack purchasers for a few months and has since gone Early Access on Steam. As such it's still a bit rough around the edges and playable Orkz and Eldar aren't in yet, but they're coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Boyle View Post
    There's not really anything 'ever-morphing' about Eternal Crusade, they've been very upfront about what it was going to be basically since it was announced. They didn't say it in these terms exactly, but they've basically been describing a blend of Planetside 2 and Relic's Space Marine. And you can even play it now; it was in closed Alpha for founder's pack purchasers for a few months and has since gone Early Access on Steam. As such it's still a bit rough around the edges and playable Orkz and Eldar aren't in yet, but they're coming.
    I was actually referring not to the specific game, but to the concept of a 40K MMO. IIRC, the original was going to be a more standard MMORPG, which then looked like it'd become a single-player RPG, and even that seems to have disappeared. It eventually landed on the current concept of an MMO FPS with factions fighting for control of planets (I assume that's still in there). I have no problem with that kind of game, could be fun (might be a beast to balance and remain "fluffy," though). But it *is* a good bit different from the first reports of a 40K-related MMO years ago. And it has gone through some changes. To be fair, a lot of MMOs do (see SWTOR for a great example, where the game gutted multiple features just before launch).

    I saw it's on Early Access, but given what that's like across the industry, I'll hold my money until I'm not paying to be a tester. Too many other games have made that a bad prospect, nothing against EC itself.

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