Originally Posted by
Path Walker
Lex, we don't know how well Corvus Belli are doing, they don't publish any figures for people with no understanding of them to pour over. People thought Dropzone Commander was doing well until the owner of Hawk Wargames revealed last week that they're tens of thousands of pounds in the red and operating at a massive loss. Corvus Belli could be too for all you know, I'd be very surprised if they were making much money at all to be honest but we don't and won't know that unless they choose to tell us. Sales doesn't mean profit but a lack of profit does mean an end to operating. GW sales are down, yup, like every luxury product in the Eu (from where GW generates at least 50% of its sales so yeah, that's going to have a big impact) but it's in profit and has been for years, which is what a business needs.
I know there is no point trying to explain is, you've proven time and time again that unless it's echoing the idea you've held for years that GW are going out of business because they're not doing things the way you like them, you won't let pesky things like facts or evidence get in the way.
The point is, a few people might complain about balance, you've seen here that someone is saying Dark Eldar are useless because you can't use them like Space Marines, but most players want their armies to be different and play in interesting ways. We could easily have a game where identical armies fight each other and get more balance but people don't want that and, more importantly, GW don't want to make that game and as Mystery says, they never, ever have. (Cue someone saying "well what about GWs tournaments?!" ) They weren't competitive events in the sense players mean it now, they were scored based on hobby, fluff and sportsmanship scores more than winning games, the idea of competing to win a hobby just wasn't thought of as important back then at least not in Nottingham. The objective of the game is the won, the aim is for two or more people to have fun, if you ignore the second to ensure the first, you're not playing the game GW made, that's fine if that's what you care about and your opponent feels the same but don't complain when you've chosen to make the game something it isn't and are finding it isn't working properly.