i've heard many people describe games workshop as being in a bad relationship
line cheating manipulating and i don't think those feelings are wrong although i do tend to
think anthropomorphizing a corporate entity like that lets them off the hook for all the nasty
things they do turning them into a person changes corporate greed into selfishness
conflict of interest in a manipulation and a slavish devotion to their shareholders greed
and games workshop can't change these problems the same way a bad friend can't but i digress
but i don't want to talk about that today because most people don't care and we're here to buy toys
dammit and i have some big ideas of what games earth shop could sell to us to make us happy again
so why do people leave games workshop the price but also other games does games workshop really
make the best games anymore i think it's a pretty darn close call a lot of companies are doing
very similar stuff we're already probably living in the golden age of games workshop
new models all the time old models are getting a refresh black library is crushing it
but why doesn't it feel golden why isn't game's workshop crushing it like they used to
well i tend to think it's because it kind of feels like we're at the end everything looks great
everything will continue to look great every new model coming out looks great it all looks great
great isn't great anymore it's the standard i'm here at adeptcon 2022 and i'm surrounded by tons
of awesome cool games and everything is great so if everything is great
why stick with games workshop well the easy answer is maybe don't
you could play malifo third edition you could play infinity by corvus belly you could play
war machine and hordes you could play fallout wasteland warfare or one of my favorite star
wars x-wing but i like warhammer and i wanted to succeed so how do we do that well games workshop
got here by making the best plastic models having the most games and being on the cutting edge
keyword they were on the cutting edge do you think that games workshop makes the best miniatures i
i think they make great miniatures i don't know if it's the best because there's a lot out there
especially with like 3d printing you can do a lot um i guess the best plastic miles in that scale
sure yeah i'm very spoiled on those uh i think that ever since i picked up doing modeling
they're definitely my favorite 100 yes i do do you think that games workshop makes the best models
absolutely 100 i don't think without them we would have the industry we have today yeah i would have
to say probably um they're not the best price but yeah i would definitely say they probably look
the best though do you think games workshop makes the best models they make good models
is game's workshop really still on the cutting edge their models are probably
about as good as it gets for plastics but is there really no more room for advancements
i don't think so in fact i have a couple of big ideas that i think could put games workshop
right back on top what if games workshop used metal for key components think about it metal
can be bent by hand so if things like tentacles tail hair tassels streamers were made of metal you
could bend them however you wanted to the left to the right figure eight crazy straw pretzel style
you could do anything the problem with metal is it's not really a scalable process and that's
why games workshop doesn't do it but it's not beyond the possibility to invent some sort of a
pewter injection system i can think of it which must mean it's possible and it'd be really cool
if gameserv shop is the only company with that tech and it doesn't necessarily have to be metal
there's some pretty cool thermoplastics out there and i'm sure they could come up with something
do you like metal models i actually don't mind metal models uh especially on the tabletop they
add a lot of weight to a miniature which makes them feel opposing you know i don't like seek
them out but i definitely don't mind them as much as i see people in my comment section
kind of minding them like they kind of treat them as like you know like voodoo like they're
taboo like i don't want to be involved in that but i don't mind metal models like my guild ball
minis are metal my infinity ones are metal and i don't really mind i don't have any problems
no i play skaven so a lot of their models are metal and just dealing with getting the
basically making sure they don't chip as they're being transported after being painted is
one of the hardest parts that i don't like resin models have the same problem
big brain idea number two bring back the banners bring back the banners i'm talking about big dumb
flags not bruce banner back in rogue trader you could hardly see the minions through the forest
of flags but nowadays you don't see them that much and i think that is a step in the wrong direction
the big problem with the banner is they are hard to paint freehanding them is next to impossible
and at the very least very very difficult but why paint them when you can print them out maybe games
or shop could give us some sort of an app probably hosted on their own website so they could bombard
us with their own advertising while us gamers spend hours and hours and hours carefully crafting
our perfect banner out of unique games workshop assets then we could print it out probably onto
cardstock or some sort of a paper that has some flexibility so that we could pose it for just the
right amount of flappiness do you like banners on minis uh not really i'm not really into it
too much but that's because i'm just a terrible painter yeah definitely what i do i don't like
it when like gw like scopes a bunch of [ __ ] on it i like it when it's flat and open and you can
like actually maybe do some free handing on there that's a good one like pre-sculpted or old school
i like the old-school ones the paper ones that's the way to go yeah you printed out you got all the
nice fancy designs that's the way to do it my next big innovative idea for games earth shop
is stickers hear me out i love decals but most people don't and a lot of people throw them away
which is probably why games workshop has been making less and less of them over the years
i'm looking at you space marines that only come with ultramarine's transfers
that one still hurts the problem with decals is that they are old school your dad's dad
probably put decals on his model airplanes what i am proposing is print a printed sticker on a
comparably thin sheet of plastic that way it'll be super easy to put on your models and you can
get rid of that harsh plastic edge with just a few coats of gloss paint that would definitely tempt
me after my model's done and looking spiffy i can break out my sticker book and start
to decorate my models with some peel and stick goodness have you ever put decals on your models
i have not i've never done a decal in my life oh i'm a freehand person i went to art school
so no actually i tried once and it was horrible and wrinkly and i didn't know how to do it so i
stopped have you ever put a decal on your models yeah i have maybe like once or twice yeah i will
uh put decals on every menu pretty much i just like it it adds a lot of detail that i'm not good
at putting in freehand so like unit markers and like uh you know like hazards and anything that
adds just a tiny more detailed model to give me my story on my stuff i'm looking for so have you ever
put a decal on your miniatures like once back in the day have you ever put a decal on your models
oh yeah yeah yeah yeah my next big idea for how to fix games or shop models is to make them more
poseable this would require tons more engineering on their part and probably make models take twice
as long to produce but it would be worth it if gamers were buying models purely for the
fun of building them some of the older kits do this okay the tower good most everything else is
bad but just try to imagine some more cool poses with some peg in slots maybe even some ball joints
that would be pretty dope action figure style baby things that give hobbyists total control
over their models games your shop has come up with a way to make models with incredibly tight
tolerances but it's never really been done in a 28 millimeter style but what if games workshop was
the one company to figure it out i like building models but i can't say i love it it's not nearly
as much fun as building a gundam it'd be a whole new level of engineering but if games are shot
pulls it off then i could have my orc in the perfect t-pose to assert dominance if it's wrong
to make my eldar warriors dab i don't want to be right do you wish the models had more posability
yes yes i have noticed with a lot of the miniatures that have assembled that limited
posability really limits what you're able to do with them oh yeah no i've i came back from way
long ago so like back in the day you can make your marines do like whatever if you post them actually
shooting if you post them at ease and stuff and nowadays it's all mono pose and while some of
them are really cool it'd be nice to have like one squad of all mono pose that look good uh when you
have two or three of the exact same squad and they all look kind of similar like that i don't know it
kind of takes away from it for me it takes away from the uniqueness of at least the mono poses
i actually really do like the mono pose that we get from gw now because they're way
more dynamic than we've ever had before and let's be real a space marine doing this or this isn't
really that big of a deal versus those new dynamic poses they have so i don't really care like i like
the new stuff yes there are definitely models i wish were more poseable great idea number i've
lost count make the models magnet ready i can't believe this isn't already a thing games workshop
has been making models for decades with way too many word gear options leaving it up to us poor
gamers to come up with creative solutions of how to get just a few options out of each box wysiwyg
is nice but most people don't care don't want to track down pins and drills online and don't want
to mangle their beautiful minis but game's earshop could just make the models come like that a little
hole in the arms and torso would be all it takes i would buy games or magnets if they were convenient
you could even make them in some obnoxious or proprietary size like 2.23 millimeters
and sure games workshop might argue that they'll miss out on repeat sales from people buying
multiple boxes to get extra ware gear options but does anybody actually do that i think people
really would buy magnet packs and word gear packs and games workshop you already sell a hobby drill
what do you think people are doing with that hobby drill they're drilling holes in your models
to insert other people's magnets have you ever thought about magnetizing your minis all the time
uh yes i magnetized an imperial knight to have it swap out weapon options i've planned
on doing a few but haven't gotten around to it yet a few others i try to avoid it but yes
have you ever magnetized your minions before i have yeah i'm uh magnetizing my titanic stuff
like in their mouths or like have you ever put magnets in your miniatures i used to back in
the day for a lot of magnets uh i've gone to the thing where i'm just old enough i'm just gonna
buy a second model if i want to change the loadout those are my ideas of how to make games workshop
models more interesting but here's another idea for free how about some actually good swag i'm not
talking about plush toys and candles i'm talking about actually cool props from the universe of 40k
how about a replica of an imperial throne jels the official currency of the imperium of man
or a full-sized bolt pistol people are ready to drop big money on forge
world thunderhawk gunships you're telling me they wouldn't drop money on a plasma pistol
people would go nuts for the severed talent of a jean steeler or a full-sized eldari helmet there's
clearly already a market for games workshop junk imagine how well an actual good product would do
i would pre-order a chain sword and it wouldn't just be cosplay nerds everybody wants a servo
skull watching over them while they paint would you buy 40k props from games workshop every day
every day if it's deathcore i will buy it if gamesworkshop made 40k props like for costumes
would you buy them no actually probably yeah honestly i would probably get a bolter and a chain
sword especially if the chain store was actually kind of like working and it had like the little
the things going i would i would 100 buy that yeah unfortunately i i cannot say no to that that
sounds great yeah i would i would buy some because it'd be cool set dressing for like a video set but
like if i was a normal consumer definitely not maybe if there was cool sisters of battle stuff
that i could i could cosplay sister's battle that would be fun that would be fun absolutely props
it'd probably be a bit too expensive but yeah i'd probably buy water too see this is how gamestop
recaptures the magic in this relationship prove to us that you can still surprise us because yes
everything is fine but fine is boring the new striping scorpions are going to be great the new
plastic corn berserkers are going to look great but who cares refreshes aren't refreshing they're
expected but what if games earthshop hit us with a curveball something that really made us thought
wow i didn't see that coming i was not expecting that and i wonder what they're gonna come out with
next i just threw a lot at you and is any of it reasonable or achievable i don't know but that's
how innovation an invention always is right now everything is good but that's just not cutting
the biscuits anymore slicing the bread churning the butter pouring the gravy jingling my bells
now i am never the one spotting the 3d printer doomsday scenarios but 3d printers can do
a lot of the things plastic can do it's getting pretty darn perfect and i think games are trap
has to improvise adapt and overcome oh you 3d printed your rollord that's cute does he have
super posable arms magnetized weapon options hand pose tentacles a super customized banner
and perfect sticker detailing no well i guess it's still pretty cool i can barely see the layer lines
that's how i think games workshop succeeds not by making the arguably best war gaming miniatures
but making the best most cutting edge toys this side of the mississippi if they do that then
i think people will be breaking down the door to give them money do you like games workshop games i
do and i don't at the moment do you like games workshop games yes uh i do actually i i'm kind
of a classicist mordheim was actually my favorite and i still love more time even though it's been
out of print for forever but uh i'm a fantasy fan as well so i haven't played the new iteration of
fantasy but i do play 40k a little bit i have an elder army i do i enjoy them in theory yeah these
days i play um warcry that's pretty much the only one right now do you enjoy games workshop games
i haven't played in a long time and when i did i had to rely on my friends to explain the rules
and every time they make me play with them i have to buy a new codex and i do not like that
because they get more expensive every time yes so basically games workshop please hire me i
am full of ideas offer is on the table and i work cheap 200 000 a year and i am yours
make me head of research and development ideas i have no actual applicable skills
i'm pretty good with the sewing machine and i make a mean egg salad sandwich thanks for
watching balls in your court games workshop the only question is do you have the balls