kyussinchains wrote:
splash wrote:
Apocolocyntosis wrote:
splash wrote:
There's one thing to remember. The Epic situation won't get worse, it can only improve with this release.
I'm pretty pessimistic on this point (and ill probably still buy the new game). GW being more active in the epic area may well be damaging to the community.
But how so?
my 2 pence:
recruitment of new players to EA will most likely be tougher due to the 'big shiny' effect, lots of people play GW games do so to use the models (I mean their core rules are pretty awful compared to most other rulesets out there, even the EA rules are *full* of annoying holes and vague wording which drives me MAD sometimes, this is not to say they aren't fun and enjoyable, but their rules are hardly groundbreaking or elegant) and AT will almost certainly have a bigger player base due to it being on display in white dwarf and in stores, people who want to get into the small-scale stuff will be shepherded into AT as there will be more people talking about it
we also have to be aware that GW may get territorial and begin asking people to stop hosting the EA rules on places like the net-armageddon and epicuk sites, which again removes a resource that it's easy to point people at and say 'download the rules here'. People are less likely to get into the hobby when they have to start emailing people they don't know for rules
Hi!
Very valid analysis and worries.
I have thought this about net epic over the years and we've worked on it enough to have it "ingrained" in our player base. Not a heavy lift given the anti-GW sentiment amongst most Net Epic fans.
Hopefully EA has influenced and inserting itself enough into the player base it appeals to make the new game offering a moot issue.
It will test how "loyal" its adherents are and if the endeavor is to endure this can only fortify it.
Look a it in the same vein as what Net Epic did when EA came out. We made Gold and that is the current "Stock" version. Perhaps EA should make its own consolidated version as a counter offer to the "new".
Also, net epic has always been prepared to issue a trademark free version of the rules (our continuous scrutiny by GW seems to have passed muster and was not necessary), perhaps the EA hierarchy needs such a contingency plan in case GW gets "frisky".
In my opinion at least, EA has nothing to fear from the new game.
Primarch
