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The Specialist Games plug is being pulled, it would seem...

Started by MarcoSkoll, April 29, 2013, 06:34:40 PM

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Koval

At the present time, only Dannica, Barbaretta, and the Eversor are left on GW's store.

MarcoSkoll

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... aaaaaaand that's right about it.

They've rebooted the GW webstore. No trace of the Specialist Games is to be seen - some of the downloads for other SGs (everything for Inquisitor is missing) can still be found on their server via Google, but good luck trying to find them through their site. (The same thing applies to all the core game FAQs).
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greenstuff_gav

boo for lack of support, huzzah for your archive!
and my archive of 54mm miniatures.. must order silicone...
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Kallidor

I thought it was pretty strange that, giving the huge amount of fans for various Specialist Games, that GW has cleared all trace of them from the website. It's a shame they couldn't have found a way to keep these games alive. Oh well.
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Heroka Vendile

The games themselves might be dead in the eyes of GW - but you can bet they'll still cash in on the licenses - after all we're about to get a new Bloodbowl computer game - and a 2nd space hulk computer game. Nevermind all the FF creations.
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Kallidor

Someone at GW obviously recognises the appeal of these games and if I could get Steam on my stupid dongle then I'd have the Space Hulk game by now. You'd think though that with all the 3D modelling that GW are doing these days that they could have produced a few plastic models for these games, imagine some 54mm plastic kits?! At the very, very least, they could have an archive section with the PDFs of the rulebooks and resources on the website, I don't think hosting that material would have blown the bank at GW, it does seem odd to me.  :-\
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greenstuff_gav

i know there's Yakromunda (necro), Tactical Command (epic)and The Conclave have archives, but i'm sad for Mordheim, Gothic and Gorkamorka!

also, why is WHQuest i-devices only?! ARG! :lol:
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Necris

There was a small scale in serious discussions and negotiations with licensing the specialist games for outside production

But it seems to have never got off the ground
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Necris

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on April 12, 2014, 11:06:34 PM
i know there's Yakromunda (necro), Tactical Command (epic)and The Conclave have archives, but i'm sad for Mordheim, Gothic and Gorkamorka!

also, why is WHQuest i-devices only?! ARG! :lol:

Because all of their app games are awful, running an iPad air and they still crash every 5 mins.

Piss poor testing and even worse support
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MarcoSkoll

Quote from: Kallidor on April 12, 2014, 04:08:19 AMgiving the huge amount of fans for various Specialist Games
I think "huge" is rather relative.

Part of the problem is that there's not really any metric for this - even GW doesn't really know how many SG players there are. Most of the SG relates sales for a good long time have got to have been hidden.
A Necromunda gang, Mordheim warband or Blood Bowl team converted from the core range boxed sets (as opposed to using the the heavily diminished and generally rather dated official ranges) shows up as WH40K or WHFB sales. Similarly for the fast growing 28mm Inquisitor community.

With nothing left to prove any rate of SG related sales, it's easy to justify not spending money on the bandwidth to support these games.

Quote from: Heroka Vendile on April 12, 2014, 08:45:52 PMNevermind all the FF creations.
Yes, well - there are a lot of people out there who're convinced that Dark Heresy is a replacement for Inquisitor.

And I don't think so. DH's enjoyable in its own right, but it's a fairly typical RPG - Inquisitor's offer of writing an entire cast of characters fully formed is a much more unique experience.
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greenstuff_gav

and ironically i think the average price for 54mm figures now is about £20 second hand; pretty much what GW were charging before they went OOP...

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on April 12, 2014, 11:57:40 PM
And I don't think so. DH's enjoyable in its own right, but it's a fairly typical RPG - Inquisitor's offer of writing an entire cast of characters fully formed is a much more unique experience.
aye; RPGs are a great medium but some of us want to push toy soldiers about! :)

also, howsat for coinkidink Marco; that Daniel Owen bitching on friendface is complaining about me telling him to play more games than just infinity :lol:
i love how apaprently suggesting that other games exist equated to "BUY MOAR 40K!"  ::)
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MarcoSkoll

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on April 13, 2014, 12:09:19 AMRPGs are a great medium but some of us want to push toy soldiers about! :)
That too.

Quotealso, howsat for coinkidink Marco; that Daniel Owen bitching on friendface is complaining about me telling him to play more games than just infinity
But Infinity is teh awesum! :P
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Captain L. Rollin: "Nonsense. Never heard of it."
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MarcoSkoll

Each to their own, I guess - I personally think it's a very enjoyable ruleset. Got involved with my first tournament(s) about three weeks back and didn't have any trouble keeping pace (even came #2 in Saturday's team play, although much of the credit must go to my assigned team mate).

But then, when it comes to rules complexity, I guess I'm the kind of person who can quote the Inquisitor ruleset near verbatim...

Also, yes, they are nice models (mostly). It doesn't stop me covering them in ludicrous amounts of green stuff though.
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Captain L. Rollin: "Nonsense. Never heard of it."
Birgen: "Pick a window. I'll demonstrate".

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DapperAnarchist

Infinity models have a lot of potential, but they utter lack a consistent tone. Even with the weird variety of man-tanks, green gorillas, fetish space elves, WWI human ammunition, and whatever else, 40K manages some kind of tone. How can you have space-scotsmen with literal kilts in the same model range as Islamic nationalist blackops and transhuman combat forms? Also, werewolves.
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