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H.B.M.C. wrote:Some folks here would have you believe that their secrecy is due to a fear that if they reveal anything (anything!) that another company will copy their design and have it on shelves before the GW one is on sale.
I like to laugh at these folks. They make my time at Dakka all the more enjoyable.
I'm sure GW will have copyright on everything they release and therefore no-one would be allowed to copy design/names of stuff...
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"The stars themselves once lived and died at our command yet you still dare oppose our will. "-Farseer Mirehn Biellann
Armies at 'The Stand-still Point':
Cap'n Waaagggh's warband (Fantasy Orcs) 2250pts. Waaagghhh! in full flow... W-D-L=10-3-3
Kilkrazy wrote:I strongly doubt the IP would last 20 minutes without the wargamers to support it.
The Dawn of War video games made some money, but I agree their cash cow is in the game. However, it saddens me to think they have some very good original science fiction material that could be brought into some really awesome computer animated series, but they don't. Then again they'd probably ruin it and make it PG-13 anyway, and we all know to make a good 40K series it would have to be TV-MA. The marketing derpers will convince the producers that a larger audience will be met at PG-13.
Live action movies would be super expensive. Imagine if showtime or HBO or some other network allowed them to put out a TV-MA animated series, and I would still think the Horus Hersey is the best place to start. They could introduce the Emperor, the Space Marines, you could get a feel for it, then they could bring in Chaos and chapters would fall, and civil war.
I think their biggest problem would be a balance to please the fan boys (who would watch it anyway but complain) and the newbies who have never heard of 40K. Perhaps that is why they haven't tried to push for it yet. Heck they could even start out just doing a Space Hulk movie, that would be a good introduction that doesn't need a deep story line or a huge understanding of the 40K universe to pick up on.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of the Eldar!
I think it is hilarious those individuals bashing everyone complaining and then comparing how Apple doesn't care about customer feed back and neither should GW.
I will site only one example; does everyone remember when the iPod was first introduced? Yes good now does everyone remember what a customer had to do when the iPod’s battery went bust? No well Apple would actually tell them to buy a new iPod.......
What did the customers do? Well one count him ONE customer made a video about it and blasted it on the internet and ipod sales dropped and Apple came running to its knees to apologize for this "slight" misstep.
Now you can buy a new battery for your iPod not a completely new iPod.
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"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all" Mario Savio
Pael wrote:I think it is hilarious those individuals bashing everyone complaining and then comparing how Apple doesn't care about customer feed back and neither should GW.
I will site only one example; does everyone remember when the iPod was first introduced? Yes good now does everyone remember what a customer had to do when the iPod’s battery went bust? No well Apple would actually tell them to buy a new iPod.......
What did the customers do? Well one count him ONE customer made a video about it and blasted it on the internet and ipod sales dropped and Apple came running to its knees to apologize for this "slight" misstep.
Now you can buy a new battery for your iPod not a completely new iPod.
It had a 90 day warranty which was not end user replaceable. I know this because when the iPod first came out I was employed by an AASP and performed warranty work on everything Apple made. They never said buy a new iPod, unless it was out of warranty and even then you didn't buy a new one. You paid a nominal fee and traded in your broken one for a refurbished one, which was a lot cheaper than buying a brand new one. While I cannot say I fully agree with everything Apple does, having to support their products for over the past decade as my job, they have very good customer service. They just don't give two craps about enterprise customers, but if you are a consumer they will replace your computer.
Never, in my 12 years in IT, have ever seen a company besides apple replace a 3 year old machine with a brand new one because it had too long of a repair history and the extended warranty was about to run out. I have seen Apple do that over a dozen times. They just did it to my buddy's Macbook which was 6 months out of warranty but had so many repairs on it (Macbook 2007, they had cosmetic issues with that model) in a 3 year span, and it was like 5 total repairs, they just swapped him out a brand new Macbook at no cost.
I am not a fan boy either, just stating facts, as I have had to support Apple products for a decade now professionally. I also do PC/Windows/Linux/Unix as well, so I have many experiences with most major computer companies from my work buying their products.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of the Eldar!
Crom wrote:Heck they could even start out just doing a Space Hulk movie, that would be a good introduction that doesn't need a deep story line or a huge understanding of the 40K universe to pick up on.
Crom wrote:Heck they could even start out just doing a Space Hulk movie, that would be a good introduction that doesn't need a deep story line or a huge understanding of the 40K universe to pick up on.
Crom wrote:Heck they could even start out just doing a Space Hulk movie, that would be a good introduction that doesn't need a deep story line or a huge understanding of the 40K universe to pick up on.
They already did. It's called "Aliens".
Badoom, tish!
Seriously though, you are right.
Actually someone did an awesome Space Hulk movie. It's on You Tube.
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Crom wrote:Never, in my 12 years in IT, have ever seen a company besides apple replace a 3 year old machine with a brand new one because it had too long of a repair history and the extended warranty was about to run out.
Haven't seen that, specifically, but I did once see Nintendo replace a 10-year-old original Gameboy under warranty after the customer cracked the screen by accidentally driving over it with her car...
Oh, it was undoubtedly cheesy, but, well... it's 40K. Not just 40K, but a 40K movie done with miniatures and a hand held camera and no budget.
I haven't seen the comments but I imagine somewhere there's someone who's authentically upset that the Heavy Flamer didn't shoot fire and the Terminator referred to the Sergeant as "Sir" instead of "Brother-Sergeant".
Well think about it. They do a Horus Hersey animated series. Episode one starts in the middle of the civil war in a battle, with one of the primarchs and a chaos defector. Then it starts to tell the story of the Emperor and the Primarchs in flash backs as the series progresses. Giving you the full background. In between flash backs you can have specific stories for all 20 of the original Primarchs. Then you can see the birth of the Space Marine all the way to the death of them and how they slaughtered each other in civil war. You can see how outside forces influenced the Horus Heresy. Eldar, Dark Eldar, Squats (hahahaha for humor), Orks, and so forth .
I admit I am not familiar with the story past what GW has published. I never read any of the third party books. I want to read them some day, but I got a lot to read on my plate as far as fiction goes at the moment. I just think it would make a really awesome animated series. Plus it would be the golden age of technology.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of the Eldar!
Crom wrote:Heck they could even start out just doing a Space Hulk movie, that would be a good introduction that doesn't need a deep story line or a huge understanding of the 40K universe to pick up on.
They already did. It's called "Aliens".
Badoom, tish!
Seriously though, you are right.
Actually someone did an awesome Space Hulk movie. It's on You Tube.
Yea...they glued that Sarcophogas upside down, gahahaha.
Crom wrote:Heck they could even start out just doing a Space Hulk movie, that would be a good introduction that doesn't need a deep story line or a huge understanding of the 40K universe to pick up on.
They already did. It's called "Aliens".
Starship Troopers...
IG v Nids...
Nuff sed
MikZor wrote:
We can't help that american D&D is pretty much daily life for us (Aussies)
Walking to shops, "i'll take a short cut through this bush", random encounter! Lizard with no legs.....
I kid Since i avoid bushlands that is But we're not that bad... are we?
Crom wrote:Heck they could even start out just doing a Space Hulk movie, that would be a good introduction that doesn't need a deep story line or a huge understanding of the 40K universe to pick up on.
They already did. It's called "Aliens".
Starship Troopers...
IG v Nids...
Nuff sed
Yes but Alien and Starship Troopers (which is an actual book) lacked the lore and mythos of the 40K world. No space Orks, Eldar, Chaos, Emperor, and so forth.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of the Eldar!
2250pts. Waaagghhh! in full flow... W-D-L=10-3-3
1500pts. W-D-L=7-1-2 Nom.
W-D-L 26-6-3
All is forgiven if repaid in Traitor's blood.
