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Ouze wrote: This is like that part in Transformers: The Movie, where the Decepticons crack open the Ark and then start pouring in, massacring all the Autobots. Except in this analogy, Lego is Megatron, Facebook is the Ark, Dreamforge Games is... Starscream, and Jervis is Ratchet, ... maybe Ironhide? Look, the point is, LET THE SLAUGHTER BEGIN!
This probably happened due to Games Workshop posting the most condescending 'We'll defend our TMs/IP however we like' rant on their Facebook. This was followed by an absolutely gakstorm of responses not just from fans but from everyone who could see the page as it got shared and shared and shared.
Next day it's gone. The whole thing.
So, in short, they did in fact ragequit the internet.
I dont have a local GW. How shall I interact with this company I give thousands of dollars a year two?
Will the official website go down soon, leaving only catalogues at the retail stores for product ordering?
Serious question: Why do you need to "interact" with them? I still buy some GW stuff (from overseas retailers). I still intend to play their games and paint their models when I have time (though not to the exclusion of all others). I used to have a close store - but I didn't buy anything but paint or WD from them anyway because of the local prices. Manager and some of the staff (before they were canned) were nice guys. But really, they moved their store and I moved house. I don't need constant interaction with a game company to play their games. I've never hung out on the WOTC forums.
The official website does the job of being a model catalogue. I don't need to chat with their webmaster.
legoburner wrote: Removing it weakens the hobby for everyone and simply pushes people to places like Dakka where they can learn about other games. Welcome one and all!
This is like that part in Transformers: The Movie, where the Decepticons crack open the Ark and then start pouring in, massacring all the Autobots. Except in this analogy, Lego is Megatron, Facebook is the Ark, Dreamforge Games is... Starscream, and Jervis is Ratchet, ... maybe Ironhide? Look, the point is, LET THE SLAUGHTER BEGIN!
What is extra hilarious is that my entire internal network is named after transformers and megatron is my desktop machine (file server is cybertron, old file server is ark, backup server is metroplex, laptop is ravage, firewall is inferno).
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legoburner wrote: What is extra hilarious is that my entire internal network is named after transformers and megatron is my desktop machine (file server is cybertron, old file server is ark, backup server is metroplex, laptop is ravage, firewall is inferno).
I want to do that but there's a server I interact with at work named megatron... I could make it work but I'm sooooo lazy.
On Topic: This is hilariously depressing. I keep thinking "One day, maybe soon, they'll figure out what the Internet is."
And then crap like this happens.
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I'm honestly surprised - with all the internet raeg why haven't some 4chan geeks or the like not hacked GW by now and leaked all the new releases. It seems like the ultimate fingers to GW and their ludditism
I haven't interacted with GW since the days of the Community Forums, when you could only post glowing appreciation or you would have the thread locked. Why start again now?
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
cincydooley wrote: Were there really that many of you "interacting" with GW via Facebook anyway? Come on now.
Of course not. The main GW Facebook page was inevitably filled with the kind of hate filled vitriol you see whenever people get relative anonymity via the Internet and instances where they can be "outraged" along with the crowd.
Shifting it all to the local store pages is kind of a brilliant move, I think. It ensures that there's still an avenue for the "sneak peeks" put out weeks late, there's still an avenue for the generic GW advertisements that we used to see on the main GW Facebook page...but there's an added bonus. With the shift to the local store pages, it could hopefully mean that people stop posting the kind of garbage you would see on every posting ("Oh look! I can take out a FineLoan for FineCast!", followed by people 'Liking' that post and the postings from people who had their posts deleted for linking to Mantic/Infinity/whatever outside game on the main GW page) as people realize that they're no longer just a face in the crowd but the locals can put a face to the name.
Edit Note:
I do actually interact with GW via Facebook. The shop near me posts all their schedules on there, takes reservations for tables on there, and does most of the "upkeep" work via Facebook. The manager at the shop has to keep it up to date, and I'm more than willing to take advantage of that.
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"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
Yes, but in a brilliant stroke, they removed it, thus showing the social media savvy lacked by know-nothing companies like Nike, Starbucks, McDonalds, Subway, Intel, Walmart, Walt Disney, American Express, Verizon Wireless, Southwest Airlines, Apple, Reebok, the NBA\NHL\NFL, Target, et al...
brillllliiiaannntt.
As much as I understand this is an appeal to authority, the fact that nearly every company on the Fortune 500 list has some sort of Facebook presence must mean they see at least some value from doing so.
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lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
BryllCream wrote: If you shove a bag of flaming gak through someone's letter box every single day, you can't complain about them removing the letter box.
Unless you're the internet .
Are those really the only 2 choices?
Interact with the community in such a hostile way that your page is full of negative comments all the time, or pull the page entirely - nothing else in the middle?
To put it differently, why doesn't Forgeworld have this problem, if the issue is with "the internet"?
lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
BryllCream wrote: If you shove a bag of flaming gak through someone's letter box every single day, you can't complain about them removing the letter box.
Unless you're the internet .
Yes, because all of it was undeserved...
White knights gonna white knight.
Games Workshop Delenda Est.
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If you break apart my or anyone else's posts line by line I will not read them.
Kanluwen wrote: Thank you for your insightful and useful commentary, as ever, HBMC.
Give me a break Kan. You seemingly celebrate everything they do. I thought you'd mellowed and ditched the gleaming white armour, but it seems I spoke to soon in that regard. We know full well that if they'd done the exact opposite of this you'd be saying "Shifting all the vitriol away from the store sites and onto the main one is a really smart move".
CIsaac wrote: This probably happened due to Games Workshop posting the most condescending 'We'll defend our TMs/IP however we like' rant on their Facebook. This was followed by an absolutely gakstorm of responses not just from fans but from everyone who could see the page as it got shared and shared and shared.
Next day it's gone. The whole thing.
So, in short, they did in fact ragequit the internet.
Yeah I'm pretty sure this was the case. The amount of gak they got was mind-boggling.
cincydooley wrote: Were there really that many of you "interacting" with GW via Facebook anyway? Come on now.
Of course not. The main GW Facebook page was inevitably filled with the kind of hate filled vitriol you see whenever people get relative anonymity via the Internet and instances where they can be "outraged" along with the crowd.
Sorry Kan, but the thousand or so comments about the "space marine v. Space Marine" issue was not about climbing on a bandwagon and raging against GW for rage's sake or being random and anonymous internet tough guys. It was about publicly shaming a company who had blindly overstepped its legal boundaries by claiming that it originated and owned a common sci-fi trope which affected not only the little-known writer of the material, but also flew in the face of 80 years of previously released literature and could have endangered even contemporary popular writers. Bad press for GW, great press for Ms. Hogarth. GW created not space marines but a spirit of sympathy for the little-guy and distaste for themselves.
Armies: Space Marines, IG, Tyranids, Eldar, Necrons, Orks, Dark Eldar.
I am the best 40k player in my town, I always win! Of course, I am the only player of 40k in my town.
"I hope you all get cancer" are totally about publicly shaming a company.
Edit note:
This is not me saying "GW totally should have brought down their Facebook page! Suck it haters!", or saying that the above comment is representative of every single comment.
However it is important to recognize that most comments are not helpful or even remotely thought out.
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Scott Edwards wrote:Many thanks for your email. The Games Workshop Facebook page has been removed so that the customer interaction goes through our retail stores. This will be via face to face contact with customers while they are visiting the stores, or by using the individual Facebook pages each store has.
Ouze wrote: Hah, they ragequit the internet. Again.
GW reminds me of Cartman from South Park. He's a bitchy little bully who lords over anyone weaker than him but runs away crying like a baby whenever anyone actually stands up to him.
Alkasyn wrote: I don't know whether this is funny or sad.
That's the beauty of schadenfreude, sad = funny. In fact, here's a little song about it...
pretre wrote: Wait, so because of a legal row with some author, they took down their FB page... Kinda reaching isn't it? Was there some huge FB backlash or something to indicate causation?
NoseGoblin wrote: Color me confused.... Tossing away free advertising and social networking just does not make sense.
Time for you to step up and fill in the vacuum, eh? Who's that knocking at mah door? Opportunity? Opportunity who?
Come on over and like my page, I promise I will not be QQ'ing my Facebook site
legoburner wrote: In short, the GW facebook page was probably the fifth largest wargaming 'website' on the web (after the official GW page, dakka, BoLS and warseer). Removing it weakens the h-h-hobby for everyone and simply pushes people to places like Dakka where they can learn about other games. Welcome one and all!
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