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I'd destroy the internet with lazers..

Take that, you haters.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Finally, if I'm feeling particularly self-absorbed, I might "accidentally" kill the entire Tyranid product line.

I would break you....

Seriously, why would you destroy my only army? Tyranids are fun.

Yep, Techboss has it. Sell it to Wizards of the Coast.

- Impose a rule allowing me to run GW for more than a day.

- Hire people who can actually write. Seriously, the books are horrible written. So many typos >.<

- Give game / movie licenses to companies who will do a good job for once. Space Hulk was horrible.

- Speaking of Space Hulk, no more limited edition board games.

- Restore Specialist games, and try to merge them with the hobby. Or at least have someone else to them.

- Drop the fanatical IP protection. It's getting ridiculous

- Encourage critical thinking (basically the opposite of what Kirby is doing)

- Replace the 1 click "deals" with actual deals

- Stop the whole "family friendly" crap. It's a game set in a dystopian future where horrible things happen to people on a regular basis. 10 year olds shouldn't be playing it; they are just going to drag the game down and sanitize it.

- More Female models

- No more 10 year waits for army updates. The fact that sisters are still stuck with metal models is embarrassing. Yes, the hair is a pain to get down with plastic. That's why you change to something easier to mold. People will bitch, but it will give the technicians time to come up with a better solution (whilst at the same time earning money)

I'd hire Victoria Lamb as a sculptor and bribe all the PP rule designers to work for us.

I would give myself all models I want for free :3

I can't believe I forgot making Kirby's skull into a drinks cup.

Put a stop to the bundling practices that make it hard to buy only what you want. If I want three squads of Dire Avengers each with an exarch, then don't make me end up with three spare exarchs.

Instantly charge the Devs to spend 3 days cleaning up the questions the gamers raise on multiple forums and place them into FAQ so the game can proceed without stupidity.

I would also have them spend 2 days cleaning up the rules via Errata for the same effect.

I would then fire Matt Ward and whoever at FW wrote IA: 12 (Bligh?)for being mentally gimped fan boys and institute a group of fans of multiple army fluff to forever approve future fluff to not be so dumb.

After that, put in an order with the painting gurus to do up a 20,000 point Yme-Loc Eldar army for a future lottery winner, who would already determined to be me. :-P

Promote Matt Ward to head of the fluff department.

Well that and sit down with the Dev team and go over how they do game design and bring in the outside perspective so maybe they get what the community has been asking for a little more.

Drive up to the HQ with a UHaul truck and take home a lot of sprues.

A LOT of sprues!

Pull an Enron
and hire a panel who's goal is to recover the lost faith in the company by the gaming community and make the product more visible to non gamers. That may mean small price breaks or sales, supporting gaming tournaments or changes in retail strategy. I think gw has a hold on the market, they just need to get some people in charge who want to earn back the respect of the community.

-I'd have a contract draw up for me to write Codex:Squats (I'm at least as qualified as most of the current studio staff) and commision an appropriate model line based on the un-released 2nd edition Squats. That would fix that nagging 15+ year old problem once and for all.

-I'd ban the use of the term "Games Workshop Hobby"

-I'd cut the budget to the point in which we could afford to bring our pricing back in line with the industry standard for 28mm plastic miniatures. (see Perry, Warlord, Vitrix etc for examples of what GW models should actually cost)

-At the end of the day, I'd sell the company back to Bryan Ansell.

TR

Decided to post my own! I would hire myself for as long as I need. Then (seeing as how dawn of war got more people playing than most anything I've heard about) get started on a new multi-platform warhammer RTS, advertise through that. Hopefully all the new players would allow enough profits GW could afford to lower prices while maintaining the current budget.

I actually changed my mind. Id just take as many FW and Citadel IG tank kits home as I can with me. Make my very own tank regiment.

1. I'd order that plastic Sisters of Battle be marked for #1 priority. (And plastic steel legion)
2. I'd have them write a real chaos codex that doesn't suck and have rules for each legion. You know, kinda like how loyalists have and Chaos players have been demanding for years.
3. Make it a private company and fire everyone without a soul.
4. Fire Matt Ward and hire real authors to do the fluff.
5. Hire people that can make a better set of rules.
6. Advance the fluff so that its not the same year after year. Have the Tyranids fight Necrons while Tau expand. (or something!)

I agree with most people. One day isn't going to be enough to make any long term meaningful changes. I also won't mention the "hire myself for longer" As that's kinda like wishing for more wishes.....

That being said.

I'd help myself to a few models.

I'd have them respond to some of the FAQs and Errata questions, (( including making some changes to Dark Angels to make them more competitive))

and give my thoughts on whats being developed.

 Capamaru wrote:

 conker249 wrote:
I would drive that Rhino they have home and keep it. That is if it even is able to. If not then I'll tow it home.

How on earth I forgot about the rhino! Don't just drive it home fill it with minis first!

First of all - I love this answer!

Secondly - The Independent Characters - Episode 40

If I ran it for a day, I would return the Squats to the 40K universe. Lot of players whoi would be very happy with me for doing it.

Disrupt itself.

Not enough time to make a major change and nothing really permanent would occur. Even hiring new individuals would take more time whilst firing old ones. So then....

Step one, grab as many 40k models as possible, step 2, the life sized rhino is now mine to scream metawl bawkses, step 3, load the metawl bawks with as many units as possible, step 4, get the promise that one of the pro painters will paint the models for me, step 5, drive away with it all and retreat to a hidden base. Step 6, unload all models. Step 7, the god of fate determines randomness. On heads, the vehicle will be driven into a lake to be discovered and in reality bringing forth a army of cultists that will worship the god emporer and chaos gods further alienating individuals from 40k fans and thus destroying the hobby or keep it hidden and forge a true rhino as my personal mobile.

- Empty the contents of the closest storage warehouse into the back of a truck and drive off with it.

- Hire new rules/FAQ writers. Have their desks placed surrounding a cage, in which the previous writers are forced to separate and count the bucketloads of Imperial Guard heads (Catachan and Cadian) and both CSM and SM bolters that I throw in. Miscounting or incorrect classification requires that they start again, with Tyranid parts added.

I'd open up myself to reading all constructive criticism from the internet. After four hours I would stop all criticism and cry until they take job back off me, shake their hands and wish them luck.

Actually, I'd try and make White dwarf a worthwhile/profitable magazine. That would be easy:
- Articles about armies rather than "look at the new models! They are the best! Buy them! Not the old ones, put those down."
- Perhaps an article about tactics
- Batreps where people explain why they picked those units rather than "This is new (and super awesome). I want to see how it works". I'd also put the detail back in there that used to exist.
- Free minature sprues to coincide with new releases
- No more 20 pages of "Here is where your local store is". It's the 21st century!!! Everyone can find out where their local store is on the internet.
- Adverts for goings on in FLGS like campaigns, sales, etc (not too many)
- Scenarios
- Keep the articles where people show off their armies.
- Talk about local liscenced tournaments that White Dwarf are running (Yes, I'm proposing running tournaments)

I had a rather long talk with my SO about this, but given a day I would:

Remove the company from a Stock Options company to a Privately Held company.
Why?
No Stock Holders means no board to please, means the company can be run without major profits (after wages, research, development and stuff).
It also means risks can be taken when wanting to try something awesome.

I would plan a better release schedule:
New Rulebook every 3-4 years.
Codexes spread out at regular release intervals between new rulebooks.
BUT! Every time a new rulebook came out, and a codex hadn't been updated, it would get an
smaller overhaul to actually function within new rules. Think the FAQ's, but working.

Create a community contact department:
This department would handle critique from users, follow forums and such.

Full Transparency:
I would release every piece of information I could about the finances and why we make decisions as we would.

Okay. One day, so many tasks:

1) Find the guy who denied blizzard the opportunity to make a WH game back in the 90s.

2) Make him write a letter of apology to blizzard and how they may do so anytime they want now

3) Have a public whipping of said guy (maybe delegate, since lots of stuff on the to do list remains)

4) Hire some students who spellcheck all the new Codices (and fix the released ones)

5) Get meself some good ol tea made

6) Install an open informations policy with a daily updated blog with news on thigs WIP, things to come, community votes and suchlike

7) Transfer the staff from White Dwarf to #6

8) Find the guy responsible for the lack of Flash Gitz models and repeat #3

9) Get the brighter heads of the company to an emergency meeting, discuss the coming necessary policy changes with regards towards 3D printing

10) Get another cup of tea

11) Designate a custodian of lore (probably the biggest, fattest geek I can find) who'll have an eye on the lore and ensures that there are no unnecessary retcons, errors, confusing statemens and crossing of the beams in general.

12) Reduce the production of low-impact supplements (black legion, i'm looking at you!) in favour of bigger semi-codices which really mess with the FOC of the target army instead of 2-3 small alterations.

13) have a spin in the rhino

14) more tea

15) kick each and any supplement, expansion, dataslate or really any work on space marines out of the priority list for the next 9 months (at least)

Release a BT codex with Sword Brethren riding robotic horses that shoot flamer templates, release a codex Ecclesiarchy for Sisters with new plastics, steal their lifesized Rhino, stuff it with merchandise (hitching one of those lifesized Spehss mehreens to the top while I'm at it) and zog off.

How did I not know about the life size rhino! :O

I'd stop making Warhammer players subsidize an unpopular hobby. I'd immediately discontinue the Hobbit line and reduce the cost of everything else as much as is feasible so that my bread-and-butter games don't go extinct when Generation X does.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
I'd destroy the internet with lazers..

Take that, you haters.

Nah mate. Bribe the US government into retrying SOPA

Eax wrote:
I had a rather long talk with my SO about this, but given a day I would:

Remove the company from a Stock Options company to a Privately Held company.
Why?
No Stock Holders means no board to please, means the company can be run without major profits (after wages, research, development and stuff).
It also means risks can be taken when wanting to try something awesome.

You realize that to do this you would have to do a stock buy-back plan? So you would basically have to buy up all of the stock that is out there to turn the company private again.

A company typically goes private when its stakeholders decide that there are no longer significant benefits to be garnered as a public company. Privatization will usually arise either when a company's management wants to buy out the public shareholders and take the company private (a management buyout), or when a company or individual makes a tender offer to buy most or all of the company's stock. Going private transactions generally involve a significant amount of debt.

Companies are often taken private when they need time to restructure their debt or operations prior to becoming a public corporation once again.

How would you achieve this? Just curious where all this money would come from to buy it all out...?