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 Netsurfer733 wrote:
I was not aware of that in regards to the Forgeworld site's greater demons...is that new, that they aren't available? I've eyed them for a super long time too....

It's not that they aren't sold, its that they are no longer listed for sale under 40K and AoS. They are under the "ruinstorm" model list in the Horus Heresy. Basically either there's a bit of subnose going on at GW and the FW greater demons are being pushed out of view a bit so that people buy the GW plastic ones; or whoever updated the listings and added them to the Ruinstorm managed to delete the old tags and no one has gone in to fix it.

Either way they are still up for sale, just not as visible as they once were to new prospective buyers.

If people aren’t buying stuff gets discontinued.

There’s no conspiracy. I get that it’s sad but some models have been available for years and years.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
If people aren’t buying stuff gets discontinued.

I think a valid part of the argument when it comes to FW is that many of the products they make are not advertised as heavily as GW core products are. So you can say that if people don't buy the products should be discontinued, but if the company itself isn't making the customers aware that the products exist in the first place then, well, honestly that's on the company!

GW could already make FW infinitely more popular just by printing the rules in the core Battletomes/Codex (apparently many of the rules for FW models are now being done by the core rules teams for GW). Putting the models up into more articles on their community sites and mention in the White Dwarf would also help tremendously.


I guess there's a bit of an issue with scale; if GW were to push FW as hard as they push their regular models then FW might well need investment to scale up its production to meet a higher level of demand than they currently get. But I get the general feeling that FW is a ship without a captain at the helm and that its being somewhat pulled apart through internal politics* of GW. This isn't helped by complicating the matter with the specialist games which are doing really really well and thus eating up more FW time.


*you can see this in how FW has apparently got lumped with some very beginner or dubious style painters for their models. Everyone has to start somewhere, but when your advertising your models and you've got the "Evy Metal Team" as your paid employees then it seems odd that your luxury resin model line gets the bottom end of the painting quality now and then.