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ok, here is a real off the wall question about something that I KNOW will never happen. This is just asking your thoughts on in in some fantasy parallel universe so look at it with a sense of humor.....

What would you think if they stopped putting out codices and supplements. if they were to start working on 7th edition and get everything ironed out before release. The release including not only all the rules but also all of the codexes complete that go with that edition. All already playtested and balanced together to avoid creep or people being out of date? Along with it, any new models that go with it.

Then, after the release of that, they do the same for fantasy.

And then alternate them that way instead of constantly stringing them along and overlapping and blah blah blah. Would I be the only one who would cheer?

I'd like it but I imagine people who like to collect every army would be upset. The codex creep is nice in that you can save up for a new army that is maybe a year from coming out whole stay playing the current edition with whatever army was updated that you play.

Then again you run the risk having codexes so overly balanced they end up being all vanilla, for insurance evey army ends up with one dedicated melee unit, one TEQ equivalent, one big tank, etc....which is something I could see GW doing.

why question something that won't happen?

Seriously, I don't see the point in the question here. If it did happen, then I think I would actually be less happy. 6th ed isn't that bad when you push aside all the little rule flaws and certain inbalances. In fact, I think it's a great edition!

Then again, I don't have to deal with Wave Serpent Spam or a Riptide blitz at my club....

G.A

Sounds like an amazing alternate universe.

Sounds similar to third edition. Nice idea, but things were so bland that I quit back then.

They wouldn't have the monthly "shiny" factor of new army book releases, and without that, they probably wouldn't do so good. If it did happen, we'd hopefully get a much more balanced game (which isn't a problem so long as you aren't playing with WAAC types) but it wouldn't be financially viable. It worked back in the 90s when the game and the competition were both much smaller, but with the stakes as high as they are, it just wouldn't happen.

I was thinking that when I typed it up. It would ruin them and likely putthem out of business for that reason (not that they aren't running themselves into the ground in other ways but that's a different story lol).
that's why I made sure to emphasize the whole, it will never happen aspect.

I would note that when I posted it, I should also have emphasized along with everything being balanced, the armies would not be the same things with different names blandness. I'm talking each with their own playstyles and units/unit types so you wouldn't nessessarily get a TEQ in every list andall that. They would truly each be individual separate and different entities that are balanced. heck, it we are making a pipedream, might as well go whole hog. lol

When you look at it from a business perspective it doesn't really make sense. You have to pay a team of writers, editors, play testers, rules experts to develop a codex. Then there's printing costs, graphic design, some marketing. Then the models have to be aligned. An artist or teams of artists are brought in to work on the concept, mock ups, reviews, re-mock ups, reviews against, test molds are made, test casts. Stock as to be built up to be shipped regionally and globally.... You spend all this money, and then you sit on your product. You paid out all that hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars (likely millions). You're paying storage fees for stock that's not being sold.... and you keep building it up, more money spend on new teams of people all working on different condexes, models, more stock buildup, more dollars spent and no dollars coming in.

There's no sense in that. You finish up the product as good as you can to make your deadline, so the new product can go out and bring in revenue to pay for the making of that product, plus some profit for the company, and you start the next one.