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After reading through a few threads, I have found that some people have odd ideas as to why we like 40k.
I remember when as a teenager, picking up White Dwarf for the D&D articles and coming across the cool GW models. Since the models looked cool and I had the magazine anyway, I went ahead and started reading the GW articles as well. The models combined with the background storyline and lets not forget the artwork, led me to like 40k.
I'm sure that there are many many stories like mine in this regard with different variations. Since someone here is adamant that this is not the case and that each and every person who has ever liked 40k in the entire world to date, contacted GW and made their decision to like 40k based on graphs of profits, I thought a poll would be in order to see if that was indeed the case. lol

 EVIL INC wrote:
Since someone here is adamant that this is not the case and that each and every person who has ever liked 40k in the entire world to date, contacted GW and made their decision to like 40k based on graphs of profits...

Nobody has made this claim.

They have in another thread, however, discussion of that is off topic. THIS thread is to find out why people like 40k. Feel free to vote on the poll.

Why is there no option for "I don't like 40K?"

A combination of factors. Awesome models, badass lore, a fun game, and some sick artwork. It hits all the bases for me. Video games don't do it anymore, and P&P roleplaying has kinda fallen off my radar as well, but 40k keeps me coming back for more. I may be more interested in one aspect over the others at any given time, but I think that's probably how most others are too. Modeling is my #1 for a bit, playing at other times, and just reading novels/short stories other times yet. But all these reasons keep me into 40k one way or another

 EVIL INC wrote:
They have in another thread,

No, they haven't. You have completely misinterpreted a completely different statement.

... however, discussion of that is off topic.

Here's a tip: Don't blatantly misrepresent things other people have said in your opening post, and people might be less likely to call you on it.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Why is there no option for "I don't like 40K?"

Different thread?

The fluff drew me in after I played Space Marine, but I think it is primarily the quality of the models that keeps me with the game. I got some Hordes and Heroclix but those just didn't capture my imagination like the 40k armies.

There is no option for other or non of da above

 EVIL INC wrote:
They have in another thread, however, discussion of that is off topic. THIS thread is to find out why people like 40k. Feel free to vote on the poll.

Something that is not only in the original post of a thread, but also heavily implied is the inspiration behind the thread is off topic in that thread? Uh, ok...

But if some one wrote that in another thread, why don't you go ahead and post a link to it? You can't, can you? Because no one actually wrote that, and you've just shoe-horned a logical fallacy into what would otherwise be a fair enough poll. I'm not really sure why, but I'm assuming it's some sort of weird ego thing.


Anyway, I voted for a combination, as I appreciate the models, the fluff, and the game, but I'd add that the tournament community is also a big part of why I'm still into 40k.

 EVIL INC wrote:
Since someone here is adamant that this is not the case and that each and every person who has ever liked 40k in the entire world to date, contacted GW and made their decision to like 40k based on graphs of profits

I seriously doubt that ever happened. Like. Ever.

Also, the poll is slightly flawed. You should have just left the option to select multiple options, otherwise there's going to be a huge bias to "a combination".

LOL @ the Poll Troll.


I like most of the fluff, most of the models, the overall aesthetic of the setting.

What's turned me off of 40k has been the changes to the game itself: Flyers( for their rules and cumbersome models), the other giant models (riptides, wraithknights, exocrines et al), allies, dataslates, and formations. 40k was complicated and messy enough when we had just 16 codices to worry about. We always knew that the game was there to sell models and that the needs of the game were subordinate to the business requirement of having periodic releases and updates to maintain revenue. Now they've completely given up on trying to maintain a balanced, coherent game. Instead they've opened the floodgates in order to move as much product as possible. It's not working.

I only like 40k because it allows me to tranfer my hard-earned cash to rich British people I'll never meet.

Hey, pay for a ticket and I'll fly out and meet you, then you can give me all your money!

'I was young and stupid and didn't know any better' isn't an option.

Seriously though, 'forge world' should be an option. It's pulp, but I enjoy the imperial armour and Horus heresy books, even though a lot of the rest of the fluff, especially the most recent stuff, is silly.

so, to answer your post, a subset of fluff for me?

 EVIL INC wrote:
. Since someone here is adamant that this is not the case and that each and every person who has ever liked 40k in the entire world to date, contacted GW and made their decision to like 40k based on graphs of profits, I thought a poll would be in order to see if that was indeed the case. lol

No, not really evil. You're Not even close to being accurate. Nice strawman though.

The models, the fluff, the rules in roughly that order. Basically, everything but the price!

For me it it was a combination of models, fluff, atmosphere and artwork. I remember when I was a teen I'd see the models in a local hobby shop, had a couple of friends who played but it was something I never seriously considered till I got a firm introduction to the setting via Dawn of War and was well into my professional life with the disposable income to get into another hobby.

Even then, I've been doing this for about a year, still yet to even play a game on the table top. I just have too much fun learning about the lore and putting together and painting the models. To be honest I'd be quite happy if I never actually played a game and just collected models and books.

Cool fluff, minis and artwork got me interested in 40K - and WHFB for that matter and Necromunda and Gorkamorka and BFG and trolls in the pantry AND Bloodbowl AND Spacefleet AND Space Crusade AND Space Hulk AND......

Don't play 40k at the moment but still have a soft spot for it.

What an awful poll.

Not that I'm surprised.

 EVIL INC wrote:
They have in another thread, however, discussion of that is off topic. THIS thread is to find out why people like 40k. Feel free to vote on the poll.

You're making stuff up now.
If you refuse to listen, you'll never understand why people dislike GW. Remain in happy ignorance.
I didn't bother voting because the poll was created to make a point, not to learn and it is a stupid point.

 EVIL INC wrote:
They have in another thread, however, discussion of that is off topic. THIS thread is to find out why people like 40k. Feel free to vote on the poll.

No, nobody made that claim, you're the only one that ever imagined any such thing was said, and this smacks of a lame attempt to prove a counter-argument to a point nobody tried to make but you *really* wanted to imagine was there.

But sure, I'll vote in the poll.

Well, to be honest, among lots of other things, I actually do like the game. It is fun and I keep coming back to it again and again, even as other allegedly "better" miniature games grow stale and boring.

Is it perfect? No. But it's better at providing me with an entertaining Sunday afternoon than most hyped-up FOTM "in-crowd"-games I've tried.

I like 40K for a combination of reasons, the models are good, the story is cool, there's loads of amazing art. The rules suck though and need a good fixing.

The fair and balanced gameplay.

*Tries to keep straight face*

Obviously most people voting are going to say 'a combination'. But your poll is useless, it's not leading on to a nice discussion of everyone's reasons, it's leading on to people calling you out on your completely ridiculous claim which you have no evidence for and have even had a MOD call you out on your squigfilth.
So therefore I am voting the bottom option, to feed your ignorance and stupidity, and because it is the one true reason why anyone joins 40k.

Its like Eve Online right?

We're all in this because of a fascination with charts and graphs about money and investments.

Models and fluff mean nothing in the face of owning a piece of such corporate grandiosity.

Sometimes stories and details conflict. Sometimes things are infuriating, like the two missing primarchs that I just want to know about. YES I KNOW they might have done that so we could create our own. BUT I didn't get into 40k to write my own complete story. I came to read theirs. I only write mine with battles on the table top.

But pound for pound, I LOVE THE FLUFF!!! Nothing comes close to as awesome as 40k grimdark fluff (Disclaimer: For me, anyways).

Dont care if another game is cheaper or easier to play. I love the 40k universe,

 Pyeatt wrote:
Sometimes stories and details conflict. Sometimes things are infuriating, like the two missing primarchs that I just want to know about. YES I KNOW they might have done that so we could create our own. BUT I didn't get into 40k to write my own complete story. I came to read theirs. I only write mine with battles on the table top.

But pound for pound, I LOVE THE FLUFF!!! Nothing comes close to as awesome as 40k grimdark fluff (Disclaimer: For me, anyways).

Dont care if another game is cheaper or easier to play. I love the 40k universe,

Yeah dude, the 40k universe is endless amounts of awesome. So much potential for story telling and imagination, it's just beautiful *looks up to stars* *tears up*

Some of the models look great, some of the fluff is fun, but the game itself is an unpolished turd. Moved on to better games balanced games, that actually care about what there players want.

I'm just going to make a wild accusations and then forbid people from talking about it and not provide any links or evidence.
Totally legit.
I DARE Evil Inc to provide any evidence that anybody ever said that.

About the poll: I would say the fluff, but since the fluff hasn't changed in a couple decades, I choose "none of the above".

Were it not for the fact that these graphs point upwards and GW make money I'm not sure I'd be into the hobby.
The ramifications of them making money is that a successful company exists, is accessible, progressive, polished, and professional.
So yeah it's probably a contributing factor.
I clicked combination of above but yeah the poll is pretty flawed.