Games Workshop Facebook page missing

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**sarduka42**

Discussion continued from the following link: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/506974.page

Appears that Games Workshop's main Facebook page has gone missing (with all it's posts) after the recent Website maintenance.

**Ouze**

Hah, they ragequit the internet.

Again.

**SickSix**

It hasn't gone missing. It's been put in the circular filing cabinet.

They were getting a LOT of heat, especially after the news of their latest legal bullying over Spots the Space Mar.......(hit by poison dart from the shadows)

**blood reaper**

Ouze wrote:
Hah, they ragequit the internet.

Again.

"It's just a fad. Their just a bunch of nerds in their moms basements, 'internet'. Good old 'newspaper never did any 'arm."

**Medium of Death**

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21380003

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21409490

I didn't realise that this was serious enough as to attract the attention of the beeb.

I really don't mind that the FB page is gone, hopefully they'll take the like and tweet buttons off of the site soon enough

**Alkasyn**

I don't know whether this is funny or sad.

**pretre**

Medium of Death wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21380003

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21409490

I didn't realise that this was serious enough as to attract the attention of the beeb.

I really don't mind that the FB page is gone, hopefully they'll take the like and tweet buttons off of the site soon enough

Not sure what those have to do with the FB page being removed. FYI, here's a response from GW CS:

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.

The individual stores Facebook pages can be found here;

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=17500005a

We hope this has been of help.

Kind regards, Scott Edwards

Was posted on Faeit earlier.

**agustin**

"Make the scary internet go away!"

**Kroothawk**

Facebook, newspapers and the BBC are a fad soon passing away. Like the internet.

On the positive side https://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial is now free for everyone to register

And the national and local GW facebook pages are still online, just saying folks

Oh, and the official statement is so obvious, you can't take it seriously, esp. given the convenient time of closure. One-man shop personnell shall handle international complains about GW legal's follies? Really?

**SickSix**

So what are they going to do when the community starts spamming the stores websites? Shut those down as well?

It is only a matter of time.

**squall018**

I don't even know what to say at this point... what are they doing over there?

**Pacific**

pretre wrote:
Medium of Death wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21380003

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21409490

I didn't realise that this was serious enough as to attract the attention of the beeb.

I really don't mind that the FB page is gone, hopefully they'll take the like and tweet buttons off of the site soon enough

Not sure what those have to do with the FB page being removed. FYI, here's a response from GW CS:

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.

The individual stores Facebook pages can be found here;

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=17500005a

We hope this has been of help.

Kind regards, Scott Edwards

Was posted on Faeit earlier.

Come on mate.. seriously? I mean I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but sometimes you've got to see the thing labelled 'obvious', with the great big fething red arrow and being pointed at by the giant Neon smiling Malboro man

**Valhallan42nd**

Foolish, foolish, foolish...

But why would we want to interact with the local hobby centers when the GW store staff is being actively discouraged from making the stores places to interact?

**pretre**

Pacific wrote:
Come on mate.. seriously? I mean I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but sometimes you've got to see the thing labelled 'obvious', with the great big fething red arrow and being pointed at by the giant Neon smiling Malboro man

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?

**Kroothawk**

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?

Not sure if serious. But after Guardian and BBC made it news and linked to the GW FB page, it was centre of a gak storm. See this thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/505838.page

**SickSix**

pretre wrote:
Pacific wrote:
Come on mate.. seriously? I mean I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but sometimes you've got to see the thing labelled 'obvious', with the great big fething red arrow and being pointed at by the giant Neon smiling Malboro man

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?

Are you serious? You were like the second poster in the thread Kroothawk linked to......

**Savageconvoy**

Didn't know their Facebook page was getting a lot of negative attention. Wasn't their Twitter account the one getting most of the flakk?

**pretre**

Kroothawk wrote:
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?

Not sure if serious. But after Guardian and BBC made it news and linked to the GW FB page, it was centre of a gak storm. See this thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/505838.page

Hmph. Interesting. I hadn't really followed the articles or the threads after reading the initial 'what happened'. So yes, serious.

SickSix wrote:
pretre wrote:
Pacific wrote:
Come on mate.. seriously? I mean I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but sometimes you've got to see the thing labelled 'obvious', with the great big fething red arrow and being pointed at by the giant Neon smiling Malboro man

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?

Are you serious? You were like the second poster in the thread Kroothawk linked to......

And again, serious. I didn't follow the 'gak storm' after the initial posts. I read the first articles about what happened and then the authors response. I usually get bored with those threads after the first page or so because it becomes very circular. Sorry that I didn't follow it as closely as the rest.

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Oh and facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial isn't available. :(

**NoseGoblin**

Color me confused.... Tossing away free advertising and social networking just does not make sense.

**pretre**

NoseGoblin wrote:
Color me confused.... Tossing away free advertising and social networking just does not make sense.

I don't know that GW is ever accused of making sense around here.

**Ouze**

pretre wrote:
NoseGoblin wrote:
Color me confused.... Tossing away free advertising and social networking just does not make sense.

I don't know that GW is ever accused of making sense around here.

I think in this case most rational people would agree they have chosen... poorly, by essentially stepping back in time 20 years.

**Medium of Death**

I don't know, when all you get from your fans is abuse it's easy to see why they like to step back. Don't get me wrong GW does deserve a fair amount of what gets thrown at it, but it might just be a bit too much to bother attempting to continue any meaningful interaction.

**kronk**

The Forge World Facebook page is still up, though.

They posted this little nugget, though most people here know about it:

As confirmed by Alan Bligh at Games Day, Imperial Armour Volume 12: The Fall of Orpheus will feature a Necron dynasty awakening en masse, and being opposed by Imperial forces led by the Minotaurs chapter and the Death Korps of Krieg.

**d3m01iti0n**

Wow. Bunch of babies.

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?

**NoseGoblin**

Ouze wrote:
pretre wrote:
NoseGoblin wrote:
Color me confused.... Tossing away free advertising and social networking just does not make sense.

I don't know that GW is ever accused of making sense around here.

I think in this case most rational people would agree they have chosen... poorly, by essentially stepping back in time 20 years.

The allow me to use the sudden vacuum to shamelessly promote my page https://www.facebook.com/pages/DreamForge-Games/170122359762854

Come on over and like my page, I promise I will not be QQ'ing my Facebook site

**H.B.M.C.**

kronk wrote:
The Forge World Facebook page is still up, though.

Of course it is. FW and BL act like utterly different companies to GW - offering previews, talking to fans, showing off WIP's, showing up to various trade shows and conventions.

Why would FW shut down their FB page when GW-proper runs away at the first sign of trouble?

**Kroothawk**

Ouze wrote:
Hah, they ragequit the internet.
Again.

That sums it up perfectly

**kronk**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
kronk wrote:
The Forge World Facebook page is still up, though.

Of course it is. FW and BL act like utterly different companies to GW - offering previews, talking to fans, showing off WIP's, showing up to various trade shows and conventions.

Why would FW shut down their FB page when GW-proper runs away at the first sign of trouble?

My point being, as you are stating, that not everyone over there is a loony when it comes to social media.

**legoburner**

I feel sorry for the warhammer world FB page manager who will inevitably be next in line for all of the stress and then be blamed for it!

I actually just looked at the stats for their page last night. 107K likes, most popular city London, UK, most common age range 25-34, current 'likes per week' just under 500 (or was it 600?). Currently 'talking about this' was about 4K people, but skewed because of the arguments over the Space Marine book trademark aggression.

plug time - dont forget Dakka has a facebook page too - http://www.facebook.com/officialdakka
We get about 150 new likes per week (1/4 of the rate of GW on average, but drastically more than any other wargaming community website, and we dont push the facebook 'like' button very hard either).

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 hobby for everyone and simply pushes people to places like Dakka where they can learn about other games. Welcome one and all!

**Ouze**

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!