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Okay. I raised this a few years ago and wondering what the general consensus is nowadays?

While I think it's great that armies get updated with new bits and pieces, I can't help but wonder if GW is missing a trick and have opted for playing it safe, i.e. making what they know will sell.
Again as I said above, It's great models are updated but now and then I get a hankering for a new army on the block?

Last time they did it was the Tau,and as far as I can tell they have been very popular. So should they instead be introducing new armies from the lore,say, once a year? They hint at all these other races in the books but I doubt if they will actually do anything about it. Hrud,anyone?

They kind of took a risk with the Tau release,and it could have bombed but it didn't!
They certainly have the sculpting skills and sometimes the rules!(Hah!) to go with the minis.

So, I ask you,why not?

Thoughts?

'Cause there are still armies with twenty-year-old models and barely-functional Codexes built on a core game badly in need of editing. Stacking more bloat on top of an already cluttered game would cause more problems than it fixed, and putting out new ranges of models is going to alienate large portions of the fanbase that are stuck with '90s models badly recast in resin or early '00s models packed on sparse, warped frames with no posability or customizability.

So in short: Fix what you've got before trying to expand it.

And once you introduce an army it's rather tough to get rid of it. An army is 10-30 product codes which means a lot of molds and work/boxes, art, a codex etc. That expands an already too-big line of products. That's also a big risk for a company to take on.

That being said they're now introducing way too many "small" armies (my opinion obviously). Grey Knights, Knight Households, Deathwatch etc. As mentioned above they also have a lot of lines which are seriously lacking in actual models. It'd be a bit of a slap in the face to some army collectors to see another army introduced while they're stuck with models from the early 1990's.