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There was an old reddit article. Supposebly by a former GW employe. They talked about the problems with pricing D weapons. They wanted to price the wraightknight, who came with D wepaons. But hier ups said they would never sell eldars if it was priced to high, and they intensionally priced them lover.

Do anybody remember where it is? Or the article in general?

That was AMA on Reddit. The problem is, clueless people latched onto Chinese whispers mangled offhand quote and started making dumb conspiracy theories about GW buffing new models to sell them (when simple observation of say the whole new primaris or necron range will tell you how stupid this take is). When you actually read what was written, it's obvious the sales person telling the game writer to keep badly written, OP Eldar rules he did as beta version is NOT standard procedure and in fact the writer was both shocked to hear it and it was first time he had such interaction. Maybe he was lying, I don't know, but I bet he wishes he didn't open that Pandora box now...

Was it this one, from James M Hewitt's AMA?

beast_gts wrote:
Was it this one, from James M Hewitt's AMA?

Unless there's another similar article its the one that's been thrown up down the years.

Thank you.

I found the quote I was looking for.



The reason I am was asking was in regard to the Tau railgun, and to a lesser extent the pulse blastcannon.

I quit during 6th edtion, with a bad taste in my mouth. But on 8th edtion I just got the impression that GW was atemtig to make a better game, that actually wroked as a game. Friends of mine where playing and I jumped back on the wagon. Every dession after that I feel has made the game better. Rule of three, 50% deployed on the table. Point balancing etc. I stand with GW on those point.

But the railgun just reminds me of the D cannon weapon. I will say that the sky is not falling, yet... I need more context. I heard leaks that the hammerhead woulf cost 145 points. For an army with exspensive elite models, like a crusher stampede tyranid, knights, chaos knights or much of the deathguard codex it just feels bad. It might be these tau weapons will be cept in check my transhuman fysiolagy, as that is a big counter. I am just hoping the sky is not faling.

 Irbis wrote:
That was AMA on Reddit. The problem is, clueless people latched onto Chinese whispers mangled offhand quote and started making dumb conspiracy theories about GW buffing new models to sell them (when simple observation of say the whole new primaris or necron range will tell you how stupid this take is). When you actually read what was written, it's obvious the sales person telling the game writer to keep badly written, OP Eldar rules he did as beta version is NOT standard procedure and in fact the writer was both shocked to hear it and it was first time he had such interaction. Maybe he was lying, I don't know, but I bet he wishes he didn't open that Pandora box now...

It just shows GW gives only half a gak about balance. D3+3 Damage dark lance was not tested by all playtesters, it was implemented after some, maybe all pts balancing was done. It's not a conspiracy, just ineptitude.