If you want the actual reason, here it is and it's as dumb as you think it is:
They're afraid a fully digital version of Warhammer 40k will kill the company. Why? Because, and I quote, "If you can fully play Warhammer 40k online, no one will buy the minis and play the game in real life."
Now I know what you might be thinking.
"But Bohemond, doesn't Tabletop Simulator having the whole of 40k modded in disprove this?"
Yes. It does. No one accused Games Workshop of having good ideas. 40k, the tabletop game, is incredibly niche. Mini collection is incredibly niche. More people read the books, play the video games, and do other things 40k related compared to collecting minis and playing the tabletop game. Tabletop Sim directly contributed to 40k's COVID era popularity boom. Being able to play the tabletop game online would be a huge boost to Games Workshop.
It also looks like they might be reversing course on this. Letting games like Battlesector and Total War 40k get more and more factions playable, TWW40k especially if it ends up like TWWH by the end.
That said, yeah. It's Games Workshop being averse to money and success in ways that make sense.
Hear me out🚀
It wasn’t exclusivity
It wasn’t “money-hatting” third party
It wasn’t acquisitions
It wasn’t console wars
It wasn’t “woke” vs. “anti-woke”
It wasn’t “entitled gamers”
It wasn’t COVID or “the economy”
It was the last two CEOs on both sides that single-handedly ruined gaming’s biggest makers, with live service, greed, cookie-cutter creations and the most terrible decisions that only talented creators and studios paid for with closures🎤
Yeah ok everything I keep seeing on Gears E-Day just makes this game look better and better. This might genuinely be a return to the greatness of the original trilogy days
No wonder the exclusivity is generating so much friction lol
The amount of people on social media making fun of June being Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month is disturbing. I see videos from women mocking men even making jokes about the male suicide rate with one woman saying on a video, “I wish it was higher”. DISGUSTING.
The clone jumping on the crab droid is peak cinema but what always stuck with me is the Paratrooper attending to the wounded and... Just the Paratrooper armor in general.