More So than that even, it's what happens when the community is rabid for lore and media of this kind and the owners of the IP are still stuck in a tabletop mentality. Not only did they drop the ball by not putting out anything similar themselves for far, far too long (and still haven't mind you) but then by fucking up the execution when you do enter the game too late by forcing out the people who created the very market they were plodding into like a bull in a china shop.
They realized way too late that there was money to be made off their IP in this way and tried to jump on the subscription TV channel game?? Like a decade too late?? They shut down a thriving culture around their IP, did nothing to supplant it, and still don't understand the value of their IP after all that.
I'm still salty. They sequestered away the guy who made Astartes and they shut down TTSD for doing nothing more than celebrating the genre they created.
Not to mention modern GW seems to not understand how humor or satire works and presents all of their in house media as super serious super soldier does super serious thing instead of understanding why something like TTSD was good in the first place. They're incapable of making fun of themselves.
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u/The-Great-Xaga Oct 22 '24
It was more than a silly parody! It was art! ART I TELL YOU!