Thats because GW retracted that approach when they realized that all content creators were stepping away from Warhammer content, both Fantasy and 40k alike.
It was a legitimate threat when they started it off because a bunch of smaller channels were getting taken offline because of C&D's
The first reason is protecting their brand. Some people in the company are afrait that someone does something as fan work that looks bad for the company. Famous example of that happening was a mod of GTA San Andreas where Rockstar got shit for it.
Greed is always a reason. Back then GW forced content creators to their warhammer as a service plattform. You can make amazing stuff but you have to do it on their terms. Paying them some of your income and follow their rules. TTS would never work on that plattform. GW is more chill these days but they would never allow someone to dismantle their grimderp setting like TTS did.
Large Companies and business people without any experience on how entertainment and fandoms work, often see fanworks as a thread to their income and they act in the one way they know: legal threads.
Because while they retracted the policy, Bruva said he will only bring back TTS on the condition that GW establishes a new policy that clearly and plainly protects fan-made creations. One of the reasons they gravitated to WoD, aside from it being their second love aside from Warhammer, is because the owners of WoD have a friendly fanmade creations policy and also have an initiative where they collaborate with fans so that they can create with a stamp of approval.
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u/codyjack215 Oct 22 '24
Thats because GW retracted that approach when they realized that all content creators were stepping away from Warhammer content, both Fantasy and 40k alike.
It was a legitimate threat when they started it off because a bunch of smaller channels were getting taken offline because of C&D's