Athelassan wrote:And notably, what you seem to want from GW is something it has never actually done and never seriously suggested it was going to do, which means the whole diatribe could equally be about McDonalds and would be similarly realistic.
I was a Dan Abnett talk/Q&A in Canterbury a few weeks back where he was chatting about some of the mad works he's undertaken over the years.
His worst, he says, was when he "sold out" and did a bit of comics writing for...
McDonalds.
They sent him a 30+ pages Writer's Bible that covered the entire thorough history of all the 'characters'. He got a few pages flicked into that tome before it was thrown away ('literally out the window', or words to that effect) and the whole thing gracefully backed out of, never to be countenance again.
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It seems one of the fundamental issues re:GW is that they still (arguably even now) see themselves and work miniatures first. Miniatures arrive, *then* the story/setting/lore/fluff comes to fit that. There's a few exceptions, and it's apparently a bit more fluid nowadays, but it's still seemingly the case that if they've got a cool miniature, that'll be priority.
(That also somewhat explains the transition to AoS, if not how bodged and gratuitous/insensitive the End Times were. I mean: fitting the Idoneth Deepkin & Kharadron Overlord models into the Old World may have been... problematic.
But then I think you were right, Ath, in pinpointing the Demigryphs as the point at which the sharp was jumped. Decisions thereafter damned us all, but that was a the first sight of half [demi?] measures hindering rather than helping.)