8th Ed. How many care about WHFB anymore?

[Pinktaco]

So now that 9th Age is a thing I'm kinda just seeing the same people responding, so I'm wondering just how many actually care? I wouldn't want to get my hopes up if people are bailing left, right and center.

 

[protector]

I am the majority!

But yes I do care that it continues with the same style of game that warhammer fantasy has been, I would very much be in favor of a fan based system that is well balanced. But I do not post my thoughts because they tend to run perpendicular to others, i.e. I think saurus are undercosted as they are now and that slann are one of the biggest point wastes we have. So I do not want to flavor the upcoming changes with my play style.

 

[Putzfrau]

I'm actually much more interested in just continuing to play 8th, but definitely interested in where the whole 9th thing goes.

 

[classicflava]

I am interested in 9th age or 8th as is but my community is either going with AoS or KoW so I will likely end up playing one of those

 

[Rettile]

i'm interested but i don't like what i'm seeing so far about these fanmade systems. I'm gonna try both AoS and KoW2 aswell as these post-8th systems, then i'll judge. I could keep playing 8th, tho, or go back through older editions

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

I'm curious about 9th Age, but at the same time I am 100% content to stay with 8th if 9th Age does not suit my tastes. I think I would only switch over to 9th Age if it was both...

• an improvement over 8th
  
• accepted and adopted by a large portion of the Warhammer fantasy community

If it fails on either of those two accounts then 8th edition will serve me just fine.

I might look into KoW if they release a Lizards army. AoS on the other hand is a complete and utter waste of time in my opinion.

 

[hardyworld]

I'm curious about 9th Age, but at the same time I am 100% content to stay with 8th if 9th Age does not suit my tastes. I think I would only switch over to 9th Age if it was both...

• an improvement over 8th
  
• accepted and adopted by a large portion of the Warhammer fantasy community

If it fails on either of those two accounts then 8th edition will serve me just fine.

....AoS on the other hand is a complete and utter waste of time in my opinion.

I concur with this.

Honestly, I'm happy to fade into oblivion by staying with 8th Ed. The only thing that limits my fun with 8th Ed. is finding opponents (which will progressively become harder and harder now).

Right now we have too many independent groups of trying to figure out what a 9th Ed. would look like, which fractures the game. I'm trying to stay out of all that discussion, lying in wait to see if anything of significant value remains after the dust settles. Even in the best case scenario, if a Unified 9th Ed. is mutually agreed upon by the community (which I find unlikely, we couldn't even agree upon a comp system)...it still won't be as good as Games-Workshop's 8th Ed. (continuous army/lore updates, new official artwork, new characters, new beasts, new models to drool over....all the stuff that made Warhammer Fantasy fun that never ended).

Warhammer Fantasy was a GREAT high fantasy setting, I will miss it most of all.

 

[ASSASSIN_NR_1]

Warhammer Fantasy was a GREAT high fantasy setting, I will miss it most of all.

This left me with a sad feeling, but I will not give up, i believe it is possible, if unlikely, to have a unified community. It will take a lot of work, but the potential is there.
If everything should end in failure, I will stick with 8th, and probably try out AOS so that my models, that I have spent so much time and money on, will not be a waste.
If I did have a say in the matter at GW, it would be to thrash AOS, and take up WHFB anew, fix it, make it fresh, maybe have a better AOS, as a way for people to get into the hobby, but have WHFB, as the main focus, with lots of support, and marketing, so people will notice it and get drawn into this magnificent world of fantasy.

No matter what, my dinos stay where they are

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

Right now we have too many independent groups of trying to figure out what a 9th Ed. would look like, which fractures the game.

Further fracturing of our already dwindling player base is one of my big fears. I really hope that one system/extension can clearly rise above the rest.

Warhammer Fantasy was a GREAT high fantasy setting, I will miss it most of all.

This left me with a sad feeling, but I will not give up, i believe it is possible, if unlikely, to have a unified community. It will take a lot of work, but the potential is there.

It will be hard, but I still have a glimmer of hope. Either that or find a small gaming group to keep it alive. I hope that at the very least it "8th edition" (in what ever form it takes) stays alive on this forum.

If I did have a say in the matter at GW, it would be to thrash AOS

I would love nothing more than for AoS to completely crash and burn. I doubt it will happen, but it would bring so much joy to my life!

 

[Putzfrau]

I would love nothing more than for AoS to completely crash and burn. I doubt it will happen, but it would bring so much joy to my life!

Why? It won't bring fantasy back. It'll just ensure fantasy in any form it could take will never happen.

I'd never wish something like that to fail, even if I don't particularly enjoy it. I think warmachine is a POS game but I'd never wish it's failure.

 

[Hyperborean]

I care, I mean I will give AoS a shot but I'd still like to play classic stuff. WHFB is like pure high fantasy cheese and really who wants to give that stuff up?

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

Why? It won't bring fantasy back. It'll just ensure fantasy in any form it could take will never happen.

I'd never wish something like that to fail, even if I don't particularly enjoy it. I think warmachine is a POS game but I'd never wish it's failure.

I am fully aware that fantasy is completely dead from GW's perspective. Nothing, including AoS' utter collapse, will bring back fantasy. My desire to see AoS burn is most definitely not tied to an unrealistic belief that fantasy could rise again.

I want AoS to fail for a couple of reasons...

1. Age of Sigmar ushered in the death of fantasy (the declining sales of fantasy might have been the driving force, but the creation of AoS ensured that GW not try to jump start fantasy in some way). I guess it boils down to some sort of sense of justice (or vengeance)!
2. I'm tired of GW's decisions and actions. I want to see them reap the consequences of their mechinations.
   
3. If AoS died completely and quickly, there might be a greater chance that more players might choose to stick with 8th edition (or some variant of 8th edition).

To be honest, if it wasn't for the availability of a few paints that I'm fond of (which need a source of replenishment), I wouldn't mind if GW collapsed as well. I actually used to (perhaps naively) love GW as a company, but their business practices over the last couple of years has greatly shifted my views on them. I recognize the great joy their products have brought me in the past, but I absolutely despise what they have become. If they were to fall, perhaps the gaming community's money could be shifted towards more deserving companies.

Lastly, I simply hate AoS. I view it as a highly inferior product and I'm in complete shock at how many veterans have jumped on board with it. I truly believe that if any other company besides GW had released it, the game would die very quickly. Personally, I just can understand how players can drop 8th edition for a game that is absolutely pathetic in comparison.

These are my personal feelings on the matter. I recognize that others will feel completely differently.

 

[hardyworld]

I am fully aware that fantasy is completely dead from GW's perspective. Nothing, including AoS' utter collapse, will bring back fantasy. My desire to see AoS burn is most definitely not tied to an unrealistic belief that fantasy could rise again.

I'm the opposite. Since I am still in denial about the whole death WHFB, my prayers for AoS to crash and burn horribly are completely tied to my false hopes that a new version of WHFB will rise from its ashes. A completely unrealistic hope, I recognize, but its the only reason I want it to fail. If WHFB can't rise from the ashes, I have no reason to hope other people would not buy it and enjoy it.

I can wish all I want that WHFB shall be resurrected as Warhammer: Age of Myth

However, I know that very soon my friends, opponents, and GTs will all move onto other systems until I'm left all alone in the abyss, floating in the void all alone....

 

[pendrake]

until I'm left all alone in the abyss, floating in the void all alone....

Aaaaaawwwww.

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

until I'm left all alone in the abyss, floating in the void all alone....

I'm sure there will be a few more of us floating in that void.

 

[Slanputin]

I'm likely to shop around all systems: AoS looks fun and easy to do when time is limited, whilst 8th and "9th" (as much as I've seen, I can't review it yet) are there for tactical depth, with 8th being the official fallback come conflict about 9th.

I am a system nomad.

 

[talocofxhotl]

Not a huge fan of some of the changes they have proposed so far. Some of it seems along the right lines but not thought through properly/not taken far enough.

I'd offer my ideas but they seem to have been ignored on my thread so far so I have no feedback to change or improve them.

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

I am a system nomad.

Or a jack of all trades and a master of all.

 

[jevan]

I feel like there is basically a couple heroes that are worth buying at the current point costs. The rest i never buy. Beautiful models that sit on my shelf because I was waiting to see if they were going to balance the costs better. Then AoS came out...

 

[Rikard]

However, I know that very soon my friends, opponents, and GTs will all move onto other systems until I'm left all alone in the abyss, floating in the void all alone....

You won't be alone, if you've learnt anything about me (since we first started talking in 2002/2003 on the old TPV site), it's probably just how stubborn I am.

I'll stick with 8th, even if it rapidly drops off and I won't be chucking my books, or selling anything either, for nostalgia's sake if nothing else. I owe a huge amount of who I am and the things I do because of warhammer and especially Lizardmen (note, I owe warhammer, the artists and writers, many of whom have now left GW, I do not owe GW itself), I could no better cut it from my life, than I could a part of myself.