what happened to the GW forums~?

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matt15595

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I seem to remember that GW had their own forums on the GamesWorkshop website


Have they got rid of them or can i just not find them?


THANKS
 
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matt15595

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hahaha thats quite funny

but also a shame because although these forums are amazing (and better than the GW were) i wanted to use those forums aswell because they are more based around GW (obviously)
 
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skeeve

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Originally posted by matt15595
hahaha thats quite funny

but also a shame because although these forums are amazing (and better than the GW were) i wanted to use those forums aswell because they are more based around GW (obviously)
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The official version was that people on their forum were discussing things like star war themed army, Halo themed armies, babylon5 themed armies and suchlike.
That created certain amount of legal problem, because this forum was a part of GW corporate site and potentially could be construed as infringement of intellectual rights. They asked nicely to cease and desist
but people payed no attention.
GW is big but when it comes to legal wrangling not nearly as big as Lucas Art or Microsoft
 
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Shadzar

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and oddly enough WotC has created their forums Gleemax.com and such to encompass all gaming no matter who makes it.

this means that GW fans may end up their in their own area of the wizards.com site under the guise of a new domain name for the forums area.

i guess Hasbro has enough money to not care about GW, or the others. not that Lucas would have a problem since i think WotC makes the star wars minis game...
 
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Ritual

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Originally posted by matt15595
hahaha thats quite funny

but also a shame because although these forums are amazing (and better than the GW were) i wanted to use those forums aswell because they are more based around GW (obviously)
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Go to Warseer then. There you will find GW centered discussions.
 
green stuff

green stuff

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Message original : Ritual
Ever heard of this thing called Google? :]
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And let\'s not forget the search function of this site since ... this subject (no more forum on GW\'s site) has already been discussed here :p :

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=17070
 
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ScottH

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Hi guys,
1st post, but I thought I might point you towards this site too
http://www.horusheresy.co.uk/

I don\'t know if anyone has been there yet, if so then please ignore this post, but it is a recent \"remake\" of a similar one that was killed off by an angry mod.
All are welcome, there are a few CMoNers there too.

Cheers
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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Well my two pence worth, I\'m not surprised that the GW forums closed down, only that they weren\'t closed down a lot earlier than they were.

I have to say that the moderation was, in my opinion, Heavy Handed (Irony) silencing any criticism of GW either in products or policy.
And to be totally truthful the times I went on weren\'t that enjoyable. Most of the threads were drivel originated by very blinkered teenage Fanboys, which has also coloured my opinion against any other GW Specific Forums.

In truth I prefer this site above 90% of all others. (Ahhhhhhhh!):D
 
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Shadzar

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Originally posted by Ritual
Ever heard of this thing called Google? :]
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no what\'s that, some new european car? :rolleyes:

or might it be that is i really cared enough to find it i might have looked. but with this new DNS redirection crap that spams you with ISP ads when a domain doesn\'t exist i don\'t bother looking for things on a passing fancy anymore.

and you can still google for Portent but it doesnt matter that you just find a page saying its no longer in service.

anymore smart-a comments that have no real purpose?

and those GW \"fanboys\" are most likely to be the ones starting in the mini painting hobby as it is one of the two largest mini manufacturers of unpainted minis. they have the largest coverage so odds are you will find more of them IRL, and see more here as time passes.

if you don\'t like GW stuff then you don\'t have to buy it. doesn\'t mean you have to insult those who do like because you don\'t.

EOL
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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Originally posted by Shadzar
anymore smart-a comments that have no real purpose?
Shadzar; I really suspect that you do not understand the habitual behaviour of these forums in both Sarcasm and Ironic commentary. Ritual was simply pointing out, in an ironic and humourous manner, that with a little bit of effort you could easily have found the information yourself.

and those GW \"fanboys\" are most likely to be the ones starting in the mini painting hobby as it is one of the two largest mini manufacturers of unpainted minis. they have the largest coverage so odds are you will find more of them IRL, and see more here as time passes.

if you don\'t like GW stuff then you don\'t have to buy it. doesn\'t mean you have to insult those who do like because you don\'t.
As someone who plays GW games, buys their products (for close to 20 years) and occasionally freelances for them I most seriously do not dislike their products. BUT I am, like a number of people here, not blinkered to the existance of other games, miniature manufacturers or am oblivious to any other form of paint or painting, which is what is generally defining a FANBOY.
What a great many of the forum denizens here do find annoying is this blinkered GW is GOD attitude which GW fanboys exude.
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generulpoleaxe

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@shadzar, i think you will find historical companies producing and selling far more plastic toysoldiers and vehicles than gw.

and yes, fanboys of any company annoy me.
yes, i was a blinkered fanboy once, and it caused me to miss out on finding a lot of great miniatures provided by so many companies. (especialy ones that understand what human proportions are realy like)
 
Avelorn

Avelorn

Sven Jonsson
I do have to say that anti-GW people are equally annoying in that respect. Someone that says \"Crap!\" whenever GW does anything and always have the most cynical explanation for GW\'s actions...

Most are a little bit of both I guess.
 
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Shadzar

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Originally posted by Dragonsreach
As someone who plays GW games, buys their products (for close to 20 years) and occasionally freelances for them I most seriously do not dislike their products. BUT I am, like a number of people here, not blinkered to the existance of other games, miniature manufacturers or am oblivious to any other form of paint or painting, which is what is generally defining a FANBOY.
What a great many of the forum denizens here do find annoying is this blinkered GW is GOD attitude which GW fanboys exude.
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sorry blue inline replies don\'t work well for my eyes on this \"white\" background, maybe if they were bolded as well as blue...

but anyway. i likewise feel that GW is the devil with their pricing and poor releases of rules. but i like them. i like the look of some of their minis, and the game. i understand the \"sheep\" that follow them with the wool pulled over their eyes and can\'t see to paint beyond GW or beyond the fluff, but fanboy is a deragative(sp) term and can be done without. like Grognard etc when referring to D&D.

and no need in a spam/pointless post made jsut to insult a large group of people or a single person that has no value to the topic at hand. i didn\'t even know if i speleld dakka dakka correctly it has been years since i played or bothered looking up info on 40k.

but call me a \"fanboy\" if you want because i prefer GW paints because i have 3 sets of the last produced screw tops.

so while some attitudes may see insulting as joking, i do not. i see it as blatant attack on someone you know nothing about and don\'t know if they care for that garbage.

not all people are beer-swilling rednecks that sit around punching each other in the face because they are bored. and i use a friends description there as that is what he calls himself...

@generulpoleaxe:

also there are Revell and all those that make model cars and such, but not always will those people get into mini painting such as Reaper, GW, etc of the \"little people\" as my grandmother calls them.

but you likewise will admit that likeing a game doesn\'t make you solely confined to painting for that games products if you like painting right? for example one friend i play 40k with hates to paint and therefore only paints 40k minis because they need to be. but playing DDM and Mage Knight because he liked the games and didn\'t have to paint them.

it really depends on the backgroudn and interest of the person be it \"GW fanboy\" or othe as to why they paint. looking down on them because they only want to paint one thing doesn\'t further the community of hobby painters. and with more hobby stores closing in my area i personally would like to see things adgvacne hobby painting rather than reduce its existance to nothing.

but this is all off-topic.

@Avelorn:

as with D&D now it could be that there are some anti-GW people without the fanbase because they don\'t like the direction changes are being made. change just for the sake of change is pointless. if you are bored with one activity then try another. maybe you will come back to the previous, maybe not. no reason to discount the opinons of those who still enjoy it or try to change it just for a few people that don\'t like it.

that is what the non-tournament environment is for. make up your own rules and have fun. they are all games.

something a few 2nd AD&D players i know tried to tell people but couldn\'t prevent the lemmings from following WotC.

yes i used sheep and lemmings. they are a bit deragatory, but i feel these extremists can be equated to the actual context of the animals where in \"fanboy\" is too braod and may not properly identify who it is you are talking about. the average gamer of a specified product, or those extremists. and i prefer not to generalize all players of one game, or participant of one hobby to just a vague definition.

that would be too like classifying my with Da Vinci because with both paint. and heaven knows i an nowhere near any levels of his in brush control alone! lol
 
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