freakinacage
Well-known member
ditto
i reckon it\'ll go from strength to strength. \'geek chic\' is in. i reckon it\'ll be more widely acknowledged and become more mainstream (although never mainstream i\'m sure!)
Where do you see CMON & the mini industry in 10 years?
- Thread starter airhead
- Start date
i reckon it\'ll go from strength to strength. \'geek chic\' is in. i reckon it\'ll be more widely acknowledged and become more mainstream (although never mainstream i\'m sure!)
Torn blue sky
New member
GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!
You\'re such an optimist Kev, and thats why we love you lol
rocketandroll
New member
I would agree with others who have said, if computer gaming was going to \'destroy\' tabletop gaming, it would have happened by now. Just as e-books won\'t ever replace paper and ink, people will always want something physical to interact with.
1st person shoot-em-ups certainly haven\'t dented the market for Paintball and Airsoft gaming, uf anything, they\'ve increased it. I think the fantasy/sci fi strategy games on consoles and PC\'s will only boost tabletop gaming.
I think GW are on a bit of a downward spiral IMHO, having seen what they\'ve been up to the last few years and working in the toy/games industry myself, I feel they didn\'t capitalise as they should have on the massive, but short lived, income boost from the LOTR franchise and are a little too stuck in their ways... they aren\'t spending enough time or money on looking at the future and aren\'t willing to accept that anything other than the status quo could be viable... they also have a tendency to loose their best creative staff at an alarming rate.
I would also agree that there will be an increase in the number of small mini producers coming from the painting/modelling scene and producing low volume stuff for all of us painting geeks, which can only be a good thing.
I think, unfortunately, Rackham may dissapear following the (imho very bad) decision to start veering towards pre-painted plastic minis which I think seriously alienates their primary market in a vain attempt to capture a new larger market who, without gargantuan (and unfeasable) marketing spend they won\'t capture.... which is a pitty.
In general, I don\'t think that an enormous amount will change. Like many niche hobbies I think what we do will always have a level of interest at which things reach equilibrium. Surges such as LOTR and the GW/MB tie ins will come and go but overall things tend to even out with a general trend to growth in line with population.
Jeez that all sounds excessively dull
Screw it, I go with the zombie appocalypse scenario.
\"Crshhhhhhht\"
\"This is Robert Neville, I am a survivor living in New York, if anyone can hear me... do you fancy a game of 40K?\"
Ben
1st person shoot-em-ups certainly haven\'t dented the market for Paintball and Airsoft gaming, uf anything, they\'ve increased it. I think the fantasy/sci fi strategy games on consoles and PC\'s will only boost tabletop gaming.
I think GW are on a bit of a downward spiral IMHO, having seen what they\'ve been up to the last few years and working in the toy/games industry myself, I feel they didn\'t capitalise as they should have on the massive, but short lived, income boost from the LOTR franchise and are a little too stuck in their ways... they aren\'t spending enough time or money on looking at the future and aren\'t willing to accept that anything other than the status quo could be viable... they also have a tendency to loose their best creative staff at an alarming rate.
I would also agree that there will be an increase in the number of small mini producers coming from the painting/modelling scene and producing low volume stuff for all of us painting geeks, which can only be a good thing.
I think, unfortunately, Rackham may dissapear following the (imho very bad) decision to start veering towards pre-painted plastic minis which I think seriously alienates their primary market in a vain attempt to capture a new larger market who, without gargantuan (and unfeasable) marketing spend they won\'t capture.... which is a pitty.
In general, I don\'t think that an enormous amount will change. Like many niche hobbies I think what we do will always have a level of interest at which things reach equilibrium. Surges such as LOTR and the GW/MB tie ins will come and go but overall things tend to even out with a general trend to growth in line with population.
Jeez that all sounds excessively dull
Screw it, I go with the zombie appocalypse scenario.
\"Crshhhhhhht\"
\"This is Robert Neville, I am a survivor living in New York, if anyone can hear me... do you fancy a game of 40K?\"
Ben
airhead
Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
Thanks. Guess I was having a bad day. I\'ve seen two good gaming cons go down the tubes in the last two years. The cons I do make seem to be GW or nothing. (other than the historic military guys - they play some neat stuff.)
Yea, MtG did not kill minis.
Clix did not kill minis.
D&D is still hear (but all my 3.5 stuff may soon be worthless with 4.0 )
GW is still the game to play at most cons despite several attempts by other decent games (Warmachine, Warlord, etc.)
There still is not a good wild west game.
Garage shops are still cranking out the best manga resins.
I still have a large box full of unpainted minis (lots of it real lead).
Stay the course.
PegaZus
Stealth Freak
Originally posted by mud duck
As for continuing, some of you all have/having kids right? Something tells me that kids will pick up the habit of their parents. So go forth, and multiple, sayith the Great Geek God!
Ugh. I\'ve had to spend about the same amount on my son\'s stuff (5 years old) as my own. Luckily, Crayola makes a washable paint, so he can keep repainting his stuff. Which is good since a Eldar takes him about 30 seconds to paint.
But now his big thing is Heroscape. He bought the Marvel Superheros version over Christmas and insists on playing at least once a day. Drives me a bit crazy. We\'ve enlisted all of his Toy Story figurines, which are only a little too big. Plus, all of his Eldar, skeletons, and other minis have made the game. Nothing quite like Captain America beating the snot out of Woody and a snakeman in the same round.
So take heart pessimists! The young are learning to game without a monitor!
squig hunter
New member
Nah mate, it will be: \"Europes next top mini\" *blech*
Squig
I have no glue where the mini industry will be in 10 years, but I think it will be still alive. Since I\'m an optimist I think there will be great Tabletop battles ahead!!
Concerning the PC Games I think it will refresh the Mini-gaming painting scene (Thinking of Warhammer Online...).
In fact the PC-Game DOW got me back to painting my 40K Minis again! Also many of my friends got interested in the industry and said something like:
\"Woah, cool! There are nice minis of my favourite PC-Unit.\"
A friend of mine got his a mini of his fav army Tau in his DOW colours as brithday present from me...he loves it and right now it stands in front of his working place (at a managment company) even making more advertisment for this scene...
One wish for the future: I\'D love to see more Minigaming-systems not relating on big armies, but on small warbands. So we can paint about 5 great Minis with love and actually can start playing XD.
More Mordheim!!!.....Less Apocalypse!!
Concerning the PC Games I think it will refresh the Mini-gaming painting scene (Thinking of Warhammer Online...).
In fact the PC-Game DOW got me back to painting my 40K Minis again! Also many of my friends got interested in the industry and said something like:
\"Woah, cool! There are nice minis of my favourite PC-Unit.\"
A friend of mine got his a mini of his fav army Tau in his DOW colours as brithday present from me...he loves it and right now it stands in front of his working place (at a managment company) even making more advertisment for this scene...
One wish for the future: I\'D love to see more Minigaming-systems not relating on big armies, but on small warbands. So we can paint about 5 great Minis with love and actually can start playing XD.
More Mordheim!!!.....Less Apocalypse!!
Oh and on the thing on the point of prepainted minis. Actually I\'m not worried about it from a painting point of view (*rattle* *rattle* pfffft..pfffft. There\'s the base coat...).
I\'m rather worried about the idea that somewhere in a poor country people (kids?) are sitting in a factory with bad working conditions putting some toxic paints on little minis for us rich people to play with them...that\'s a sad view. And that\'s why I think I will not buy one of those minis...
I\'m rather worried about the idea that somewhere in a poor country people (kids?) are sitting in a factory with bad working conditions putting some toxic paints on little minis for us rich people to play with them...that\'s a sad view. And that\'s why I think I will not buy one of those minis...
freakinacage
Well-known member
i reckon i still won\'t have finished painting all my stuff by the time i die even if they stop producing stuff!!
Amazon warrior
New member
Problem? What problem? I don\'t have a problem.
[size=-2]...shineys, shineys, my shineys. Mine. All my shineys....[/size]
[size=-2]...shineys, shineys, my shineys. Mine. All my shineys....[/size]
fieldarchy
New member
Did you try DKS?
