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Privateer Press goes to all 3D-printing for Warmachine MK4
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1) A new MK4 edition of Warmachine
2) Folding Hordes into Warmachine, no longer will be separate
3) Declaring that both metals and hard plastics are too expensive, now all new product will be 3D printed (!!!)
4) Assigning all previous MK1 thru MK3 stuff to be essentially retired/ghettoized into a new legacy format separate from new stuff
5) Cards will no longer be printed, you must use the Warmachine app for stats
I have been surprised PP has survived this long (recently running Kickstarters to create/support standalone Iron Kingdoms games like Riot Quest and Neo-Mechanika.) Resorting to purely 3D printing seems like an absolute last resort in the face of increasing prices (even mid-range publishers can typically go to in-house resin production if Chinese plastics end up out-of-reach) so I would not want to be an Iron Kingdoms fan in the face of this news.
Starter boxes with 22 3D-printed minis are reportedly slated to run you $200, and that's not even for a full 100pt army. So I wish them good luck with those economics!
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Then in 2016 they cracked down on "free rider" OLGS that weren't sufficiently bending the knee. Their stuff started going on clearance at a lot of major OLGS and Warmachine in general seemed to disappear from the greater hobby consciousness. No buzz, no hype, no eyeballs that I saw.
I don't know what industrial style 3D-printing mechanisms they plan on using, but it had better be some pretty grand stuff to charge the prices they think people will pay for a game that has all but vanished from the minds of most.
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With the burning of bridges with FLGS's during the MKIII era, simplifying their product and production lines makes a certain degree of sense but effectively killing off all of the old stuff with the promise of rules for an alternative format sounds like a huge middle finger to veteran players. I guess the giant pile of Cryx in my parent's house just got a even more inconvenient to shift.
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It's one of the interesting things about minis wargaming is that almost all of the larger, serious competitors to GW were started by ex-GW employees. Mike McVey at Privateer Press, Ronnie Rention at Mantic, John Stallard and Rick Priestley at Warlord, Alessio Cavatore at River Horse, and more. All were longtime GW employees who left when GW became more about the business and less about the hobby.
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This seems like a silly question, but how easy is it to scale an object designed for 3d printing? I wonder if it would be possible to request that they print a bunch of the new Monpoc 2.0 figures at the slightly smaller Monpoc 1.0 scale?
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Scaling is trivial. I usually have to scale everything I print to fit my particular needs. No idea if it is different for mass production processes.Virabhadra wrote: This seems like a silly question, but how easy is it to scale an object designed for 3d printing? I wonder if it would be possible to request that they print a bunch of the new Monpoc 2.0 figures at the slightly smaller Monpoc 1.0 scale?
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