a setting is made out of narratives.

>>97829407
I can tell this thread is gonna roll heads, pointing out how previous Kirby Era “stagnation” as being no better than capeshit makes people seethe 40k as a timeline did progress albeit extremely slow and status quos for editions were less blatant.

The constant marvel complaints always come from guys who had their head canon shattered

If you're gonna go the narrative route as opposed to a static setting, at least commit to it. Characters get killed, factions get destroyed, new factions arrive. Instead we have the worst of both worlds now, and every time there's a named character around you already know it's going to end up with nothing happening, and even less if two named characters are opposed.

>>97829407
Orignally a setting made up out of various player driven narratives. Now it's just a corporate narrative.

>>97829594
It’s a franchise designed to sell toys and now we have a narrative where nothing happens

>>97829612
Did you personally submit your stories to GW

>>97829594
I think old 40k stagnation was getting tedious but don’t call me a nu 40k slopper there comes a point when you realize do people truly care about the stories you made? Often many /yourdudes/ posts were either ridiculed or ignored and honestly it’s mostly kinda an imperial fanboy thing maybe orks too but I rarely ever see original tau septs or craftwotlds

>>97829407
it's a narrative that goes nowhere or a setting that feels like it's constantly shifting.
It always moves, it goes nowhere

>>97829612
so the players, not just for WH or 40K, used to influence their games through official tourneys and battle reports. Certain models being produced, rules coming about, faction changes could have a reason from there. 40k has kind of done away with that and now instead of marines doing some nonsense, it's the same named marine or primarch or commissar doing it to the point we're gonna see em team up in a novel series eventually.

I'm kinda hoping the rise of 3d printing we'll see something like that again, since even small games can get that going.

>>97829407
Post your minis and I will tell you.

>to just be constant justification of toys fighting
But that's precisely what it's meant to for
>no better than an actual capeshit status quo
Different media have different requirements and are held to different standards based on those different requirements. Shocking, I know