If this was a business decision, then even if it’s a business decision that we don’t love, it’s not “wrong” per se. The question with all of this is: is this immoral? Because that’s where these conversations tend to go. I want to know all of that, but it’s just a blank screen at the end of the animations. Every time I watch an animation on Warhammer Plus, I always wish that there were credits at the end that told us who did what–who was the production designer, the voice actors, the writers. The other part of this that I don’t like is that the animators that were absorbed into Games Workshop have lost their sense of identity.
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YouTube animations were essentially free advertising for Games Workshop, but now it’s either absorbed into Warhammer Plus, or gone entirely. And I do feel bad for these people, and I think that Games Workshop made kind of a crappy move. From what we have heard (which I take with a pinch of salt because I’ve only heard it third-hand) the cease-and-desist issuance that these animators got was pretty bad. I will admit that I had, at the time that this all went down, only watched Astartes–though I loved it–and some of the the more notable animations, like the Emperor’s Text to Speech channel, were unknown to me. It’s not a great deal, especially for people who had been making an entire career out of creating Warhammer animations.
The thing is, Games Workshop approached the YouTube Warhammer animation content creators and made them an offer they couldn’t refuse: work with us, or shut down. I am not at the level of “hate” but I am at the level of “Games Workshop, that was kind of a low blow.” Okay, so this is the biggest reason to dislike Warhammer Plus, and, in my opinion, the only major reason to hate it. Some of them are big enough to make me angry, and some of which are just kind of minor-league annoying. Now, there are some perfectly legitimate problems with Warhammer Plus, and I’m not going to gloss over them. What Are the Legitimate Criticisms of Warhammer Plus?
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Plus, Warhammer Plus gives me a neat model at the end of the year. There are also battle report channels on YouTube that I like and support, and there are also lore channels that I like and support.Īnd this, ultimately, is my argument: if I am willing to pay $4 a month for a once-a-week painting video, or a twice-a-week lore channel, then why am I not willing to pay $6 a month to get, on average, a battle report, a lore video, a painting tutorial, and several issues of (admittedly old) White Dwarf magazines in the Warhammer Vault? I argue that there is no difference. The one Patreon that I support at the highest level will post as many as three painting videos a week. Typically, this is a single painting video once a week, sometimes every two weeks. I’m paying them this for content that they deliver once every one or two weeks. I toss them two or four or six dollars a month. I support a lot of YouTube creators on Patreon.
(And there are some reasons which I think are completely unfounded.) But let’s start with my thesis, and then we’ll try to back it up with some argument. Warhammer Plus has gotten a lot of heat, and there’s some very real reasons for it. But I do think that it’s worth it for the money. Okay, let’s get something out of the way right up front. I know this is controversial, but I don’t think Warhammer Plus is terrible. We may earn money or products from the companies mentioned in this post.
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