What is pp doing? did this breach their rules?

Yep, sounds about right. >_>

TBH I think they are having some Grymkin related insanity from their ARG thats just carried over. Though its more likely they are tired of our **** and decided to kick us to a curb and hope we become as over invested as some sections of GW's fanbase.

I'm not sure we're breaking the rules when the mods charged with enforcing said rules are literally saying "go somewhere else to talk about warmachine." And locking the threads that attempt to do just that.

i can see what you mean, maybe a bit harsh in some regards but i don't feel its wrong. It's not a forum if people can't discus ideas, i don't want to have to sign up to their crappy rules just to learn about the new things that are coming to the game. I Say this coming from someone who loves playing the game, but i'm stuck in a buying freeze and have yet to jump ship to another game and i don't want to.

I get its hard to make a game like this work but focus on the game not all the other shit and make that air tight then spin all your books, toys, and crap. Completely neglecting factions or destroying the value in people collections is not going to get us to buy more of the new hotness. It works quite the opposite in fact. get something new get burnt.. get something new get burnt... stop buying things. Hoping PP gets its shit together soon.

Well, they should have given us a few weeks to sort it out before closing the forums. It's fine to separate the passionate discussion topics from the official forums, and there are numerous good reasons for that (for us and for them), but the way they handled it was just spiteful and destructive.

As I see hit, PP made some big mistakes recently. The forum was the last straw breaking the camel back for probably a portion of players. But I feel like they took some bad decisions rivalling with Tom Kirby era in GW. And everyone knows how bad Tom Kirby was as a CEO.

1)I'm not complaining about the mk3 rules. I've been a fan of them from day one. Playing khador probably plays a huge part on this but I understand why people are upset. Some people had half or more of the armies invalidated. It's OK to boost jacks but don't nerf infantry to ground. Some issues were created by the infantry heave nerfing. If you play the mad dog spam army into a old cryx army I don't know if the mad dogs will cut it. The balancing on the jacks was fine (power and point wise) but the infantry needed to remain the same.


2) the freeloader policy. Really? I understand you want to empower brick and mortar stores but hitting good stores like dgi wasn't nice at all. The decline of brick and mortar is caused mostly by pigheaded owners than outside supposedly unfair competition.

3) the invalidating erratas. Some stuff were overcorrected. Karchev could have retained the full feat of they were going to nerf the dogs. I mean that was tricky since nerf karchev and people would play mad dogs with Vlad, nerf mad dogs and people would spam something else with karchev. But yes it was too much. Problem is some stuff will be strong but people need to deal with it. Playing vs Karchev was not at the same level of playing vs Haley 2 were you are going to have a frustrating game no matter what. Also when nerfs are made you cannot made pieces utterly garbage. Things like una2 shouldn't have happened in the first time because of you take out the no melee feat from the mk2 casters due to negative player experience, why the hell you bring it back?

4) Princing. Yes I feel the pricing of PP stuff is becoming GW ridicolous. Actually if you made some calculations, PP models are even more expensive of GW without reaching the same level of quality. I would buy a GW mawkrusha any day instead of a PP colossal. They have roughly the same size, but the colossals kinda sucks (saw several of them in person, not impressed) the mawkrusha is awesome. The starter boxes are very poor in quality and character jacks at the prize of 65 USD are ridicolous. Nothing and I say nothing justify the price tag of them. Apart we made them incredibly good so you want to have them. A gw start collecting box with a big model, a hero and infantry is roughly the same price.

5) All the negativity/toxicity talk was toxic itself. People on forums fight. Some fights are OK and even entertaining, some of them become flame. I've been on Italian forums for decades and mods know when let a entertaining fight going on a bit and when shut down a flame.
Removing all the places of discussion is incredibly short sighted. It makes the company appear tyrannical and incapable of handling complaints. Looks like that things went downward when the community manager was employed. It's always like this. Companies tend to employ community managers who do not play the game, do not know what players are passionate about, can't handle that certain type of community. Warmahordes community was kinda hardcore so yes it will be a time when shit hit the fan, but deal with it firmly instead of shutting down everything. I have no reason to go on the official forum anymore, for them it's fine as long as I keep buying, but without the excitement going around in the forum, would I?
In the very beginning PP made fun of GW, I remember when they launched the game and had page 5. People bought into them because they were tired of GW. Now they become the exact image of the company they were despising so much. What reason do I have to support them instead of GW? Basically none.
It's true, when you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss will stare back at you.

...and they're releasing a new tabletop game this year, more of a skirmish level game with a world that involves fantasy elements...

(Guild Ball is good fun too)