Milo wrote:Shouldn't we wait and see what happens before we start organizing to "take it back"? So far, these changes seem to be minor. I don't think anyone will revolt because some star players are changed slightly, and I don't think anyone SHOULD revolt if GW decides to release the game somewhat piecemeal to lengthen their revenue stream (and give consumers more time to spread out their purchases as well.)
Won't and wouldn't matter either way. GW abandoned Blood Bowl for several years and nobody stepped up that people would listen to. If GW made sweeping, terrible changes there's really no reason to assume that would change... plenty of people are willing to lead but almost nobody is interested in following.
In the past seven or eight years the only 3rd party leadership that the Blood Bowl world has even remotely followed is Cyanide's, with their made-up rosters gaining some traction in other venues. Nobody asked for their changes and most of us opposed their changes, but those changes still carried weight.
What this tells me is that, at least in the Blood Bowl world, talking about stuff is strictly a conservative tool - it can be used to dilute any liberal attempts at change. What's stronger in the long term, and works as a liberal tool is slapping the changes you want down in front of people in such a way that they can, with no effort of their own, play your ideas and in doing so create their own inertia.
So... that limits the practical power to "take charge" in any fashion to four bodies (in order of strength): GW, the NAF, Cyanide, and FUMBBL. Those are the people who have the ability to push changes in front of people without the players needing to voluntarily buy into them. Of them, only GW and Cyanide are at all likely to make any significant attempts to change things, and those two are directly related to one another.
Even as members of the former BBRC slowly show up they don't really represent a force that could add itself to that list. They represent a group that could add credibility to one of the four if they chose to, but on their own probably couldn't accomplish anything.
I think all of the "lets take over the world" stuff is pissing into the wind even if GW decides to replace dice with coin flips, roll out space marine rosters, and focus the game around being a CCG.