The Culture: Remember That The Mammon Mob Trumps The Death Cult

Catalyst Game Labs dun goofed.

This not because of Troons, Gay Race Communism, or other Death Cult insanity.

This is pure Mammon Mobster insanity, all in service of Line Must Go UP! Why? Because someone at CGL figured that Muh Multiverse allowed them to unleash the Endless Product Slop business model that the mainline game has not been able to do.

No one asked for this. No one wants this. No one wants any other Muh Multiverse take on this. No one at CGL got told how comically litigious Games Workshop is, or how this approaches the lore for Pacific Rim or the aesthetics of Trench Crusade. If this doesn't tied up in LOLsuits, I will be surprised; at the very least I expect some Cease & Desist letters firing off in the near future.

As Mage Leader said, this is trumping the existing business obligations of the company and the serving of the established audience. This is a top-down imposition by the management, not an organic iterative development born of analysis of the audience's Revealed Preferences.

As this is meant to be the first in a series of sub-lines, each with their own setting and continuity, we're seeing CGL repeat TSR's mistakes with the explosion of D&D settings under late AD&D1e and all of AD&D2e- the thing Wizards of the Coast (under Dancey and company) wisely ended when they took control.

What this means is that CGL's C-Suite does not care about the core audience. They will do as they like, as they see the audience as Normie paypigs who will eat the slop.

Wizkids and FASA thought that too. Look what happened to them. Time to watch the Razorfist video again.

Remember that Captain Harlock is your friend, MegaMek is free, and that CGL hates you- so don't give them money.