A long-running Warhammer content creator has announced the end of their YouTube channel amid Games Workshop takedowns of their 3D printing designs, and burnout from dealing with online complaints and threats.
The Outer Circle, which is run by an Australian creator named “Macca,” has focused on commentary, lore analysts, and getting started guide videos mostly on Games Workshop’s Horus Heresy tabletop. For the uninitiated, Horus Heresy is the sci-fi tabletop wargame set in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the current Warhammer 40,000 setting. It revolves around the foundational Horus Heresy storyline, which sets up the Warhammer 40,000 universe as it is understood today.
For over a decade, The Outer Circle has released videos enthusing about the hobby, but also videos critical of Games Workshop's pricing, rules, and corporate policies. Things came to a head in recent months after The Outer Circle received DMCA takedowns of 3D printing designs of miniatures sold on a website called Cults 3D, which sparked a debate about the legality around selling such designs and how close the designs in question were to Games Workshop’s official miniatures.
Macca, though, has had enough, declaring in a new video titled “The End” that he had finally decided to walk away.
“I’m arguing with idiots,” he said. “And over the years I’ve been on YouTube, I’ve received death threats, I’ve received attempted doxxing, I’ve received all sorts of rude behavior. And to be honest I don’t care.
“I have nothing I can really offer at this point. I tried for years to create my own model lines to fill in the gaps in the product range when models did not exist, to give you more options for your armies. And when I did that, once I sold enough of them, I made them free.
“Nobody seems to rationalize the fact that I have a moral issue with Games Workshop. And that's where my complaints stem from. It's that I believe they're doing the wrong thing by a community that supported them through the good times and the bad and got them to where they are today. And they take it for granted. And they will kill a game system if they think there is a dollar to be made in making a new game system. And I don't think that's fair to the people who've put so much time, effort, and frankly an incredible amount of money because they are incredibly overpriced for what they are.
“As someone who manufactured in the plastics industry for four years, I can tell you as a manager in that industry how overpriced these things are. But people don't care for that. They don't want me to say these things. They have got their party. They've got their flag. They've got their side in the war that they've wedded to and they're happy with that, and that's fine. I don't need to argue with that anymore. I can't change their minds. I am fully aware of this. My advocacy has done very very little over the years.”
سەرچاوەی فەرمی بە زمانی ئینگلیزی: https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-youtuber-pulls-the-plug-after-10-years-amid-games-workshop-takedowns-death-threats-and-doxxing-over-3d-printing-designs
