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Games Workshop to launch Warhammer-centric streaming service
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- Title
- Warhammer Plus streaming service will come with tons of animated content
- Authors
- Cass Marshall
- Published
- May 24 2021
- Word count
- 370 words
Basically if Astartes was a dedicated streaming service. Looks like a variety of animation styles and stories, but no information yet about business models or pricing structure.
It seems like a strange choice to me honestly. I'd be into the content but I doubt I'd be willing to spend a monthly fee for it. The closest competition would be something like CrunchyRoll, but just think of how much content is on there versus what could reasonably be done in a service like this? Animation is expensive to produce and I have no idea how they could manage to put out enough content to justify it all unless it's purely ad supported.
Indeed, a monthly sub doesn't seem like a good business idea here. I wonder if they'll tie it into their other products? Eg: buy a WH book, get 1 month sub for free, etc.
I find the move for content producers to also be the content delivery network to be really weird. These are different skills. I'd much rather people make content, and then let HBO / Netflix / Amazon / whoever distribute it.
And for WarHammer I'd have thought they'd want to push the lore out to the general public a bit more, to pull more people into playing the game and buying the figures.