for me, it would be Nintendo… In General
any time people are critical of something Nintendo-related it gets treated as a widespread boycott.
That way when the supposed “boycott” is inevitably unsuccessful, Nintendo devotees can sarcastically go “Another successful boycott, right??”
Has happened with every Pokemon release on the Switch since Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee
As someone who also enjoys Nintendo stuff, I find it pretty difficult to criticize Nintendo without a bunch of fans getting really defensive about it.
Like with this recent Switch 2 “boycott” narrative
there isn’t a boycott, it’s just simply people reacting to market conditions and overall economic conditions.
Wages haven’t met with inflation, games are getting expensive, times are hard right now with layoffs and a bad stock market. Prices for goods across the board are going up. Is it any wonder that people are just going to continue playing what they have or buy a cheaper (and maybe more powerful) alternative instead of being early adopters for a new console and 70-90 dollar games?
What the fuck. Like I remember flyers being given normal rules in 6e, but the rest sounds wild. Do the superheavies still have X strength attacks or did they at least get reigned in?
5e was when I started, but that was all true then too. Extremely slow to update things, with a lot of army lists being one or two editions old at that point. I remember hearing relatively positive buzz about them starting to issue updated army lists in 6e, but never really got back into it.
Strength and toughness are no longer capped at 10, so yes titans don’t just have strength “instant kill whatever is hit.” They’ll have stuff like strength 20 main guns and vehicles themselves often have high toughness (a Land Raider is t12). The system is more streamlined, too. Your strength is either half or less of the target’s toughness, less than, equal to, greater than, or double. Rolls of 1 always fail and rolls of 6 always succeed.
It’s more an issue of scale. Games get really cluttered when you’re trying to fit a Stompa onto a 4’x6’ table. You’ll see things deployed in corners practically on top of one another behind cover with vehicles facing every which way.