Editing Warhammer 40,000 8th edition (section)

==tl;dr==
In spite of the edition (and inevitable meta) shake-up, the life cycle of Warhammer 40,000 goes on.
*[[Powergamer]]s are actively trying to break the system before it even comes out. For their part, the game designers claim they play-tested the ''shit'' out of 8th so that it isn't a broken mess (like 7th Edition), and specifically referred to stuff like death stars as loopholes to be plugged, so they may yet evade (or at least slow down, because who are we really kidding?) power gaming.
**The unification of the stat line and the general trend to simplification is also going to mean that finding numerically optimised weapons and units is going to be much, much simpler.
**Despite the extensive play-testing, the release of the new edition and indices has still revealed [[40K Rules Blooper Reel#8th Edition|numerous bugs, oddities, loopholes, and just plain mistakes in the rules and wording that the community (naturally) jumped on almost immediately]]. The Codexes and subsequent FAQs have fixed some of these fuck-ups, but quality control is still not GW's strong suit. Which ties into the following point...
*[[Neckbeards]] are raging over the "[[Age of Sigmar|dumbing down]]" of the rules. This is ignoring the fact that 7th edition was a broken, bloated mess with so many different special rules, random charts, cheesy formations, and supplements that by its end it was almost impossible to keep track of what's what. On the other hand, the 8th edition rules ''have'' removed entire layers of tactical decision making (like the loss of facing mechanics) and stripped the unique mechanics and wargear that more esoteric armies relied on and other armies got their character from (the Inquisition in particular got fucked over by this) so they ''do'' have a point, but the Codexes have compensated for the latter issue. Specifically, the Stratagems  introduced in each Codex emulate the effects of several faction-specific abilities and each army gets at least one faction-specific rule; additionally, specific sub-factions within several of the armies which got Codexes now have their own special rules to better depict their preferred fighting styles. BUT at the same time stratagems are broken as fuck, making some games boil down to [[Magic: The Gathering|"I play this card and magic things happen"]]. What is even more retarded is that errata for the main rules is almost as big as core rules, and now to play the game you need core rules, codex, 10 pages of FAQ/Errata, and the supplements and campaign books to access brokenly good stratagems and other shenanigans. Between this, all the beta rules, Chapter Approved and other bullshit following the rules is now a real nightmare. It's <s>almost</s> as bad as 7th edition was by the end of it.
*Tournament Players are rethinking their lists since their 7th Edition "decurion formation detachments" are now invalid. 
*Garagehammer guys are ''still'' in the garage doing their thing.
*Narrative guys are making their own rules and "forging a narrative", now aided by the "Narrative Play" option.
*Lore fans are raging about the Primaris Marines, the shoehorning of even more silly adjective nounverbers and pants-on-head retarded dog-Latin names for obvious copyright/trademark reasons, and the [[Advancing the Storyline|story advancing]] in ways they don't like. Both of the remaining [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Fantasy players]] find that last part to be [[The End Times|as cute as]] [[Age of Sigmar|all hell]].
*[[Games Workshop]] is still trying to take your money, increasing prices by a third since the announcement of 8th edition, forcing Marine players to buy big expensive vehicles to transport Primaris models and charging 25 bucks a book for the equivalent of the warscroll compendiums Fantasy players got for free when AoS dropped. On the bright side, they have also realized that they have to actually listen to their community in order to keep it happy and have been fairly good about addressing rules issues as they come up (though they still struggle to keep said issues from happening in the first place, as seen above).
*The general player base is stuck in the crossfire from the shit-flinging of the Neckbeards and Tournament players.
*Overall, GW's claims that this will be the best edition yet may have been overly optimistic, but there is clearly more work and effort being put into ''trying'' to make 40k better than there has been in a ''very'' long time. For the time being, the community as a whole is relatively content. 

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