I actually decided to quit WoW because the changes in Legion were so strongly to my dislike that I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy WoW again.
I dunno if Nathan was ever really a WH40k fan or not. He may have been unfamiliar with what "venerable" means in 40k. The good news is that he sees the error that was made, and they are working on fixing it. I think this means that they're going to update the looks of venerable weapons so that they look as they should.
Man, 22 pages was a long read in one go on mobile. Ok, you've talked the subject out, and I'm not here to tell you how to feel about who gets what. What I can tell you is that Bhvr did not spend a crazy amount of time making new items to entice new players with while screwing you over. The RTS armour and helmet/shoulderpad obviously, but... The weapons are chromed copies of existing models. Gilt boltgun, alt knife, Ragespitter, alt knife, tracey shoota (with drum mag), alt knife, gatekeeper's bastion, and a pistol. What this says from a development side is that someone figured out how to do a chrome finish in a really easy way. Which is a shame, because these do look really cool. But don't feel that the devs poured massive amounts of time into this new content at the expense of you. It's hard to know how something is going to turn out, whether the chrome will catch the light right, whether the rust effect will have the texture and the blue will be distinctive or boring. In hindsight, yes rusted weapons was not a good look, but the inherent vision wasn't wrong. Not telling you how to feel. Be miffed, be outraged, feel robbed, I don't disagree. But understand that the actual work value associated with this bundle was probably minimal. *2 years in the future when diresword is released, Mael Dannan looks like crap and there's a sleek silver version- watch as I backtrack on all of this and swear bloody vengeance*
Personally, I think "Venerable" would vary from faction to faction. With the exception of Orks, I think the other factions perspective on them would go something like this- "What's in there?" "The most holy of our weapons, the Blastinator." "Can I see it?" "Kill 10,000 enemies and you can petition to get closer to the building." "Did you kill 10,000 enemies?" "I killed enough to be here and prevent you from getting closer to the building." "Okay. I'll try to kill 10,000 enemies." "Once you do, you can talk to the guy 20 feet behind me and fulfill his requirements." For Orks (sorry, I suck at Orkese)- "Did you hear about the weapon that Grok uses?" "No, what of it?" "It has killed so many people that it gives magical powers to those that use it." "Wow. I want magical powers. Time to kill Grok and take it from him." "He uses it a lot, so it is a little beaten and rusty. So if you survive, get a tetanus shot." So, in my opinion, an Ork venerable weapon would be well-used (like a favorite weapon), where the other factions would regard them as religious symbols. They certainly wouldn't let it fall into a state of disrepair.
We just want Venerable weapons that can actually be defined as Venerable. Then we're happy. Take the Sternguard Bolter, remove the scope and add a normal mag. That would be a venerable bolter. @Oveur With the color change depending on faction it would be perfect.
As you know, they just doing copy paste over and over even that new CSM golden 500k req sword is just recoloured version of LSM duelist blade...
To be fair, this is what a venerable object looks like in real life. http://www.ocfrealty.com/sites/www.ocfrealty.com/files/images/Liberty_Bell.jpg Its age really did make it deteriorate.
