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'Regrettably, This Is Going to Be Our Version of the Dark Age of Technology' — Games Workshop Is Going After Tabletop Si

Popular Tabletop Simulator Steam mods that recreate the in-person Warhammer 40,000 game have reportedly received takedown requests from Games Workshop. While Games Workshop hasn’t commented on its action here — and rarely does in cases such as this — one of the chief creators of Tabletop Simulator Warhammer 40,000 mods alleged that the UK company was to blame. Tabletop Simulator is a long-running and popular physics sandbox designed to let people make their own board games in virtual form. It launched over a decade ago on Steam, where there are thousands of community-created mods, including Warhammer 40,000 mods. This week saw the launch of the 11th Edition of Warhammer 40,000, Games Workshop’s flagship tabletop game and one of the biggest releases in the company’s history. It sells pricey box sets packed with miniatures to fans, who then assemble, paint, and deploy on a battlefield using the new rules and units introduced by this latest edition of the game. Already, 11th Edition mods were made available on TS Warhammer Steam Workshop, but two of the most high-profile are now removed. A modder called hutber, who had released an 11th Edition map for TTS just a week ago, took to redd

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'Regrettably, This Is Going to Be Our Version of the Dark Age of Technology' — Games Workshop Is Going After Tabletop Simulator Steam Mods That Recreate Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition

Popular Tabletop Simulator Steam mods that recreate the in-person Warhammer 40,000 game have reportedly received takedown requests from Games Workshop. While Games Workshop hasn’t commented on its action here — and rarely does in cases…

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'Regrettably, This Is Going to Be Our Version of the Dark Age of Technology' — Games Workshop Is Going After Tabletop Simulator Steam Mods That Recreate Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition

Popular Tabletop Simulator Steam mods that recreate the in-person Warhammer 40,000 game have reportedly received takedown requests from Games Workshop. While Games Workshop hasn’t commented on its action here — and…

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