Dark Heresy

Let me just echo what we've all been saying today about the decision to close down Black Industries.

WTF?

On Friday they announced the new Dark Heresy book, the Warhammer 40K Role-Playing Game, was sold out. They announce on Monday, the next business day, that they're done with RPG's. They actually told distributors on Friday, so they had their outrage stewing for the full weekend before store owners got to express their disgust. Literally as soon as their product is out the door and in the hands of retailers and distributors, they sabotage everyone by making this announcement.

The inside scoop is that Games Workshop is dissolving Black Industries, despite it being profitable. The staff found out about it with the press release, so there's some animosity out there. They've let us know the list of books that will still be released:

• Inquisitors Handbook (Dark Heresy players guide)
  
• Purge the Unclean (Dark Heresy adventure anthology)
  
• Disciples of the Dark Gods (Dark Heresy source book)
  
• The Thousand Thrones (Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play campaign)

Before everyone has a nervous breakdown and decides that Dark Heresy is a dead product, what if they had announced that it would only have six products in the line? White Wolf has been doing that for their product lines, self-limiting their games to keep product quality and focus in line. I just want to throw that out there because this really is a good game, and I would hate to have people consider it DOA, when it's alive with three more products in the pipeline, not to mention that I've got a dozen $50 rulebooks sitting on my shelves. ;)