Is Anyone Playing Warhammer 40K? 

Started 40k with the launch of 10th edition, love it, play 2-3 times a week.

Still playing. Started recently, towards the end of 9th edition.

Been playing since the end of 4th, early 5th. And I can't say I've really liked 9th or 10th. Mostly been playing Old World, Trench Crusade, and I play Apoc with my local group once a month.

It's more popular than ever lol

Yes loads of people are still playing 40k probably more than ever

I play my own heavily modded version of the rules. Love the lore but I can't play an "I Go You Go" game.

Our local game shop has the right vibe and the game seems more popular than ever. Im lazy so i only play about 2 to 3 games per month but could be much more

Yes? I have been playing in my area since 6th edition, at two different game stores near a major city in the US. We have never had more regular players than we have had in 10th edition.

I use all my cool 40k models to play One Page Rules

I play it roughly every 2-3 weeks casually at an LGS. Wish it was more often, but finding time and displacing my army is a pain... I envy the card game players lol. We used to go for 2K points but for the least year and to help new players catch-up, we mostly just do 1K games.

Personally myself and my friend started at the tail end of WZ Nactmund / beginning of Nephilim and have been playing often enough in league games or random pick-up games via the LGS discord in Fairfield.

I have been in the hobby since rogue trader. In my area and groups here many have moved on to other games or hobbies. The constant change of rules, points, pricing and the like has had people gravitate away. I still keep tabs on it and try to keep up with the lore but definitely not as before in so many years past. The LGS don’t host anymore events and the 2 GW stores don’t have the attraction they use too.

Been playing for nearly 30 years, largely actively. Our group has moved to OPR due to 10th being a strange compromise between casual and competitive, it's too micromanaged and not very fun. 9th was, in my opinion, the most fun edition but having to write an entire A4 page of notes for strats, units and army abilities/modifiers for army lists was too much. GW actively hating their customers and turning towards ideology is also just not great to put money towards, so most've us have just stopped buying their stuff and are investing in 3D printing instead. Also the main scene in my country, in the capital, has moved from the massive main LGS to a community center, because most have stopped playing altogether. Is it dying? No, but the scene is changing and GW isn't keeping up, while they're trashing their setting.

Been playing since start 9th My eager for chasing the meta and buying / painting new armies has gone down I play 2 armies now with 1-2 games a week Really enjoy both the hobby and the gaming side Would say that my Warhammer have matured/settled as a hobby once I stopped meta chasing and buying all those new armies

I feel really bad for people who play 40k now and hadn't played anything prior to 8th edition. The game, lore and community isn't even remotely on the same level anymore.

I haven't been playing 40k for around 7 years. I play OPR instead. It's much better, faster, with alternate activation, more tactical depth, I can use the minis I want, none will be cancelled by GW. I 'm living my best life of hobbyist and gamer and you should try it too.

i've seen a decline with 10th edition. Even the hype of GTs and Majors have seemed less

1996 to 2019 when i quit and i won't be back. sold everyrhing in 2020.

Playing? no. That sounds like a nightmare. I just like to paint the miniatures.

I dropped 40k with the advent of 10th edition, because I disliked a lot of the changes from 9th to 10th and since I mostly played competitive games of 40k I think it was pretty obvious that not all factions would be anywhere close to an equal playing field at the start, so figured I'd stay out for 1 or 2 months then check back in and hope GW had ironed out the biggest balance issues and we'd start to see what direction they'd start taking the new codex books. I've been kinda checking back in whenever a major balance update or new codex for a faction that I'm interested in comes down, but so far I just keep comparing 10th edition to 9th edition rules and 10th edition comes out unfavorably pretty much every time to me, so I've stayed out. Probably going to be a while before I give 40k another go, as I also have big objections to GWs policy of just squeezing out every last dime out of their customers.

Cheers gents 😎

Lots of people are playing 40k. I see my local gamestore groups are always looking for games. On the topic of mission card decks... I hate them. I hate missions in general. I like good ol' days of two armies trying to destroy one another. None of this "scan servo skull" crap. I stopped playing 40k in 5th edition. I played a handful of games in 7th. I tried 3 games of 9th and it was the worst version of 40k ever (anyone who disagrees is under the age of 30 lol). Ive only played 3 games of 10th but i like it a lot better than 9th thats for sure. Star Wars Legions ... I have no idea why Warhammer based channels keep bringing it up. The whole "my dudes" issue with Star Wars is 100% on point. I have a few friends that wont stop trying to get me into it despite my repeated explinations as to why i will never play it. You couldnt pay me to play it. Star Wars is like cancer to me at this point.

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No, nobody is playing the most popular (by a huge margin) tabletop wargame that is, and has ever been.

I recently cashed out of MTG after 20 years with the intention of buying a few 2,000 point armies. However, after spending 2 weekends scouting every LGS within an hours drive, including an official Warhammer store, to build a final price list and meet the local play groups, I have decided against joining this hobby. It wasn't the price point that put me off, it was the people. Granted not everyone I talked to about getting into 40K was overtly hostile, but the vast majority were. My only experience up to this point with 40K was the lore, I didn't want to believe what I'd heard about the tabletop community, but my intro experience seemed to confirm all the negative, toxic, and to an extent racist traits attributed to the tabletop community (one guy I met literally had a KKK themed space marine chapter). I was genuinely shocked and promptly decided this wasn't the hobby for me.