Games Workshop has restated its commitment to inclusion and diversity, following complaints of an alleged Neo-Nazi player at a Spanish 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer 40,000 tournament.
The player in question was spotted at the , hosted by retailer and events centre Invasion Talavera and local club Cobrador del Waaaagh! in Talavera d♓e la Reina, Toledo. According to attendees at the event, the player identified themselves as "Austrian Painter" (a thinly-veiled reference to Hitler), and photographs show a player openly wearing Nazi iconography. One icon shows a Sun Cross (closely related to another hate symbol, the ) in front of the red arrowဣs that most commonly represent , a Spanish fascist movement. The other is an extended Swastika symbol.
Despite the presence of a Neo Nazi, players were upset to find the player wasn't, at the very least, asked to leave. According to , event organisers refused to remove the player from the event and even forced players who refused to play against them to concede, resulting in a victory for the offending player.
In the aftermath of the GT Talavera event, many Warhammer community members discussed the prevalence of far-right and Nazi players in the community, such as popular Warhammer blog des🎐cribed their presence as "an elephant in the room since the nineties".
While it didn't directly address Invasion Talavera, Games Workshop has now released a aimed directly at hate groups in the Warhammer community: "We won't let you participate. We don't want your money. We don't want you in the Warhammer community".
In the statement, Games Workshop discusses how real-world hate groups "sometimes seek to claim intellectual properties for their own enjoyment", in particular singling out Warhammer 40K's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Imperium of Man, an in-game empire whose Roman-inspired aesthetic has in the past to such far-right groups. Games Workshop made clear that "The Imperium of Man is satirical… it is not an aspirational state… it's a monstrous civilisation, and its monstrousness is plain for all to see".
More concretely, Games Workshop 💖had some practical words for event organisers and prospect💮ive attendees: "If you come to a Games Workshop event or store and behave to the contrary, including wearing the symbols of real-world hate groups, you will be asked to leave".
