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Games Workshop: Reluctant Monopoly or Benevolent Oligopoly?

68 min • 17 maj 2024

Every podcast has to do the "is GW a monopoly episode." This is ours. BLUF: They Are not a monopoly because they do not want to be one, but they do not have a problem being the standard setting body for miniature wargaming.

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