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>Still funny that Space Marines 2 have diverse skins of weapons and options to change pieces of armor or even paintjobs despite the "GW is against customization"
GW isn't against customization in marines, also some of the stuff you see in SM2 are lifted from GW models directly.
Also it is already been established that GW is extremely retarded and schizophrenic when it comes to "what is allowed and what isn't allowed" type stuff.
Like they do it, but they do it at completely random and you are pretty much throwing dice if GW is ok with something or against it.
Like it's a known fact that the reason why warrior priest has a flail + shield instead of just a flail, is because at the time GW wasn't making any warrior priest models that had only flails, so they forced fatshark to make a flail and shield weapon for the game. Aka in this instance they MADE fatshark do more work and add content instead of removing/limiting it.

Other one where we know GW has interfered is the whole shirtless thing in Darktide. Originally characters could go shirtless, like you didn't equip any chest cosmetic. Only reason why this feature was removed because GW veto'd it for some reason, Catfish confirmed this herself on reddit.
Another more recent thing is the pic related with the Arbites, it's not at all coincidence that since the DLC released there has been 0 new arbites premium cosmetics.
Quickpaw didn't confirm it, but it is probably, most likely, GW cockblocking fatshark for some reason when it comes to the Arbites and its cosmetics.


I wouldn't be at all surprised if the reason why this shit is so fucking random is because GW internally has multiple groups that handle this IP stuff with 3rd party studios.
Like Fatshark has the IP team A while Saber Interactive got the IP team B. And then these groups have different views as to what is "OK" and "proper 40k"