Not really the point I was making, Penty...
I got into this stuff in 1998. Several games had come out and there were game dev things in WD for Battlefleet Gothic and Mordheim. It was an exciting time with some fun experimentation going on. I'm never going to play WFB. Too many models, not enough time (or money). If they're going to have a skirmish game that I can play in store then that'd be great. As it stands the local GW is worthless to me - I don't have a full 40K army built up again and so gaming there is a non-starter. Warhammer is pretty much the only fantasy setting I can get even slightly interested in and as such having somewhere I could field a small Skaven force, or Lizardmen, or something else, sounds fun.
It's also interesting to see GW doing things slightly differently rather than just staying the course and hoping for the best.