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LordAba posted:Don't know about space marine, but they have that tyranid one. If they made the Party Nid shirt again I might Give GW Money.
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Avenging Dentist posted:Let's not forget that Total Warhammer did well enough to already get a sequel. That's less a sequel than it is a nakedly cynical backstreet mugging by the people who tried to get away with locking Chaos behind pre-orders.
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Leperflesh posted:I mean From what I can tell they're still doing the "remain profitable by squeezing costs no matter what it means" dance. That strategy can't go on forever. They've had a huge sales uptick but I feel like they'll go back to cutting as its the only mechanism they understand.
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TKIY posted:Hastings confirmed the mega Marines. The picture might not have been true but the rumor is. The dude has been wrong before and I'm comfortable making a bet on GW not replacing the army that makes up more than 50% of 40k sales. Space Marines aren't Bretonnians. TTerrible posted:From what I can tell they're still doing the "remain profitable by squeezing costs no matter what it means" dance. That strategy can't go on forever. They've had a huge sales uptick but I feel like they'll go back to cutting as its the only mechanism they understand. Where else can they possibly cut costs though, outside of closing their stores whole-hog? I think a lot of their current uptick has to do with a strong strategy of creating good-value bundles. 8th is gonna be real interesting in terms of its impact on sales.
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TheChirurgeon posted:Where else can they possibly cut costs though, outside of closing their stores whole-hog? I think a lot of their current uptick has to do with a strong strategy of creating good-value bundles. 8th is gonna be real interesting in terms of its impact on sales. I've no idea. They've locked themselves into a cycle of never dropping prices and never doing straight up sales. I've heard word that the start collecting boxes and the less well developed "boxed games" like Stormcloud Attack and the double Knight game were created purely to do low price miniature bundles without breaking that rule. After AoS, however bad or good 8th is I think it'll sell like crazy.
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TheChirurgeon posted:The dude has been wrong before and I'm comfortable making a bet on GW not replacing the army that makes up more than 50% of 40k sales. Space Marines aren't Bretonnians. Yeah, but replacing fantasy historical-esque human knights with golden armoured supermen that share nothing at all is not the same as replacement-by-stealth of space marines by creating new, but very similar, super special space marines, that functionally and thematically still work with the old ones.
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Also, cutting costs isn't a company's only option for increasing profit. They could increase revenue. And speaking of, GW did learn some good business practices over the last couple of years. They're far more likely to license out their properties, alive or dead, and a decent chunk of their revenue comes from that these days. It's not like squeezing blood from stones is the only approach to a successful business.
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TheChirurgeon posted:The dude has been wrong before and I'm comfortable making a bet on GW not replacing the army that makes up more than 50% of 40k sales. Space Marines aren't Bretonnians. I think enough people will build complete marine armies with these new models and have them count as normal marines if they can't make a complete army with the marines 2.0, that people will look at their now tiny marines and think "I wanna do that as well". GW might not say this aloud, but I bet that's their plan, to have all marine players exchange their old marine models for the new ones. TheChirurgeon posted:I think a lot of their current uptick has to do with a strong strategy of creating good-value bundles. 8th is gonna be real interesting in terms of its impact on sales. I think AoS increased sales because the people who left didn't buy that much to begin with and GW got a lot of new players by providing a simpler game without the need to build and paint literally 100 models. Time will tell if it's a sustainable strategy though.
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Not a viking posted:I think AoS increased sales because the people who left didn't buy that much to begin with and GW got a lot of new players by providing a simpler game without the need to build and paint literally 100 models. Time will tell if it's a sustainable strategy though. The thing to remember though is that these guys weren't not spending money on GW because they were simply done buying models or armies. They weren't spending money because their armies were under supported and 8th edition was a mess of a game. These are the same people who went on to support all the Mantic Kickstarters or to chase item cards in X-Wing or to buy the Oldworld video games or to spend a billion dollars on Kingdom Death or to create an internet fan edit of Warhammer and to support all the small time miniatures companies making models for it or to etc, etc.
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Pillows for you nerds to spunk on http://www.firestormgames.co.uk/wargames-miniatures/warhammer-40-000-merchandise
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Flipswitch posted:Pillows for you nerds to spunk on http://www.firestormgames.co.uk/wargames-miniatures/warhammer-40-000-merchandise And not a single xenos/not-space marines item in sight. And they wonder why people are getting sick of their poo poo. Edit: Also, wizards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKOErq1-okU Irate Tree fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:The thing to remember though is that these guys weren't not spending money on GW because they were simply done buying models or armies. They weren't spending money because their armies were under supported and 8th edition was a mess of a game. These are the same people who went on to support all the Mantic Kickstarters or to chase item cards in X-Wing or to buy the Oldworld video games or to spend a billion dollars on Kingdom Death or to create an internet fan edit of Warhammer and to support all the small time miniatures companies making models for it or to etc, etc. If Age of Sigmar didn't happen I would still be playing Fantasy and buying a woodelf army. Instead I'm converting my Lizardmen army into a Forces of Nature army for Kings of War, along with buying the Mantic Niads. Age of Sigmar means I'm never buying another GW army. I'll keep my Tyranids and Sisters (and Emp Child for 30k), but I was starting a mechanicus/necron army that I'm going to dump soon.
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Pierzak posted:Behold, the reason to play Infinity: I recognize way too many of those butts. Should I be worried deaththread?
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adhuin posted:I recognize way too many of those butts. Swiggity swooty
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adhuin posted:I recognize way too many of those butts. I want to sit the person who has to highlight all those butts down and hold an intervention.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:That's less a sequel than it is a nakedly cynical backstreet mugging by the people who tried to get away with locking Chaos behind pre-orders. Hot drat those are some bad and hilariously misinformed opinions.
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They're cynical fucks who release unforgivably buggy games for premium prices. Don't give Sega money.
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The total war warhammer game was advertised from the get-go as being a series of three games, and it's been nicely playable from day 1.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:They're cynical fucks who release unforgivably buggy games for premium prices. Total War Center is three doors down friendo.
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LordAbaddon posted:Total War Center is three doors down friendo. I thought this thread was for talking about poo poo companies guess we were wrong.
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ijyt posted:I thought this thread was for talking about poo poo companies guess we were wrong. It is for talking about poo poo companies, talking poo poo about good to mediocre companies and flying into a rage about historically inaccurate sandals is what Total War Center is for.
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gently caress am I going to have to give GW money so I can get a second Bull Centaur for my Chaos Dwarves?
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Atlas Hugged posted:gently caress am I going to have to give GW money so I can get a second Bull Centaur for my Chaos Dwarves? You don't have to, but you probably will
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:you don't have to do anything you don't want to do, atlas *shrugs*
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I've got this old Renegade Ogryn holding a DKOK soldier. I've drilled the hole into its arm and shoulder and finally got some superglue and wire cutters but I can't find any paperclips to attach them. I forgot how much effort building models was compared to just picking up a brush or turning on the compressor and painting them. 
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:you don't have to do anything you don't want to do, atlas A truly existential problem. I certainly don't need a whole team, just the one bull. Any alternatives?
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Atlas Hugged posted:A truly existential problem. Greebo and Meiko miniatures do decent enough bull centaurs (in a similiar style to the GW chaos dwarf look) gaspez and willy miniatures do bull centaurs as well but they're not the stupid hat kind. I'm going to be getting 2 from GW unless they're priced stupidly*, since I already have the rest of a chaos dwarf team from ebay. *stupidly for GW.
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Games workshop is less bad than last year but they're still bad.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:They're cynical fucks who release unforgivably buggy games for premium prices.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Don't you still play 40k? I have some bad news for you son. You are paying a premium price for an unforgivably buggy game if yes. I don't know... GORKAMORKA seems to play just fine.
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Leperflesh posted:https://www.gofundme.com/medical-bills-for-crash-the-cat Way to go goons! Here's hoping you find a good home for Crash
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TWLM just beat me to it but, yup, thanks to goons, and friends and family on Facebook, we blasted past our funding goal today. Less than three days and people have fully covered Crash the cat's medical expenses. I honestly thought maybe we'd raise $200. The donation that put us past our goal today was a $200 donation from a goon from this thread. I really don't know how to express how touched we are. We're in a position now where we won't have to make a hard decision about cutting off medical support due to the costs. Crash might make it or he might not... but if he doesn't make it, it won't be because we had to draw a line and say "no, we can't afford any more treatment." Please go on about your business, and remember GW is bad.
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stay safe kitty 
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