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I've not played in years (since the weird acetate-sheet vehicle hits - 2e?), and came across this thread... I always knew GW was over-priced-and-rising, but I hadn't realised... Wow. The main weird thing to me is that, if the company is being run (into the ground) by Suits, surely you'd expect them to be on top of buzzwords like 'internet' and 'reputation'? I can understand short-term planning, and raising the prices as high as you can, but the way GW seems to shy away from the internet reeks of grognard. The reason I found the death-thread was 'friend says he spends fridays chilling in the local GW painting'. Cool, I think, not been into that in years, lets see what SA says is up with it: DOOM, shanking customers for spare change, etc.  Think I might give that a miss. How can you fail to sell WAR+METAL+ANGST to teens?!I heard they don't play nirvana over the sound system either. Feb 9th, '15 e: GW Death Pool: Failing to sell angst to middle-class teens. petrol blue fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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petrol blue posted:
Make the hobby so expensive they can't buy into it?
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Apr 13, 2014 03:30
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Sure, but why would anyone do that?  e:  vs.   e: Spoilersfor the new noise marines. petrol blue fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Apr 13, 2014 03:33
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petrol blue posted:Sure, but why would anyone do that? The strategy is to make people think you have a monopoly on table top war games when you actually don't.
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Apr 13, 2014 03:40
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I'm not a wargamer, but gently caress it this should be good. Birthday Crew represent! April 1st, 2015 Burn baby, burn.
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Apr 13, 2014 05:25
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petrol blue posted:I've not played in years (since the weird acetate-sheet vehicle hits - 2e?) are you talking about the 1992 Vehicle Manual that used silhouettes of the various vehicles and bikes and you use the transparency (which had a crosshairs on it), rolled some dice to move it around and it told you where you hit? All the locations then had an armor value and I think their own damage chart. That was still technically Rogue Trader (1st edition) but it did come out right before 2nd edition, I think I used it exactly one time.
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Apr 13, 2014 05:46
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petrol blue posted:e: Spoilersfor the new noise marines. Japan - Even our death metal is hyper-adorable.
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Apr 13, 2014 14:37
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Lakedaimon posted:are you talking about the 1992 Vehicle Manual that used silhouettes of the various vehicles and bikes and you use the transparency (which had a crosshairs on it), rolled some dice to move it around and it told you where you hit? All the locations then had an armor value and I think their own damage chart. That was still technically Rogue Trader (1st edition) but it did come out right before 2nd edition, I think I used it exactly one time. That's the one! Even clouded by nostalgia, that was a terrible idea.
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Apr 13, 2014 15:58
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petrol blue posted:e: Spoilersfor the new noise marines. They would make better noise marines (Noise Sisters of Slaneesh?) than the current ones. Why did they lose the guitars when their defining feature is "kills enemies with noise"?
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Apr 13, 2014 16:36
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Randalor posted:They would make better noise marines (Noise Sisters of Slaneesh?) than the current ones. Why did they lose the guitars when their defining feature is "kills enemies with noise"? Not grim dark enough. Remember when the original 40k miniatures were based off genres of music? That's far too silly.
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Apr 13, 2014 19:51
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Randalor posted:They would make better noise marines (Noise Sisters of Slaneesh?) than the current ones. Why did they lose the guitars when their defining feature is "kills enemies with noise"? WUBWUB
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Apr 14, 2014 01:55
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petrol blue posted:
Only Babymetal could save GW. Only Babymetal.
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Apr 14, 2014 04:30
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http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/04/40k-6th-edition-is-being-pulled.html?m=1 I bid all new entrants and betters greetings!
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Apr 29, 2014 00:32
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Rulebook Heavily posted:http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/04/40k-6th-edition-is-being-pulled.html?m=1 To add for anyone who reads this thread but not the main 40K one, it has been corroborated for us by poster serious gaylord that 7E is coming, so it's not just inference/rumorsite bullshit.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:34
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JerryLee posted:To add for anyone who reads this thread but not the main 40K one, it has been corroborated for us by poster serious gaylord that 7E is coming, so it's not just inference/rumorsite bullshit. This edition is only two years old, AFAIK? That's an accelerated turn-around, to say the least.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:36
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:This edition is only two years old, AFAIK? That's an accelerated turn-around, to say the least. Normal turnaround before this was ~4 years, so this is very accelerated. The Orks codex is now the oldest, at 2 Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 00:55
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If 7th edition is due out relatively soon (May 24th?) then boy howdy do I not expect it to sell since I doubt it'd be a total overhaul and rather a touchup which I can't fathom will sell great.
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Apr 29, 2014 01:01
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Icon Of Sin posted:Normal turnaround before this was ~4 years, so this is very accelerated. The Orks codex is now the oldest, at 3 editions behind the main rulebook. It was really nice seeing all of the old books revamped but if they're gonna start puking out $80 rulebooks every two years we might as well just pack it in now.
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Apr 29, 2014 01:02
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It's a shame that I just caught the buying-minis bug whenever I talk to older players.
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Apr 29, 2014 01:44
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Barudak posted:If 7th edition is due out relatively soon (May 24th?) then boy howdy do I not expect it to sell since I doubt it'd be a total overhaul and rather a touchup which I can't fathom will sell great. Every edition since third has been a touchup. Every Fantasy edition since sixth has been a touchup. GW doesn't radically alter the game between editions because that would upset their codex/army book model.
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Apr 29, 2014 02:06
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September 30th, 2015 This is the day when the galaxy will burn! *edit* Birthday pool of course Shrieking Muppet fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 02:12
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There's no way it is not bought out in the next year I think, this years numbers are supposedly abysmal.
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Apr 29, 2014 02:19
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Hollismason posted:I'll be joining the birthday pool with Oct. 9th 2015. There's no way it is not bought out in the next year I think, this years numbers are supposedly abysmal. But but but they're about to release a new book and that's an airtight strategy especially when you've already alienated your customer base into largely not buying the book one way or another.
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Apr 29, 2014 02:21
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PeterWeller posted:Every edition since third has been a touchup. Every Fantasy edition since sixth has been a touchup. GW doesn't radically alter the game between editions anymore because that would upset their codex/army book model. My wife is still annoyed they made Daemon/Beastmen armies illegal in 6th; she was in the process of building a Beastmen of Slaanesh list when GW decided 'Nope, can't have that anymore.'
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Apr 29, 2014 02:23
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Little_wh0re posted:GW will not die in the timeframe listed has anyone else bet that yet? Just going to quote this for posterity. 
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Apr 29, 2014 02:25
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Someone spoiled the entire Wood Elf release because GW loaded all of the images onto the website 5 days before they were supposed to come out and 2 people from Warseer just guessed at the product codes.
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Apr 29, 2014 03:05
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Gonna bet May 7th, 2015. Birthday, of course. It'll actually be shortly after Q4 2015 but gently caress if I know when that is.
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Apr 29, 2014 03:46
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Business Gorillas posted:Someone spoiled the entire Wood Elf release because GW loaded all of the images onto the website 5 days before they were supposed to come out and 2 people from Warseer just guessed at the product codes. Hahaha, so that's what happened.
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Apr 29, 2014 05:16
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Totally coincidental that this new edition goes on sale a month before the full year report is due, the full year report everyone is predicting to be even more dire reading than the half year report. One final cash grab to turn the numbers around, is totally what this isn't, not at all.
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Apr 29, 2014 07:41
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NTRabbit posted:Totally coincidental that this new edition goes on sale a month before the full year report is due, the full year report everyone is predicting to be even more dire reading than the half year report. One final cash grab to turn the numbers around, is totally what this isn't, not at all. I went on Dakka, Warseer, and a couple other places, just to see what people outside of SA might think about this news. It was pretty much the exact mix of people going "told ya so", "GW is fine, everything is fine" handwaving, and Bitcoin-esque "this could actually be good for GW in general/40k in particular because  " that I was expecting. 
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Apr 29, 2014 07:53
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I went on Dakka, Warseer, and a couple other places, just to see what people outside of SA might think about this news. It was pretty much the exact mix of people going "told ya so", "GW is fine, everything is fine" handwaving, and Bitcoin-esque "this could actually be good for GW in general/40k in particular because I'm honestly surprised by that. I would have expected the internet at large to be in the grasp of an even more histrionic meltdown than us. Not that it isn't relatively more justified when dealing with GW.
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Apr 29, 2014 08:02
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JerryLee posted:I'm honestly surprised by that. I would have expected the internet at large to be in the grasp of an even more histrionic meltdown than us. Not that it isn't relatively more justified when dealing with GW. The news just came out on the 28th, didn't it? Maybe it hasn't hit some people yet. The big thing in the Dakka thread (IIRC) was a couple of guys arguing about how GW will/won't fudge the books by releasing 7th edition prior to their next financial report.
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Apr 29, 2014 08:08
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Wow, genuinely shocked to hear the 7th ed 40k rumour... so er.. that's a bit soon isn't it? 6th ed was the first release of a new edition of 40k that I didn't bother to buy and I've not really looked back since. So many other companies out there and so many other games that better suit my gaming budget and my lack of time to paint (Malifaux is high on the list.. small skirmish sized games with interesting 'one off' minis to paint? Yes please) So we'll see whereabouts this goes..
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July 31 2015
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Apr 29, 2014 13:57
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JerryLee posted:I'm honestly surprised by that. I would have expected the internet at large to be in the grasp of an even more histrionic meltdown than us. Not that it isn't relatively more justified when dealing with GW. That's what you get when you have an entire customer base entrenched in Stockholm Syndrome and denialism.
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Apr 30, 2014 00:52
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What's all this about another earnings report? Is GW bound for some more bad news and trouble in a couple months?
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Apr 30, 2014 02:27
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On the contrary, they should be in solid earnings territory after the last few months releases and a whole new edition for 40k a month before fiscal year's end. (they're doing this by upping the release schedule and dropping a new edition a month before fiscal years end.)
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Apr 30, 2014 02:37
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koreban posted:On the contrary, they should be in solid earnings territory after the last few months releases and a whole new edition for 40k a month before fiscal year's end. So when does this blow up in their faces and people stop buying products with abusive pricing and releases? Next quarter? My birthday?
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Apr 30, 2014 02:54
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stoutfish posted:So when does this blow up in their faces and people stop buying products with abusive pricing and releases? My understanding is that they're already experiencing diminishing returns from their business model and that's exactly why we're seeing this  from corporate trying to prop the numbers up.
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Short term profits rule everything around me.
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