wallacer:
Willmark:
Really hasn’t effected me since I’m not currently collecting any armies. Well Chaos Dwarfs but most of what I have left is metal 4th edition hobgoblins.
Grimstonefire:
Despite my sig… my warhammer purchasing is entirely from online discounters. So whilst this is annoying for me, it’s not the end of the world entirely.
Interestingly, I find that the more the prices go up, the closer I look at the quality of the models in a new army and how close they are to my vision of how they should be. Any more work than superficial stuff and I won’t collect them at all.
For the most part, the only armies that come close that I find particularly interesting are currently skaven and dwarfs. If they redo Orcs to be more savage looking then I may think about collecting them, but otherwise to me the price rise doesn’t mean a whole lot.
I feel sorry though for those intending to collect multiple armies up to 2500pts etc.
Hashut’s Blessing:
Well, it looks like I’m completely out of buying non-LotR models from Games Workshop. I can officially no longer justify the expenditure for the models. Even at online discounters, 20% off of the current amount felt fairly expensive.
Oh well, GW will eventually learn that pushing wallets away will reduce revenue.
Time of Madness:
The usual yearly increase. Not as bad as I was expecting it to be.
Doesn’t really effect me at the moment as I only have 1 army (chaos dwarfs) and I make purchases entirely online.
To be fair though this is a hobby and is still cheaper then many other hobbies out there. I’ve been playing now for over 15 years and won’t be stopping anytime soon (no matter how high the prices go).
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wallacer:
On the bright side the pound and the euro are tanking at the moment, so the favourable exchange rate may help to offset the price rise somewhat.
Loki:
Not really surprised they are putting up prices again, its only going to drive people away, maybe one day they will learn
Pyro Stick:
Im so glad i stopped buying new boxes of stuff years ago. But this has really put me off ever buying anything again, apart from off of ebay. Which is a shame because im actually looking forward to the new Tomb Kings and was probably going to buy some of them.
Hashut’s Blessing:
On the bright side the pound and the euro are tanking at the moment, so the favourable exchange rate may help to offset the price rise somewhat.That'd be nice for those not in Britain or using the Euro ;) But not us, lol :D
wallacer
Not really surprised they are putting up prices again, its only going to drive people away, maybe one day they will learnAlready have driven at least one away, lol :P
Loki
Baggronor:
Mighty Christ, £20 for 10 Grave Guard?! :o £2 each for plastics!? That’s more expensive than my metal Dwarves lol.
On the bright side the pound and the euro are tanking at the moment, so the favourable exchange rate may help to offset the price rise somewhat.That’s not a bright side
Rather glad that I only buy about 3 figures from GW a year, although it might hurt my DEs…
Thorne:
sighs
Like I say most of the time, Gamesworkshop make nice games, You dont need however to buy there models. You can buy Elves and Undead from mantic. Soon Dwarves will come which also come in at a nice price from Em4 and Em4 also make nice dwarves which often after some greenstuff work many red shirts cant tell the difference. Em4 also make nice hobgoblin style orcs too. Looking for Imperial guard Victrix make nice hard plastic Neopleonics and Perry make very cool American civil war and have a wonderfull collection of cavalry. Vannilla marrines I have hundreds of already but then space rangers can make a cool alternative for those on a budget. With the likelyhood of many online discount stores having no problems and doing faster bussiness with the increacing prices Ebay will be the place ot go rather than spending crazy money on GW products. Look at it another way Baggronor will be doing very swift bussiness for those in the know. I just cant understand how they can justify it.
Time of Madness:
*sighs*Because people keep buying the models and will continue to keep buying from them.
I just cant understand how they can justify it.
Thorne
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Henroth:
I have the impression of which GW tries to go on from the board games to the video games, meanwhile, it raises the products that it has now us the collectors extract the money to us. :mad
slev:
Rule books going up for the first time in six years, sort of expected TBH, given how book pricing works.
The other items going up my one measly price-point I can cope with. Hardly a large increase per model for most things and not much of an increase on an army. An extra 20 mins work at minimum wage to buy one box of figures is hardly a chore in my books.
Thorne:
Very interesting, Damn space crusade on the AMIGA shakes fist Nice theory Henroth indeed a £30 videogame is infinately more playable than the odd 2-3 hour game of 40k, Sucsessor to Warhammer Dark Omens on the PS1 would be nice but still it will be great for other miniture producers whom I should immagine will feel the benifit of GW’s over inflating price.
Xander:
Death, Taxes and GW Price Increases.
Hashut’s Blessing:
*sighs*It's all well and good to say that, but if you wish to attend tournies (I don't) or dislike the other figures or only like GW figures or find that non-GW figures don't fit into your army or a myriad of other possible reasons, then GW's price rise is pushing you out of the game as well as out of buying their models. Personally, I have very few non-GW models and even those seem largely out of place in my armies to me, despite only getting ones that I think are the closest fit, etc. It's a case of preference over necessity. Having options doesn't mean that all of the options are desirable, if they were, then this wouldn't have been a problem for anybody.
Like I say most of the time, Gamesworkshop make nice games, You dont need however to buy there models.
Thorne
Because people keep buying the models and will continue to keep buying from them.Precisely why they do it. If people don't buy from them, then they will eventually be forced to stop raising prices (even if it's because they go bust).
Time of Madness
Rule books going up for the first time in six years, sort of expected TBH, given how book pricing works.The rulebook price IS expected and, I guess at 528 pages (which I would presume is somewhat more than last time), it could even be justified.
{snip}An extra 20 mins work at minimum wage to buy one box of figures is hardly a chore in my books.
slev
That 20mins of extra work at minimum wage is still an extra 20mins of money and not everybody has been able to get a job or even claim benefits in the current economic climate (in which case, they probably shouldn't be buying models, lol), but those 20mins of work could go towards a meal or too of shopping instead, which I would personally prefer my money to go on (extra food instead of same amount of model). Regardless, it doesn't change a thing.
We have to live with it or lump it and I'm lumping it, lol.
The Stormchild:
If only GW realized that if they lowered their prices they may get more people buying from them.
Oh well.
TheVoice:
Black Tree Design do decent models at huge discounts. If ever I were in the mood to collect a new vanilla army I’d go there.
Ellimist:
Black Tree’s models are of 4th or 5th edition quality at best, not really a replacement for most of the modern minis.