Re: Price Rises, Cost-cutting rip-off and a Trade embargo - the 3 pronged anal rape of GWs customers

Posted by meangreenstompa on May 21, 2011; 12:15pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Price-Rises-Cost-cutting-rip-off-and-a-Trade-embargo-the-3-pronged-anal-rape-of-GWs-customers-tp6378676p6389303.html

I have finally moved from Bristol to the US to be with my wife full time.

She loves the tyranid range and I convinced her to take up 40k and she's been enjoying it. Around us, we found 3 retired players, I started to work on getting them back into the hobby.

They were all ready, all three.

Now this price hike. Now this for my wife who wants a squad of hive guard, a squad of zoanthropes, a hive tyrant, tyrant guard and two venomthropes...

All of which will be greatly increased in price despite the manufacturing costs greatly reducing in the 'metal to resin bait and switch'. And now?!?! The plastics have gone up, a trio of warriors will cost £25?!?

Who can their target audience be now? I cannot fathom that their analysts are still targeting parents money via young kids. If I were a parent, I'd be buying a game system for the spod instead and saving myself hundreds as well as avoiding the stinking creche that is a GW store.

So, understand this, I was going to buy a whole dark eldar army, a big one, an Empire army (a MASSIVE one with forgeworld stuff) and a wood elf army, all within the next year to two. Instead I am going to take up other systems and bring my wife and those retired players along with me.

Not because the price has gone beyond my capacity to afford it but because the price is now far above my perceived worth of the miniatures.

So, a Malifaux force, a Warmachine force and a Hordes force, perhaps infinity as well just because the minis are so beautiful. I'll still save a fortune on what I would have spent on GW stuff, perhaps I'll spend it on a big fishtank for the lounge and keep my bloodpressure down after reading about the price hike antics of GW yet to come...