Re: Games workshop price hike iminent

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Aug 25, 2008; 8:18pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Games-workshop-price-hike-iminent-tp781092p782386.html

At a guess I'd say they are just going to step-up the price for each price code letter that will require a minimum amount of effort on their part. As far as the rules go I imagine they will put the prices up £2 a book. Personally I think GW produce the nicest looking rulebooks on the market, %90 of the art work in the most recent books is brand new and made specifically for the tome in question, not that I mind them reusing old art work.

Plastics are definitely getting worse, the quality is going down as the price is going up. Nearly all of the  current generation of plastics are single pose figures and only multi-part in the sense that you have to assemble them. There is next to no variation in detail from one figure to another while this is ok for organized and uniformed units of High Elves it doesn't work at all for a rabble of night goblins. Which makes it ironic that the High Elf regiment is one of the best examples of multi-part multi-pose plastics, while the current Night Goblins are a line after line of barely distinguishable single-pose miniatures that mostly come in 2 or 3 parts  (and not I'm talk about the Battle For Skull Pass miniatures). And I still can't figure out why they are so bloody small either, the new Plastic Night Goblins are smaller than the plastic Gnoblars (which are also horrendously bad figures). In fact quite a few of the newer plastics are rather small, including the new skeletons which are now back to being the same size as the original Skeleton Hoard miniatures!

The new plastics lack detail as well and some have horrendously misshapen hands and fingers that only look right directly head on or from the back. The Gnobalrs are a prime example of this and yet the single-piece HeroQuest miniatures never had this trouble. All this is down to corner cutting and laziness in the design process. It seems they sculpt one miniature scan it copy and paste it 8 to 10 times, make some minor changes to each copy and then add a few extras for the command figures. The new Night Goblins, Dire Wolves, Dwarfs, Ghouls, Ogres, Skeletons, Black Orcs, Blood Letters, Chaos Warriors and Dark Elves all seem to have been made in this manor. Notice how all the cloaks on the Chaos Warriors and Dark Elves all flow in exactly the same way as all the others on the same sprue? Notice how the same 4 heads are repeated over and over on a single Ghoul sprue? Notice how all the Dire Wolfs look almost exactly the same save for a few minor details? Notice how the Black Orcs and Blood Letters only have 2 static poses each? Also what happen to all the nice extras we used to get on the spures? Your lucky to get a spare head on the newer sprues ...

I think the wost thing about the price increases is that GW them self don't really notice how it affects the average gamer what with their staff discounts. It's around this sort of time that a dedicated GW staff member will bring up the 'Tale of 4 Gamers' articles, in the older runs of the articles the 4 gamers were given £50 a month to spend on miniatures – for a start I don't know anyone who spends that much a month on miniatures (including my self) and it also doesn't account for buying extra tools and paints you might need for a new project. Secondly the new run of the articles doesn't even keep track of money spend, only 'points' accumulated and just seems to be an advert for whatever Mailorder has on offer.