The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Hupp n at em]

Actually, I think "muhahahahahahahahahha" may be the official motto of GW these days. It may even be their mission statement

Now that's the spirit! Tow that company line! 

[Tactalvanic]

Actually, I think "muhahahahahahahahahha" may be the official motto of GW these days. It may even be their mission statement

I am awaiting the arrival of the "Cease and Desist" litigation documentation, for infringing on their IP... 

[Leftblank]

I wrote a blog with updates about GW's financials.
Business consultant Richard Beddard is worried about GW's latest financial results and Priestley thinks he was more or less singlehandedly responsible for the success of Games Workshop. Full blog here: http://amsterdam6shooters.nl/node/595

Future is bleak for GW. Slow demise expected.

[Derek H]

"Financial analist" ?

[grant]

"Financial analist" ?

He's the butt of all the company jokes!

[Leftblank]

You mean that I made a spellyng mystake? Sorri. Corrected :-)

[Tactalvanic]

nah it was fine the way it was.

Noted last night when I was browsing the interwebs that Steam had a GW games "sale".

Then I looked at the games listed, the amount of discount etc, and kinda could not be bothered.

Especially as some have not even been released yet.

Which is good as I promised meself not to buy new computer games this year at all - so almost got through the first month already.

[Elbows]

There are a couple of good GW video games out there, but most are a bit pants.

And half of the ones on Steam are mobile/cellphone games.  The original Blood Bowl is still excellent (heard disparaging things about the sequel) and the original Space Hulk is good (the second is broken and the producer went out of business, so no fix in sight).  I'll be honest...Mordheim is a huge mess and I'm very disappointed in it.  WHQ is a cellphone game and has very mixed reviews.  I can't be bothered with the Space Marine games in general.

Vermintide looks neat..ish..

[FionaWhite]

Vermintide looks neat..ish..

Don't do that unless you've got a friend or several to play with.
The bots in there are still less capable than whatever tools you've in your garden shed, and the community is... vile, to put it nicely, and mostly focuses on grinding one particular map only.

[Elbows]

Bah too bad.  The only other one to interest me is Battlefleet Gothic - not out till March.  Heard an interview with the developer and it sounded neat...we'll see.

[beefcake]

I bought Kill team last night. It was a couple of bucks and I had a bunch of credit from selling off my steam trading cards so it was almost "free".
I am looking forward to total war though.

[Timbor]

Here is something different:

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/01/bombshell-gw-moving-into-toymodel-stores.html

GW is repackaging some of their 40k kits to sell in toy stores.  The kits come in coloured plastic (the base colour of the model), with the more simple miniatures like their starter set figures.  Also supposed to include brushes and paint.  For a price point comparable to other model toy kits.  I think it is a good idea, and could work well to hook the young'uns on GW stuff before they see the price tag of the actual miniatures line 

[rebelyell2006]

Here is something different:

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/01/bombshell-gw-moving-into-toymodel-stores.html

GW is repackaging some of their 40k kits to sell in toy stores.  The kits come in coloured plastic (the base colour of the model), with the more simple miniatures like their starter set figures.  Also supposed to include brushes and paint.  For a price point comparable to other model toy kits.  I think it is a good idea, and could work well to hook the young'uns on GW stuff before they see the price tag of the actual miniatures line  

Are we talking Toys R Us toy stores?  Or are they pushing for generic hobby stores like Hobby Lobby or Michaels?  That would really increase their exposure since there are Hobby Lobby's and Michaels in every town in the USA.  If they release some Imperial Guard kits at a lower price and at a coupon-heavy store like Michaels, I might have to return to Warhammer 40K.

[Elbows]

I'm curious how they'll tackle this.  Larger stores/chains won't put up with GW's control over internet sales etc.  This could be a back route into some of those kits.  As mentioned above, if a normal model shop carries them and decide to discount them heavily - or sell them online at discount, this could be interesting.

I think it's a smart move for them - and I think  the coloured plastic is not a terrible idea.

PS: At suggested $39 MSRP for the larger kits, it looks like you get some terrain a handful of Nobz, and a helicopter --- and the box art seems to indicate a handful of marines and a dreadnought?  Not a bad deal if you end up finding these are 25% off.  I'd guess these are mostly older/simple kits, maybe even some from previous starter boxes (snap together marines etc?)

Curious to see where this goes, and it'd be nice if this is an indication of a new approach by GW.  This coupled with the return of specialist games and those new reasonably priced starter boxes are all good omens.

[Modhail]

I'm actually kinda shocked to see GW even considering gaining sales by lowering prices and cooperating with other retailers...  That's a full 180 on their policy for the last two decades or so.
Maybe there is a way out of the madness for them yet. (Still maintaining a "seeing is believing" attitude though.)