The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Momotaro]

Financials are out - pretty static.  Sales down, profits up as they didn't blow £4 million on a shitty website this year.  AoS too late to be included.

One-man shops are apparently a "proven" success, but they will be trialling multi-staff shops in certain big-city hotspots (innovation!!!).

Major rebranding - shops will become "Warhammer" shops.

Looking at a major redevelopment/reassessment of all lines.  RRP won't be reduced (quality, man!), but they're thinking about more low-cost items.

[Tactalvanic]

Financials are out - pretty static.  Sales down, profits up as they didn't blow £4 million on a shitty website this year.  AoS too late to be included.

One-man shops are apparently a "proven" success, but they will be trialling multi-staff shops in certain big-city hotspots (innovation!!!).

Major rebranding - shops will become "Warhammer" shops.

Looking at a major redevelopment/reassessment of all lines.  RRP won't be reduced (quality, man!), but they're thinking about more low-cost items.

Linky possible?

Low Cost

Surely not?

Assume thats relative low cost in comparison to their "normal" cost

Do you think they have found some old stuff under the sofa next to 2017 edition of Space Hulk?

Too late I stopped being lazy and found it...

[Momotaro]

Reading back over the Chapterhouse case and the clusterfuck GW made of it, one thing that caught my eye again is that they have fewer IP rights over toys (especially design rights over OOP ones) than they do over collectors items.

That may be why they insist they're a miniatures company rather than a games company, why they're changing names and why they're pushing the game element to the back.

If you ever though that GW was a well-organised company, read over the case again.  It's hilarious.

[Momotaro]

http://investor.games-workshop.com/

[Arlequín]

What I am not getting is where are all the cheap models for sale from all the people who are ragequitting?

I had hoped to snag up some cheap stuff in the fallout of Age of Sigmar.

Because they are not only rage quitting, but burning their dudez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=493&v=plUPJ0inN4c

Beware loud scremo sound track for half its length or so (it's too loud and I can't understand the words).  

What a waste of a perfectly good piece of board though.  

... and suddenly AoS has merged into Warhammer 10K.

The next revision will be Warhammer 20K and will merge with the backwards trend from Warhammer 40K to 30K to 20K and they can then just market one system.

I think that is the actual plan at the root... without the exaggeration. I actually like the idea, just not enough to actually go out and buy the game. For GW it's actually imaginative... sort of.

Low Cost

Surely not?

Sure, five figures for the price of ten is a steal.  

[Tactalvanic]

Well..

I have not got through it all but. Read it there first

We are (UK) leaving Europe and each region is going its independant way after all.

Wow

They are well connected to know that aren't they? - Guess that's why they are a in the business of selling Fantasy...

That aside I think I best get hold of my MP and insist they get a head start on

A. rebuiling Hadrian's wall, higher of course..
B. Get the boarder fences up between ENGLAND and those other Johnny foreigners in Wales and.... Cornwall.

Or is it just more GW Fantasy (IP)?

Slow day, I think I will carry on reading now for more gems of Fantasy and Fiction.

[Momotaro]

A. rebuiling Hadrian's wall, higher of course..

Why do you hate the Northumbrians so much??? 

[Tactalvanic]

Why do you hate the Northumbrians so much??? 

I don't !

I am trying to give them more jobs !!!

Mainly in Brick making and brick laying of course, but its good solid work!!!!!

 

[Cubs]

Wales isn't interested in going solo ... we're not so green as we're cabbage-lookin' to think that's a good idea. Besides, try to keep us out and we'll just invade, rename England 'Wales East' and force you to learn our language. Even the threat of that should be enough.

[Westfalia Chris]

Besides, try to keep us out and we'll just invade, rename England 'Wales East' and force you to learn our language. Even the threat of that should be enough.

But think of the boon this would be to railway-station-sign makers! It would keep their children fed for years to come!

[Tactalvanic]

Wales isn't interested in going solo ... we're not so green as we're cabbage-lookin' to think that's a good idea. Besides, try to keep us out and we'll just invade, rename England 'Wales East' and force you to learn our language. Even the threat of that should be enough.

But GW says you are, so it must be so, surely that's not more GW IP Fantasy?

Its in their former not quite gone bosses pre-amble ramble.

Mind you I was a little alarmed by their mention of the GW academy, their training and how radically they are doing something or other. Wonder whether it should be raised with the UK authorities regards radicalization of young or easily influenced job seekers...

I am too easily influenced 

Welsh tube/train station names, sounds fun! Cannot understand announcements normally already, that will just top things off nicely.

[Modhail]

I usually only read the Kirby Pre-ramble...  "We're losing sales, we're losing distributors, but everything is going to be fine, because we make teeny plastic puppets!"
Just lovely how he slides in a few digs at the customer base, really appreciate that.
He missed a beat though, by not calling it the Great International Master Plan.

Typical how setbacks are always the result of external influences though.

[Barbarian]

My favorite part :

" In July 2015, we relaunched Warhammer Fantasy to broad acclaim ‘Warhammer: Age of Sigmar’. We are so proud of this new range of miniatures that we have commissioned an additional statue at our HQ to complement our Space Marine, which has delighted our customers and staff for the last 17 years. You have to see it to believe it, you will not be disappointed."

You have to see it to believe it, you will not be disappointed, indeed.

[Atheling]

I gave up on GW a long time ago..... I won't even go into their shops!

If I need any of their washes and whatever they are calling the paint I often use for a base colour on bases I just mail order them from somewhere else other than GW!

It's just too much "Suits you sir!" for me to take  

And as Red Cloud used to say, "That is all I have to say"

Darrell.

[Arlequín]

You have to see it to believe it, you will not be disappointed, indeed.

The downside is that before long you won't be able to say to a local taxi driver "take me to the Reichstag" and end up at GW. I wonder what they will call it in future?