Games Workshop: "we can't be bothered to entertain you, even if you've paid already"

[Wildeybeast]

Why would they close WW? It costs them virtually nothing to run. Other than ticketed events, they don't have any staff manning place and I'm sure Bugmans and the store pay for themselves, as well as covering the limited overheads of heating, lighting and cleaning the gaming hall. The main cost was the initial investment, and that was done years ago. And what would they do with it if they did close it? It's not like they are moving sites.

[Kaptain Badrukk]

It's a consolidation move.
Store sales of WW event tickets are being replaced with the WW E-Ticket.
At the same time they remove the trip part, meaning GW has lower liabilities to worry about, and staffing obviously.
Then, just like tournaments and every other WW hosted event, people will just make their own way.
It sucks if you're a young'un, but from the WW store's perspective it prevents a coachload of kids with vouchers from their local store rocking up and taking over.

[Mr Mystery]

Having attended, and run, and indeed organised Invasion trips in the past, here's a little former insider perspective...

1. You need to agree a date with your Brother Stores.

2. You then need to book that date with WW.

3. Having found out someone else has booked that date, go back to step 1 (no, really!) Rinse and repeat a couple of times.

4. That done, book a coach, and ensure it knows it needs to do a round robin pickup and drop off from the various stores.

5. Put up posters, and start booking.

6a. The event is overbooked. Panic and flail madly about how you're going to do the coach thing

6b. The event is underbooked! Panic and flail madly about whether or not that's the whole thing scuppered

7. All set? Off we go.

8. Bugger. The staff member running the event has somehow managed to not be on the coach when it's departed. Get coach to pull over whilst staffer legs it up the road.

9. SODDING TRAFFIC.

10. SODDING TRAFFIC THIS IS BEYOND A JOKE

11. Try not to lamp the smartarsed neckbeard who reckons everything GW does is wrong.

12. Finally, we're at WW world.

13. Conduct the games in the time remaining, rather than the 8ish hours originally intended, thanks to the traffic.

14. Ensure all the customers are herded back onto the coach.

15. Ensure the staff member running the event, who nicked off as soon as you arrived and couldn't be found when needed, interrupting your gaming pleasure as you have to grab the reins is actually on the coach.

16. Find staff member sitting up the back, with no intention of doing any actual work. Encourage him to sit up front. Be met with blank stare of incomprehension.

17. Minor aneurysm

18. Try not to lamp the sweaty neckbeard again as he singularly fails to grasp the concept that the SODDING TRAFFIC is quite beyond the staff member's control, and indeed, other than the usual accounting, can't really be accounted for where someone has managed to cause a pile up, blocking all three lanes.

19. Further minor aneurysm

20. Neckbeard still whining on and on and on and on and on. Have another slightly more severe aneurysm as you resist the urge to hoof him off the coach and let him make his own way home.

21. Everyone back. Find staff member meant to be running the coach has just sort of wandered off.

22. Do his job for him for one last time that day, doing a final headcount

23. Cry.

Yep.

[Wildeybeast]

That sounds like organising a school trip, but worse as I can at least tell the kids off (not that they listen).