WFB 9E "explodes", goes Full Grimdark (tm)

[GrauGeist]

Sure, but realistically, they all should have seen it coming. It's just amusing that they're reacting so badly to the very behaviors that they themselves enabled, for a situation that they themselves created. The only difference is that someone finally spells out the consequences of their actions.

[daboarder]

Sure, but realistically, they all should have seen it coming. It's just amusing that they're reacting so badly to the very behaviors that they themselves enabled, for a situation that they themselves created. The only difference is that someone finally spells out the consequences of their actions.

yup, thats it exactly, we are at the final realisation of the poem.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[GrauGeist]

First they came for the Squats, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Squat.
Then they came for the Dogs of War, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Dog of War.
Then they came for the Chaos Dwarves, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Chaos Dwarf.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[Erik Setzer]

Sure, but realistically, they all should have seen it coming. It's just amusing that they're reacting so badly to the very behaviors that they themselves enabled, for a situation that they themselves created. The only difference is that someone finally spells out the consequences of their actions.

Um... no. I shouldn't "see it coming" that a company would just take a big steaming dump all over a lot of customers and invalidate thousands of dollars spent on products. Specialist Games were a heartbreak, but they were "side games." This is one of the Big Two. I see people playing lots of fantasy, and with a lot of models and armies that are being listed as being thrown out. Those people are going to be pushed aside, and then told, "Hey, if you want to keep playing, just drop a few hundred dollars on a new army. Oh, we totally swear we won't make it obsolete down the line like we just did with a huge chunk of the line. Honest!"

It's stupid. Sheer stupidity. The ideas don't make any sense from a marketing standpoint. Maybe if you were a new company. Or if you're really desperate and need to try some extreme insane new method of sales hoping it will spark something because you can't figure out the obvious fixes to your flawed marketing concepts.

[daboarder]

Um... no. I shouldn't "see it coming" that a company would just take a big steaming dump all over a lot of customers and invalidate thousands of dollars spent on products. Specialist Games were a heartbreak, but they were "side games." This is one of the Big Two. I see people playing lots of fantasy, and with a lot of models and armies that are being listed as being thrown out. Those people are going to be pushed aside, and then told, "Hey, if you want to keep playing, just drop a few hundred dollars on a new army. Oh, we totally swear we won't make it obsolete down the line like we just did with a huge chunk of the line. Honest!"

It's stupid. Sheer stupidity. The ideas don't make any sense from a marketing standpoint. Maybe if you were a new company. Or if you're really desperate and need to try some extreme insane new method of sales hoping it will spark something because you can't figure out the obvious fixes to your flawed marketing concepts.

It is stupid Erik, What Geist means is that this kind of response is par for the course for a company that views its consumers with contempt and gloats about them buying "whatever they sell" without asking what the consumer wants. Its the perfect illustration of why GW's problems are entirely the way the board decides their business decisions and not the product or consumers.

[lobster-overlord]

And of course the Brets get crapped on once again...

Oh well, off to ebay with the lot. ;-)
John M>meant to be funny, not a hater...