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

[Mr Mystery]

Which is why it's most likely utter, utter bollocks.

I think it's a safe assumption that a given die for plastic models is capable of casting up enough to at the very least pay for it's creation to that point (including sculpting, concept etc). Otherwise, nobody would be producing plastic, because it would be the very definition of uneconomical.

[GrauGeist]

Total load of mega-jazz-wank.

...

Also, wonder if OP typed that out with his left hand?

If you're going to cry like a baby, how can you type at all?


Regardless, you're getting Squatted, like it or not. So best you eat a lot of fatty food, because GW doesn't use lube.

[daboarder]

actually funny to see how posters sudden;y understand now the boot is on the other foot

Well GG GW, wont be ever investing in fantasy I dont think.


as to choices in the wake of the chapterhouse case, they had plenty, fixing the keye underlying flaws that the company suffers from as opposed to just another ****ty band-aid attempt would have been the better choice

[GrauGeist]

Yup, it's pretty funny how mad some people are getting.

[daboarder]

Yup, it's pretty funny how mad some people are getting.

I don't blame them, I can completely understand how and why they feel the way they do

[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.