AoS returns to Facebook officially.

[Path Walker]

In my 20+ years of hobby, I've never had nor witnessed any such thing as a random pick up game. Is it an american thing?

[Theik]

In my 20+ years of hobby, I've never had nor witnessed any such thing as a random pick up game. Is it an american thing?

You've never done a "I'd like to play a game, x points" post on your GW's facebook?

[Mr Mystery]

That's not a random pick-up. That's still an arranged game, even if you don't know who you're playing until you get to the shop.

[Theik]

That's not a random pick-up. That's still an arranged game, even if you don't know who you're playing until you get to the shop.

To me that's a pickup game as it's something I can arrange 30 minutes in advance. Showing up with a pile of miniatures is not a pickup game, it's just a game that will start 30 minutes later after people made their army.

[Mr Mystery]

Well posted in the wrong thread...

I don't see that as a pick-up game, because there's still an element of pre-arranging.

Pick-up to me is just walking into the shop, case in hand and taking your chances.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

oh s**t sorry MrMystery, had no idea you posted this one first - my bad!

[Mr Mystery]

No worries dude. Two peeps can post the same thing

[Erik Setzer]

Either that or they're really good at deleting and booting offenders before they get a chance to really start shrieking.

I really hope not... Better to give them a polite response and let them be noisy to the air than to appear as censoring. You'll get a lot more negative PR with the censorship.

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Pick-up to me is just walking into the shop, case in hand and taking your chances.

That's what I do... I go to the shop, and if someone's down for a game, I'll play them. Hardly ever pre-arrange games. Now, when I so agree to play someone, the conversation then turns to how we want to play the game (points, scenario, etc.). But that's still a "random pickup game."

[Mr Mystery]

Dunno dude - from my long experience in customer services, nothing encourages the rude, entitled and obnoxious more than learning their present victim just has to take it and still be polite...

[Haighus]

There is a limit to what is acceptable too- the Facebook pages have to cater to a variety of ages, so they will probably censor foul language at the very least.