Games Workshop
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Games Workshop used to be good. See Beakie, Rogue Trader and Talisman.
They started out making shit that you could use in other publishers games, and printing American RPGs up in jolly olde Angleterre. Soon they made a wargame and a few board games and people began to take them seriously as something other than a magazine publisher.
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It is a well kept secret that the Board of Directors of GW are in the same situation as the God-Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40,000. Their defiled corpse-bodies lay dormant upon their Publishing Thrones, maintaining only the smallest semblance of life due to the constant influx of money. It is unknown what would happen if the Board of Directors were allowed to truly die. Some say Games Workshop would collapse in on itself, ceasing the production of all that is good and expensive. Perhaps Games Workshop would be free from the necrotic collar of the Directors' irresistible will, and the company would be free to explore new areas, such as advancing the story of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, or reviving older "specialist" games like Space Hulk and Blood Bowl.
The Fall of Warhammer
It's finally fucking happened. As of May 11th, 2011, Games-Workshop's new terms of use restricts sales of all of their products to the European Union, although there are a couple of countries (such as Norway and Switzerland) that are geographically within Europe but not in the EU that can still be sold to. Obviously, this means that GW's english-speaking customers outside the EU - Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the US, as well as customers in other countries who are fans of their products can no longer obtain them through FLGS or online wholesalers.
So enjoy spending 30-80 dollars on shipping for your order, which can no longer have free shipping for bulk, since you're now ordering international - if you can even order the fucking things at all in your region. Oh, and they spiked the prices another 10-15% for most models.
Additionally, all metal models are being discontinued, to be replaced with more expensive Resin kits. Unlike the Polystyrene kits, the Resin kits are loaded with carcinogens. And they are actually cheaper to produce than the pewter models. And they break easily so that all the little ten year old Smurf players have to buy new ones when they snap them in half. So essentially, Games Workshop not only ruined the quality of their models, they jacked up the prices and made it nearly impossible for anyone outside EU to obtain it. Kinda like from fine French wine to your corner-store cheap beer.....and the beer is more expensive than the wine. Yes, we're also wondering how much more retarded GW can get.
Because Games-Workshop fucking hates you. About the only way this could be made worse is if GW decided to forcefully shove a RAPEX onto your dick each and every time you placed an order, and even that's debatable.
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add moar shit
LOWER THEIR FUCKING PRICES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH ABOUT THAT...HAAHAHA FAGGOT
Stop trying to monopolise things like terrain and game boards. It was a lot more fun and interesting when GW encouraged people to make their own stuff from scratch, but now they seem to think everyone has to have a Citadel Realm of Battle board and use only the plastic terrain kits that are sold at GW. This pisses off all us proper gamers who like to make things that look unique and orginal. Also, they really should stop selling those stupidly overpriced movement trays for warhammer, theyre cheaper and easier to make using sheets of plasticard and trimmed down sprues!
UPDATE OLDER ARMIES LIKE NECRONS AND SISTERS OF BATTLE INSTEAD OF JUST CONSTANTLY UPDATING ALL THE SPACE MARINES FOR CHRISSAKE- YOU'D HAVE MORE PEOPLE BUYING MORE ARMIES MAKING YOU MORE WEALTHY. I MEAN GODDAMN, HOW MANY FLAVORS OF SMURFS CAN PEOPLE POSSIBLY WANT? INCREASINGLY FEW IF THE SALES FIGURES HAVE BEEN ANY FUCKING INDICATION. MAYBE GAMES-WORKSHOP JUST HATES MONEY.
Cut the production costs and therefore prices of their products. This is a good business decision as it would increase volume while retaining profit margins. At the likely expense of model quality, anyway.
MOAR PLASTIC MODELS!!!!
KICK MATT WARD IN THE BALLS AND KICK HIM HARD
In cunclusion, FUCK YOU GAMES WORKSHOP!!!