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 Yonan wrote:
Welcome to one of the many reasons players are abandoning GW in droves. Higher prices than competitors for average models in inferior materials does not a satisfied customer make.

You forgot piss poor balance in their games compared to companies that actually try, and don't just write rules to sell plastic.

warhammer 40k mmo. If I can drive an ork trukk into the back of a space marine dread and explode in a fireball of epic, I can die happy!

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Alcibiades wrote:
I don't think wargaming is really that expensive (well, depends on your income and other expenditures). In my drinking days, I could blow a hundred bucks a night in bars easily. That's an expensive hobby.


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24 pounds. Isn't that about 40 dollars? So 7-8 Long Island Ice Teas.


Wargaming isn't Tau Sniper Drones.

To put it in perspective, the Sniper Drone boxed set costs £24. You can get the starter set of X-Wing for £26 -- a complete game with rules, counters and pre-painted models.

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 DarknessEternal wrote:

Even if they netted 20 after material costs on each one it would still take ~5000 sales to pay for the molds alone. And that left zero money to pay for people to design the thing, make the thing, ship the thing, store the thing, package the thing, write rules for the thing, market the thing, etc.


GW doesn't do marketing, remember?

They probably priced it to make their money back in the first 3 months of production runs, as that would have likely constituted the bulk of their initial sales. They just never lowered the cost afterwards.

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blaktoof wrote:
theres kits like this out there.

Ork mek gun 47 dollars, buys you a model that costs 18-30 pts.

wow!

you can field a unit of up to 5.

so 235 usd for a full unit, costs you somewhere between 90-150 pts in game.


Scratch-build them for free. It's not that hard.
   
 
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