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2012/03/04 05:49:51
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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I made to 40 mile journey to the first games workshop store in the state of florida earlier this evening, and I must say that I had the best time in a hobby store since I've been in this hobby. The store owner greeted me at the door with a "welcome to games workshop" and a smile. I wandered around the store for about 15-20 minutes and then he approached me, asking if I needed help finding anything or if I had any questions. He was not pushy or overbearing in the least, I had heard that the "blue shirts" will try to sell you everything in the store, but he was very nice and after i said "no thanks, I'm just checking out the 40K stuff" he told me that if I need anything to just let him know. This is a great example of how to run a business, mind you that this is a privately owned GW store, so it might not have the same sales pressures that a "corporate" store might have.
Anyway, I was there mainly to check out the 40K tourny that was going on, see I've been painting minis for years, but because I live 50 miles from ANY store that caters to gamers, I never really had a chance to play the game. I've always wanted to, so I thought that watching a few games and asking a few questions here and there would help me out. The players at the tables were extremely welcoming, friendly, and no-one had (gamer stench) lol. I told them up front that I don't want to be a pest by asking a bunch of noob questions, but they didn't mind at all. They were even going out of their way to vocalize everything that was going on, just for my benefit. Awesome! I was only planning on staying for about an hour or so, but I didn't end up leaving the store until closing time! 
The store itself is not huge or anything, it's fairly cozy with 5 full size tables set up, each table was nicely done and there was more than enough scenery, buildings, walls, etc. to go around. What really caught my eye was the amount of stock that the store had. The walls were absolutly covered in warhammer, lord of the rings, and 40K models. A MUCH better selection than ANY other store that I've been in. In fact, Sci-fi City, about 10 miles farther down the road, is probably 10 times or more the size, but this GW store had more stock and just about every mini in the entire line. Not to mention a full section dedicated to just scenery.  A full line of GW paints, tools, 2 fully stocked display cases with painted minis, and I even picked up the newest copy of white dwarf while I was there.
All in all, I can say that I will definitely be back when I finish my blood angels army, without a doubt, the best hobby experience, EVER!
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/03/04 05:56:07
Subject: Re:My first games workshop adventure.
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When I was younger and just started 40k I went to GW for the first time and treated it like it was Disney world, so I know how you feel! I've been to the (now closed) store in Manchester CT, the one in NYC and also popped into Boston and all three were very catering and well done. I think GW must keep super high standards internally.
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2012/03/04 06:03:17
Subject: Re:My first games workshop adventure.
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aleck wrote:When I was younger and just started 40k I went to GW for the first time and treated it like it was Disney world, so I know how you feel! I've been to the (now closed) store in Manchester CT, the one in NYC and also popped into Boston and all three were very catering and well done. I think GW must keep super high standards internally.
I've heard so many horror storys on here and other sites about the GW staff, that I was actually expecting to be fighting off salespeople as it was a used car lot. lol
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/03/04 06:41:29
Subject: Re:My first games workshop adventure.
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I'm glad to hear that your first trip to a GW store was great! The first one I went to was really small and had almost everything I needed. Its shame the stores don't carry the metal models anymore.
Is this the GW store that recently opened in FL? I've been meaning to go, but its a very very long drive from where I live.
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2012/03/04 06:45:10
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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Seems to be a bit of a theme, I've been into many store right across Oz and always get a very welcome reception.
They seem to pick their shop managers with care.
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2012/03/04 06:48:58
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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Sounds like you had a great experience! Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I've never had any major problems even at GW corporate owned store. I think people on the internet just like to bitch and moan. Obviously, all humans are different, and, of course I've run into the occasional goofball employee at a GW store, but for the most part they are really decent guys.
In fact, the last time I was at the GW Battle Bunker, I heard the store manager REFUSE a major sale!!! This guy was totally new and ready to drop $700 on an army and he just told the manager to tell him what to buy. The manager said "I would be doing you a disservice by doing that. Buy some stuff, get a few games in, and see what units you like and don't like and go from there".
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2012/03/04 06:52:38
Subject: Re:My first games workshop adventure.
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Red Comet wrote:I'm glad to hear that your first trip to a GW store was great! The first one I went to was really small and had almost everything I needed. Its shame the stores don't carry the metal models anymore.
Is this the GW store that recently opened in FL? I've been meaning to go, but its a very very long drive from where I live.
Yea, It's the one that opened about 6-8 months ago in Apopka. I know long drives, it took me over an hour just to get there. lol
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/03/04 06:53:46
Subject: Re:My first games workshop adventure.
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sub-zero wrote:Red Comet wrote:I'm glad to hear that your first trip to a GW store was great! The first one I went to was really small and had almost everything I needed. Its shame the stores don't carry the metal models anymore.
Is this the GW store that recently opened in FL? I've been meaning to go, but its a very very long drive from where I live.
Yea, It's the one that opened about 6-8 months ago in Apopka. I know long drives, it took me over an hour just to get there. lol
An hour is nothing for me to go to a gaming store, but 4 hours is a whole other deal.  Its good to know that any trip to visit that GW is well worth it. I may have to make the trip some time soon.
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2012/03/04 07:00:51
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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Oh, it can be so hit and miss. One cool manager for a few months and then a major pin-head the next year.
It's not GW; it's the register monkey. Just like anywhere else, except McDonalds, where you fall into conformity or get drummed out.
I know the hit & miss from about 5 years of Glendale, Calif's GW store. One or two cool managers, and two douches. Many of the floor guys ran the gamut of cool to tool.
Still, sub-zero, I'm glad the experience was cool. I was annoyed to drive 40 or so to the LA Battle Bunker and have a douche manager make a crucial and incorrect call on an early game, that has stuck in my memory.
As far as I know, that happy (bodily orifice) is no longer employed by GW and has dissappeared from the local scene, unheard of for at least a year.
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2012/03/04 07:24:16
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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Brothererekose wrote:Oh, it can be so hit and miss. One cool manager for a few months and then a major pin-head the next year.
It's not GW; it's the register monkey. Just like anywhere else, except McDonalds, where you fall into conformity or get drummed out.
I know the hit & miss from about 5 years of Glendale, Calif's GW store. One or two cool managers, and two douches. Many of the floor guys ran the gamut of cool to tool.
Still, sub-zero, I'm glad the experience was cool. I was annoyed to drive 40 or so to the LA Battle Bunker and have a douche manager make a crucial and incorrect call on an early game, that has stuck in my memory.
As far as I know, that happy (bodily orifice) is no longer employed by GW and has dissappeared from the local scene, unheard of for at least a year.
I know what you mean, there are a couple of "those" guys at the "other" store, just down the road. lol I had a blast though, I never thought that one could learn so much from just watching a couple games being played.I guess it's true what they say, "It's the people that make the difference"
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/03/04 15:41:40
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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You bought White Dwarf?
Most companies don't make you pay for their catalogue...
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2012/03/04 17:27:02
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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sub-zero wrote:
All in all, I can say that I will definitely be back when I finish my blood angels army, without a doubt, the best hobby experience, EVER!
Great story, Sub-zero. Glad you had a great time, man! 
Henners91 wrote:You bought White Dwarf?
Most companies don't make you pay for their catalogue...
Henners, can I call you henners? Good. You see that first post? It's from a guy that is super excited about his first trip to a GW.
Now, look down to your post. You see it? Good. I see a total dick trying to crap all over some other guys thread about how much fun he had at his first trip to GW. How about you log off and go jog, or try to find a woman, or anything constructive.
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2012/03/04 17:42:08
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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I dunno. I've always had great experiances in both the GW stores in my city. The only thing i've ever had the store managers push on me is their thursday night 40k game night  . My girlfriend even went in with her ork warboss because she couldn't get the metal arms to say glued on and they pinned the arms for her (might have been because they've never seen a girl in there that wasn't borred out of her mind folowing her boyfriend )
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2012/03/04 17:51:37
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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VoxDei wrote:I dunno. I've always had great experiances in both the GW stores in my city. The only thing i've ever had the store managers push on me is their thursday night 40k game night . My girlfriend even went in with her ork warboss because she couldn't get the metal arms to say glued on and they pinned the arms for her (might have been because they've never seen a girl in there that wasn't borred out of her mind folowing her boyfriend )
Not necessarly because she was a girl.
As a young male the manager actually helped me out assembling my first Chaos Lord, including pinning it for me.
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Thanrial wrote:Your not going to wake up, pick up the paper (or search the news) and see a headline:
"40K PLAYER SHOOTS 100 PEOPLE SHOUTING "DAKKA"" .
infinite_array wrote:junk wrote:infinite_array wrote:There's absolutely no way this thread won't descend into Monty Python jokes until being locked. Ni!
HELP! HELP! The OP is being repressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
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2012/03/04 17:54:25
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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kronk wrote:sub-zero wrote:
All in all, I can say that I will definitely be back when I finish my blood angels army, without a doubt, the best hobby experience, EVER!
Great story, Sub-zero. Glad you had a great time, man!
Henners91 wrote:You bought White Dwarf?
Most companies don't make you pay for their catalogue...
Henners, can I call you henners? Good. You see that first post? It's from a guy that is super excited about his first trip to a GW.
Now, look down to your post. You see it? Good. I see a total dick trying to crap all over some other guys thread about how much fun he had at his first trip to GW. How about you log off and go jog, or try to find a woman, or anything constructive.
Wow, I seriously laughed my a$$ off at this response. kudos, well played sir. lol
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/03/04 18:41:45
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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sub-zero wrote:kronk wrote:sub-zero wrote:
All in all, I can say that I will definitely be back when I finish my blood angels army, without a doubt, the best hobby experience, EVER!
Great story, Sub-zero. Glad you had a great time, man!
Henners91 wrote:You bought White Dwarf?
Most companies don't make you pay for their catalogue...
Henners, can I call you henners? Good. You see that first post? It's from a guy that is super excited about his first trip to a GW.
Now, look down to your post. You see it? Good. I see a total dick trying to crap all over some other guys thread about how much fun he had at his first trip to GW. How about you log off and go jog, or try to find a woman, or anything constructive.
Wow, I seriously laughed my a$$ off at this response. kudos, well played sir. lol
I see Kronk is in a good mood today. Man must have gotten his beer and wings since yesterday morning. (joke from another thread)
On topic, I've had a pleasant time both times I went to GW. I'll go to one every chance I can, until I have a bad experience (then I'll just avoid the bad one).
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2012/03/04 21:51:11
Subject: My first games workshop adventure.
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I was beginnig to think I was alone with my good GW store, it's nice to see that I'm not.
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