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**Waaagh_Gonads**

By posting complaints about price rises, southern hemisphere embargos, smelly redshirts, a lack of news and rumours shoddy rules, lack of tourney support.... basically whatever you want to complain about on their facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial?sk=wall

Make sure you list the competition.... Mantic, Infinity, Warmachine, Hordes.

Bring on the shenanigans

Some Aussies have started from WargamerAU.

Lets spread the love!

**lord_blackfang**

You know they'll just close their FB account, right?

**Waaagh_Gonads**

GW will close their own account?

**filbert**

I may be a bit of a FB dunce but I can't seem to comment on that wall. Do you have to Like the page before you can comment?

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Yes you have to like it to comment.

**Katie Drake**

filbert wrote:I may be a bit of a FB dunce but I can't seem to comment on that wall. Do you have to Like the page before you can comment?

You 'like' the page and are then able to comment on the posts there.

**lord_blackfang**

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:GW will close their own account?

Yes, that's what I said.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Then trolling will annoy someone at GW.

Closing their facbook page would make them look like complete idiots (as opposed to their current standing of 'clownshoes'.

**SagesStone**

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:GW will close their own account?

Well after they get tired of deleting the messages like the other times it's obviously happened, yep.

Still be some fun while it lasts and might knock some sense into them.

**Capt. Rex**

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Yes you have to like it to comment.

There is something completely wrong with this...you have to LIKE the thing you HATE?

GW has royal {I cannot say this on this website} all over Australia.
Let's take them to court for extreme racism and trade embargo.

**Grimstonefire**

Sorry to be picky, but is this news or a rumour?

I was expecting something like 'let GW know you care, buy *this* model you don't need'

**Waaagh_Gonads**

I picked news as it is a new endeavour in response to GWs news release today.

**BrookM**

I doubt it will have much of an impact. They are oblivious to those comments for the most part.

**Erasoketa**

I can't understand how GW is able to do some stuff so great, and also able to take the worst decisions.

I think they choose everything rolling D6s. We've been lucky with the DE, I guess.

**lord_blackfang**

Erasoketa wrote:I can't understand how GW is able to do some stuff so great, and also able to take the worst decisions.

I think they choose everything rolling D6s. We've been lucky with the DE, I guess.

Eh, that would be because the people making models and the people making business decisions are not one and the same.

The models are constantly improving, a few odd stinkers aside. The business side has been consistently been absolutely slowed.

**Padre**

Just had a look at just one of the threads there...wow, they've managed to upset just about everyone this time!

Nice one GW.

Oh, and I would class this thread as "news" due to A) it's relevance to current events in the hobby which are news as of today, and B) it's probably news to a lot of people (like me) that they've got a facebook option to vent their disgust at GW.

Padre^.

**warboss**

At least they're efficient. They're trying to offend the largest amount of people in the shortest duration of time by raising prices, decreasing purchasing venue options, and pulling lots of figs for both determinate and indeterminate amounts of time. I marvel at their ability to shoot the entire foot off with a shotgun instead of pistol shooting individual toes off like most businesses would.

**SilverMK2**

I could be tempted to take part in this.

**Vimes**

Yeah, I´m wondering the whole time myself: How the heck could they believe that bringing all those news in rapid succession would be any good?

I have to admit, the price hike alone would not have bothered me that much. It would only have meant less GW minis bought per month, so my armies would grow slower.

The switch to resin/plastic mix, well I´m not that unhappy about that actually. Pretty indifferent either way.

The supposed new policy with unveiling new stuff only a week before release. Well, less hype and more time spend contemplating if I actually would need the model.

The whole southern hemisphere thing? Pretty bad move, but not affecting me directly.

All things together? Damn, that actually pissed me off, as far as I can be pissed of about plastic toys anyway. For now I´m done with buying new GW stuff. I´m more into PP right now anyway, and I have more than enough GW stuff left to paint.

**derek**

They're already hard at work deleting comments about playing other games and purchasing other companies products. My comment I left less than 20 minutes ago poofed.

**WarOne**

I love some of these comments, especially by this brilliant commentator here named Clinton Dowling:

http://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial/posts/228427153840259

"Unless this resin cures cancer, it will be hard to justify the price rises except as another GW price gouge."

**Erasoketa**

lord_blackfang wrote:
Erasoketa wrote:I can't understand how GW is able to do some stuff so great, and also able to take the worst decisions.

I think they choose everything rolling D6s. We've been lucky with the DE, I guess.

Eh, that would be because the people making models and the people making business decisions are not one and the same.

The models are constantly improving, a few odd stinkers aside. The business side has been consistently been absolutely slowed.

I disagree. The people who makes the models are responsible of how they look like, but I don't think they choose the pricing or if it's going to be a metal kit or a plastic kit (or resin now). For example, DE Cold Ones and Chaos Knights, are great kits with a nice price. Then we have the Vampire Count knights, as expensive as a battleforce. Someone in a desktop is rolling dices, or flipping coins, or something equally stupid and random.

**filbert**

WarOne wrote:I love some of these comments, especially by this brilliant commentator here named Clinton Dowling:

http://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial/posts/228427153840259

"Unless this resin cures cancer, it will be hard to justify the price rises except as another GW price gouge."

Mmmm, who is that young go-getter? I like the cut of his jib.

**Korraz**

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:GW will close their own account?

GW closed their own forums, when people started first to complain.
So, yeah.

I, for one, have no FB account and certainly won't create one for this.

**olympia**

Korraz wrote:
Waaagh_Gonads wrote:GW will close their own account?

GW closed their own forums, when people started first to complain.
So, yeah.

I, for one, have no FB account and certainly won't create one for this.

Korraz is right. If GW closed their own forums due to negative publicity they'll certainly have no problem leaving facebook (if they can figure out how to delete their account). I'm sure it's been said before, but as a multinational corporation they understand only profit.

**todeswind**

I wish GW the best of luck in figuring out how to delete a facebook account.

Cracked.com wrote:

Facebook keeps deleted accounts for only two weeks, but it makes sure that even getting to that stage is ridiculously complicated. If you search in your account settings, you'll see an option to "deactivate" your profile. Click on that, and Facebook will show you images of your friends and you saying "[name] will miss you."

Let's say you somehow make it past all the emotional blackmail and deactivate your account. Guess what? "Deactivating" isn't the same as deleting: All your information is still stored by Facebook indefinitely, and people can continue to tag you in pictures and send you invitations. The REAL delete button isn't in your settings at all -- it's hidden in a place that isn't so easily accessible. To reach it, you have to follow a needlessly complicated series of steps.
Even then, you're not out of the woods. As we mentioned, you have to wait two weeks for your profile to be erased permanently, but if you interact with Facebook in any way during those 14 days (including "Like" boxes and Facebook Connect), the account cancellation will be aborted. Let's say you use Facebook Connect on a website and you set it up to log you in automatically. As soon as you navigate into that website, Facebook will assume you regretted your decision and will reactivate your account.

Plus, Facebook pictures are also notoriously hard to delete. Try this: Upload a picture to Facebook and then copy the image's URL (that's the long address ending in .jpg). Now delete the image from your profile and paste the URL to your browser's address bar. The picture will still be there. If you check back in a month, chances are it still won't be gone.

A study by Cambridge University found out that out of 16 social networks, seven take longer than a month to delete your images. Think of the implications: Let's say an embarrassing picture somehow finds its way into your profile, possibly due to circumstances involving alcohol consumption. The next morning you rush to delete the picture, but if even one of your friends saw it and copied the URL, he'd be able to access, download and propagate the image for the next month.

Facebook admits that deleted content "may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time" adding that it "will not be available to others," but that's bs -- try that URL from before in a different computer, and it will still work. By contrast, sites such as Flickr and Twitter delete images instantly. And speaking of Twitter, it doesn't store your deleted tweets for any amount of time -- but the Library of Congress does. For, you know, posterity. It keeps a record of "ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006," in case future generations wonder what Snooki was having for lunch on Dec. 23, 2010.

**SagesStone**

They'll likely get their entire web team on it by next week.

"If we reverse the flow of megabytes maybe we'll overload the book of faces..."

**Cerebrium**

They'll just pay someone to do it for them.

**lunarman**

Do it, I'm campaigning like a mofo on there right now

**Lord Scythican**

Well I am not one to say I will quit because of all this, but eventually there will be a straw that breaks my camel's back.

I quit Magic the Gathering after years of BS like this with GW. When the most expensive staple cards for a Standard deck went from $25.00 to $90.00+, I figured it was time to jump ship. People still play the game despite the problems, but I have noticed a significant decline in the Friday Night Magic attendance and the new set prereleases. Eventually the game will quit due to a "decrease in sales".

"Nobody is buying our game anymore. Waaaaaa!"

I don't know why people who are in the money making business think it is a good idea to piss off its customers.

It sort of reminds me of the Legend of the Seeker TV show. People complained that they went too far away from the source material. Die hard fans of Terry Goodkind's series started to loathe the show and eventually stopped watching it. Eventually the show was canceled. Who didn't see that coming?

Now the Game of Thrones series is out and it is doing a good job of sticking with the source material, (the stuff that people like...). The show is already a 1000 times better than The Legend of the Seeker and it is not because of the boob shots.

You wanna keep your fans and keep the money rolling in, then you need to appeal to them, not piss them off.