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Hi guys,

Games Workshop has confirmed that there will be a price rise on 1st June. It will be on 277 of their products including most of the Battleforces. We have put the full list up on our homepage at http://www.darksphere.co.uk

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news....

After the price rise over in the US this was to be expected.

Ouch. Nearly a tenner on Battleforces...

Yay!

Oh, wait, you said "price rise" not "price cut due to the fact that we are using cheaper materials and manufacturing processes which allow us to pass the savings on to our very loyal yet incredibly abused customers"...

Bend over dude, sounds like GW has a lot more abuse to give yet.

Ouch ... Not nice.

Some real stingers in there.

I cannot fathom why they are increasing the prices of codexes. Surely these should be sold at cost (or possibly below) as they are enablers to customers buying other products?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing

I do not understand your English fun-money.
All I know is that judging by the increase in US/UK, Australia/New Zealand is going to be royally 'd.

I know it's kinda like having a pop at someone's religion, but you have to be mad to stick with them and take this price abuse. There are plenty of other systems out there that are just as good. Why carry on supporting them when they keep doing this to you?

The only way that you may stand some chance of ever get through to them is to stop buying from them and to point the younger generation at another system. I know for a fatc that most of the posters on this forum have enough forces to play with, so purchasing from GW isn't about "need", more about "want". Carry on play the game if you want, but stop buying from them, use the stuff you have.

This isn't going to happen so nothing will ever change.

From what I've heard from my FLGS store owner we (we being the Dutch) may be dodging a bullet.

Yikes. 10%-25% prices increases across the board. Except for a bunch of Space Marine stuff?

Not too much DE stuff going up, though I wonder If since scourges are the same price as warriors are if they will also be going up :( thanks for the heads up

GCMandrake wrote:I cannot fathom why they are increasing the prices of codexes. Surely these should be sold at cost (or possibly below) as they are enablers to customers buying other products?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing

GW probably wants us to believe that everything they make is sold at a loss.

Damn, this is a punch in the gut. And here was me, planning to get into the hobby again in summer! My exams are over 23rd June, and my parents would never let me buy anything that might distract me so close to my finals. Wel, I guess that's just life. Who knows, maybe we'll live to see a price CUT once in our lives. Maybe.

Can't wait for the Australian price increase.

I imagine it will be the final nail in the coffin for many Australian gamers.

There's only so much abuse you can take in such a short period of time.

cantustropus wrote:Damn, this is a punch in the gut. And here was me, planning to get into the hobby again in summer! My exams are over 23rd June, and my parents would never let me buy anything that might distract me so close to my finals. Wel, I guess that's just life. Who knows, maybe we'll live to see a price CUT once in our lives. Maybe.

We won´t.

But unless you´re dead set on GW, or have no independent FLSG around where you live, you might take a look into other games

ph34r wrote:Yikes. 10%-25% prices increases across the board. Except for a bunch of Space Marine stuff?

So that means likely a 25%-35% increase for OZ/NZ suckers/customers. That will recoup the losses for them buying them cheaper from the UK & US

Seriously, they can poke it. Consider me playing Colonial Sun instead now.

@Dark Sphere

Thanks guys for that friendly, informative update & total catalogue of the U.K. price ranges

Wait, shouldn't that have been GW's job



Thanks for the Chaos Battallion I bought off you guys a couple of weeks ago, you've given me a lot of modelling to do at a very reasonable price. If I ever buy any new GW product. I will come to you

The only way that you may stand some chance of ever getting through to them is to stop buying from them and to point the younger generation at another system. I know for a fatc that most of the posters on this forum have enough forces to play with, so purchasing from GW isn't about "need", more about "want". Carry on play the game if you want, but stop buying from them, use the stuff you have.

If a group are dedicated enough join together & start to generate enough negative press then it may be possible (most will simply walk away and not inform GW they are doing so or not keep on doing so until they get a reply - so it will make no difference to the board). In the mean time I plan on doing exactly what you've said (if they made the Wracks & Grotesques in plastic I would have still got a Dark Eldar army but they haven't) although will continue to demand a new Warhammer Quest (double standards - me? )

Good job I've got the Kings of War starter set & other bits knocking around

Well, at least everything's a round number now...

(Flashman recovers from initial shock)

...but holy feth, are they insane? I thought it was just metal/resin going up. And they're not particularly subtle price increases either. I am actually going to have say those immortal words, "I think that's it for me now."

When are you at darksphere implementing this?

They beat us because they care.

As an Aussie gamer, if someone had told me 2 years ago that doing a Forgeworld Death Korps army would actually work out CHEAPER than buying an equivalent sized imperial guard army from my local GW store, I would have said they were insane.

Time makes fools of us all I guess...

BrookM wrote:From what I've heard from my FLGS store owner we (we being the Dutch) may be dodging a bullet.

Are you sure?

I was already counting on the 19,50 Dark Eldar kits to become 22,50 like the Scourges, and kits like the Pistoliers, Chaos Knights, Ork Boyz etc to go up to about 22,50 also & the 40K tanks to all go to 39,- instead of 35,-.

TBD wrote:

BrookM wrote:From what I've heard from my FLGS store owner we (we being the Dutch) may be dodging a bullet.

Are you sure?

I was already counting on the 19,50 Dark Eldar kits to become 22,50 like the Scourges, and kits like the Pistoliers, Chaos Knights, Ork Boyz etc to go up to about 22,50 also & the 40K tanks to all go to 39,- instead of 35,-.

Pray tell, where? Not that I'm not believing you, it's just that my FLGS didn't hear any such thing.

Well there goes my plans to make an Empire army. I'd be ok if they actually included some new content in their kits to justify their price rises, but the fact that it's the same old stuff just tears it.

Wolfstan wrote: I know for a fatc that most of the posters on this forum have enough forces to play with, so purchasing from GW isn't about "need", more about "want". Carry on play the game if you want, but stop buying from them, use the stuff you have.

Ive said that a time or two myself recently. People get caught up in the collecting aspect of the hobby.

Im also a big advocate of games with creation rules. There are several out there that have them. You can build your army as you want...set the stats for troops, vehicles, weapons, etc. The fun part is some of them work for any era or genre. Take my favorite, Shockforce/Warengine. Its a skirmish game like 40k, but with the creation rules I can make stats for fantasy minis as well. So I can play a game with WHFB minis, but without the blocky rank unit organization, structure, and movement of WHFB.

This all makes sense now, closing off mail order to australia, but making it right.. not by bringing au prices down to normal levels but by bringing the rest of the world's prices up to theirs. Genious!

Snarky wrote:Well there goes my plans to make an Empire army. I'd be ok if they actually included some new content in their kits to justify their price rises, but the fact that it's the same old stuff just tears it.

With respect, why?

Build your Empire army, just not with GW figures.

There's a plethora of highly detailed, well made, cheaper late Medievil / Renaissance era figures that would more than fit the looks of an Empire army.

I honestly think that the best way to 'stick it' to GW is to not buy any of their stuff, but also to keep playing their games, but with other manufacturers figures.

This may not be doable if you only game at a GW store, but if you don't - go for it!

BrookM wrote:

TBD wrote:

BrookM wrote:From what I've heard from my FLGS store owner we (we being the Dutch) may be dodging a bullet.

Are you sure?

I was already counting on the 19,50 Dark Eldar kits to become 22,50 like the Scourges, and kits like the Pistoliers, Chaos Knights, Ork Boyz etc to go up to about 22,50 also & the 40K tanks to all go to 39,- instead of 35,-.

Pray tell, where? Not that I'm not believing you, it's just that my FLGS didn't hear any such thing.

Supposedly Germany is getting the raise, dus wij waarschijnlijk ook