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Complete and utter horsegak. I think a few of the GW marketing folks deserve a good flogging for turning supposed news into another piss-poor attempt to shove more current range advertising down our throats.

Commander Endova wrote:Complete and utter horsegak. I think a few of the GW marketing folks deserve a good flogging for turning supposed news into another piss-poor attempt to shove more current range advertising down our throats.

Bingo. It doesn't help that there's no reliable way to show that it's working/not working outside of buying or not buying the products later on.

So after patiently waiting for word of new BA models I clicked on the GW link at all it said was, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." Ovaltine? WTF?

ubermosher wrote:So after patiently waiting for word of new BA models I clicked on the GW link at all it said was, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." Ovaltine? WTF?

Win.

Brother SRM wrote:I think GW runs on nerd tears.

Well at least that made me chuckle - the announcement itself was a joke, but not the good kind.

if you're not happy with this, email GW customer service and complain. while tom is right that a small handful of emails may get binned, if they recieve enough then it might actually get brought up at the next meeting.

custserv@games-workshop.com

Do not bloody email them. It will "not get brought up at the next meeting", as the Customer Service email address bins anything that isn't directly related to an issue with an order or models you've purchased.

I do so love it when you tell everyone what they can and cannot do.

And I do so love it when you fail to realize I'm trying to give people advice that will result in an actual...you know, result.
Rather than just an automated reply or a form letter about how "your opinion matters to us".

If you want your voice heard, don't clog up the Customer Service email address with a falsely titled email about your "order missing parts" then launch into a tirade about how this newsletter ate your baby or whatever overlydramatic way you want to express your disappointment over this content. It'll result in the email getting binned, and likely them just putting your email address in their spamfilter.

You want to show them you're upset? Compose a bloody letter. Use a postage stamp, an envelope, and your words.
Handwritten letters mailed in get even more attention than just typing out a letter and mailing it off.

Kanluwen wrote:Do not bloody email them. It will "not get brought up at the next meeting", as the Customer Service email address bins anything that isn't directly related to an issue with an order or models you've purchased.

Just for that, I'm emailing them.

This is the second time in as many months they pulled this stunt. It's ridiculous, show one fething model at least. Hell, even like a silhouette of a model or something, anything but "Gotcha! Come back in Feb but buy this now!"

It is a little frustrating.....but what does everyone expect when they have seen it all before?

Fgt/10 confirmed Furioso, Storm Raven and Battleforce, with Furioso having all options including Librarian.

And he finds the following battleforce contents "plausible":
10 Tactical Marines, 5 Assault, 5 Deathwing, 1 Rhino.

Deathwing or Deathcompany?

Aw, hell, those crunchies all taste the same

Clearly Deathwing.

We got some Angels of Death 2nd edition action boyz!!

Safe to say "Death Company".

Kroothawk wrote:Fgt/10 confirmed Furioso, Storm Raven and Battleforce, with Furioso having all options including Librarian.

And he finds the following battleforce contents "plausible":
10 Tactical Marines, 5 Assault, 5 Deathwing, 1 Rhino.

Pretty lame to through tatical in a BA set IMO. 10 ASSault, 5 DC, 1 Rhino 5 scouts or tatical better, heck even a dread would be better.

Kroothawk wrote:Fgt/10 confirmed Furioso, Storm Raven and Battleforce, with Furioso having all options including Librarian.

And he finds the following battleforce contents "plausible":
10 Tactical Marines, 5 Assault, 5 Deathwing, 1 Rhino.

Might buy that. Looks like a good buy for $90. And that dread kit will be sweet.

I'm never going to see a tyrannofex model.

Ozymandias wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Do not bloody email them. It will "not get brought up at the next meeting", as the Customer Service email address bins anything that isn't directly related to an issue with an order or models you've purchased.

Just for that, I'm emailing them.

This is the second time in as many months they pulled this stunt. It's ridiculous, show one fething model at least. Hell, even like a silhouette of a model or something, anything but "Gotcha! Come back in Feb but buy this now!"

You've obviously never heard of "teasers" as they relate to advertising for upcoming releases.

Does it really take a rocket scientist to look at the current few holes in the BA range and deduce that the 2nd wave will be Storm Raven,Librarian/Furioso Dreadnaught,and a Battleforce? What else is there in that range that's lacking kits? Are they going to slide plastic Thunderwolf Cavalry or a Tervigon/Tyrannofex kit in the Blood Angels 2nd wave? People get mad when GW tells us nothing,so they tell us something the equivalent of a quarter in advance,and we're suppossed to be PO'd because they didn't completely spell what was being released out for us?

Personally,I'm excited for the news. Not so much because it's another BA release,but because it's essentially a BA 2nd Wave/GK presale release with the Storm Raven and Libby Dread.

Whatever1 wrote:

Ozymandias wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Do not bloody email them. It will "not get brought up at the next meeting", as the Customer Service email address bins anything that isn't directly related to an issue with an order or models you've purchased.

Just for that, I'm emailing them.

This is the second time in as many months they pulled this stunt. It's ridiculous, show one fething model at least. Hell, even like a silhouette of a model or something, anything but "Gotcha! Come back in Feb but buy this now!"

You've obviously never heard of "teasers" as they relate to advertising for upcoming releases.

Does it really take a rocket scientist to look at the current few holes in the BA range and deduce that the 2nd wave will be Storm Raven,Librarian/Furioso Dreadnaught,and a Battleforce? What else is there in that range that's lacking kits? Are they going to slide plastic Thunderwolf Cavalry or a Tervigon/Tyrannofex kit in the Blood Angels 2nd wave? People get mad when GW tells us nothing,so they tell us something the equivalent of a quarter in advance,and we're suppossed to be PO'd because they didn't completely spell what was being released out for us?

Personally,I'm excited for the news. Not so much because it's another BA release,but because it's essentially a BA 2nd Wave/GK presale release with the Storm Raven and Libby Dread.

You are missing the point. To be a teaser, you have to see something. They said that they were going to announce stuff, and all it did was go to a page with current models.

Am I the only one who thinks that Stormraven model could've been MUCH cooler? Seems like a C+ job to me.

Kanluwen wrote:Do not bloody email them. It will "not get brought up at the next meeting", as the Customer Service email address bins anything that isn't directly related to an issue with an order or models you've purchased.

dude, do you work at GW customer service part time that you're *SO* worried about a few emails complaining about this or are you just that desperate to save their percieved honor that you'll apologize/defend them to the extend that you'll actively encourage people to not email them with their complaints? no one will write an actual letter as people in 2010 are simply too lazy. we'd be lucky if a few people even bothered to click the email link i provided even before your faux british admonishment not to.

Kroothawk wrote:Fgt/10 confirmed Furioso, Storm Raven and Battleforce, with Furioso having all options including Librarian.

And he finds the following battleforce contents "plausible":
10 Tactical Marines, 5 Assault, 5 Deathwing, 1 Rhino.

What a piece of gak battleforce......Here's a space marine battleforce, but you can have these death company guys instead of the scouts and the random marines....


I understand that the bits are nice...But really? They couldn't even give you a baal predator instead of a rhino?

Whatever1 wrote:You've obviously never heard of "teasers" as they relate to advertising for upcoming releases.

We got a teaser – the newsletter. That newsletter told us to await the announcement tomorrow for more details. The ‘more details’ was a regurgitation of the teaser, and advertising for existing products. If you cannot see why people might be annoyed at that, then you’re not thinking clearly and/or you don’t understand what teasers are.

Whatever1 wrote:Does it really take a rocket scientist to look at the current few holes in the BA range and deduce that the 2nd wave will be Storm Raven,Librarian/Furioso Dreadnaught,and a Battleforce?

Irrelevant. They sent a teaser saying that there’d be an announcement... and then provided no announcement. What we can figure out via rumour and intelligent guessing is completely separate to that.

Whatever1 wrote:... but because it's essentially a BA 2nd Wave/GK presale release with the Storm Raven and Libby Dread.

Except we don’t know that it’s that. I mean, sure, we can make a virtually undeniable educated guess that it will be those items, but we still don’t actually know. This was (another) piss-poor attempt by GW to generate interest in new products without actually showing or telling us what those new products are.

They fail at marketing. They fail every day.

Commander Endova wrote:Complete and utter horsegak. I think a few of the GW marketing folks deserve a good flogging for turning supposed news into another piss-poor attempt to shove more current range advertising down our throats.

At least they didn't do a crappy animation of a bunch of Blood Angels helmet lenses appearing on a dark screen, all set to some suitably gothic music...

But, yeah, I'll go with the other posters here. Really a poor job of advertising. Note to GW's advertising team: Contrary to conventional wisdom, not ALL attention is good attention. Gaming geeks are probably right up there with with comics geeks about getting ticked when companies try to pull overly cute "tricks". That said, I almost wish I had that advertising account since GW seems to be able to generate sales no matter how ineptly they try to advertise to their loyal customers.

Ugh...

Valete,

JohnS

Whatever1 wrote:You've obviously never heard of "teasers" as they relate to advertising for upcoming releases.

obviously you never did. what they sent out over the weekend was a teaser. today was supposed to be actual news.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:And he finds the following battleforce contents "plausible":
10 Tactical Marines, 5 Assault, 5 Deathwing, 1 Rhino.

What a piece of gak battleforce......Here's a space marine battleforce, but you can have these death company guys instead of the scouts and the random marines....

I understand that the bits are nice...But really? They couldn't even give you a baal predator instead of a rhino?

I agree: it's the same value as the Space Wolf one (if you ignore that nobody ever pays 20 pounds for a Rhino), but it's only 21 models. The Eldar one has 18, but that's got a walker and an MBT in it.

warboss wrote:

Whatever1 wrote:You've obviously never heard of "teasers" as they relate to advertising for upcoming releases.

obviously you never did. what they sent out over the weekend was a teaser. today was supposed to be actual news.

BA 2nd wave in Febuary isn't news? Just because it isn't as much news as you would like doesn't mean it isn't news.

Whatever1 wrote:

warboss wrote:

Whatever1 wrote:You've obviously never heard of "teasers" as they relate to advertising for upcoming releases.

obviously you never did. what they sent out over the weekend was a teaser. today was supposed to be actual news.

BA 2nd wave in Febuary isn't news? Just because it isn't as much news as you would like doesn't mean it isn't news.

Not really no , when you put the completed stormraven pic together with " they'll need to release it sometimes right?"

It doesnt take much to figure it out.