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Shredsmore wrote:

I just noticed that Helborg has the exact same sword that comes with the Empire general sprue...

I heard that there will be a price rise in March

Arm.chair.general wrote:I heard that there will be a price rise in March

Piss off more customers? Force players to move to other game systems? Make the initial start up cost-hurdle even higher? Surely you jest... GW would never do that.

Wasn't it in April last year?

GW annual price hike has usually been at May.

Really, whining about GW pricing and how they're destroying themselves was kinda funny and original subject for the first million threads or so, but after that it has got kinda old. So maybe let it be until they actually do rise their prices again.

Backfire wrote:GW annual price hike has usually been at May.

Really, whining about GW pricing and how they're destroying themselves was kinda funny and original subject for the first million threads or so, but after that it has got kinda old. So maybe let it be until they actually do rise their prices again.

You mean like they did last week?

Very interesting. I've just wondered into this conversation and had a flick through the posts. What grabbed my attention was the cost of a Codex, £20. I thought you have to be joking, but no, I checked the GW website and there it was.

As I've mentioned before, I left tabletop gaming about 3 years ago, so don't really have an axe to grind one way or another. What I am starting to get back into is role playing and one of the games I'm interested in is Dresden Files. Now I'm pretty certain that the fan base for Dresden Files is going to be some what smaller than GW, so they are likely to sell less units than GW. So with this in mind I give you the following:

Amazon price for the core rule book: £33.32 and is hardback. With what is is made up of from a review:

This is definitely the heaviest book in my roleplaying collection, and every page has been lovingly bound, stitched and glued into the heavyduty spine. No pages falling out randomly from this beauty, no matter how often you leave it laying wide open on the floor. One of the few hardbooks I've seen where doing so is easy and doesn't require some sort of heavy weight on it to stop pages trying to turn over and close, perfect for a reference book. Laminated, full-colour and the content is the best roleplaying game I've ever played. Currently we are translating our long-running Fireborn campaign over to this system, which has been surprisingly easy. Lots of thumbs up, and the system is great too.

Another example is the World of Darkness rule book, again it's hardback and is £14.99. Same fan base restrictions as most RPGs.

To me it's stating the obvious, stating something that I've believed for a long time, that GW are over priced and there is no justification for it. They know they can charge what they want and people will pay it.

If people want to pay the prices that's down to them, it's their hobby, but that doesn't change the fact that they are ripping people off... and yes we all know they aren't a charity and they have to make money, but that argument does not let them of the hook of taking advantage of their customers.