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Ok so I just bought my three games day tickets as they went on sale today, and I figured I would just give a reminder to all interested to order them as they arent selling at the door, and I garuntee they will sell out fast.

Or maybe it won't. maybe you could check it out and people will go the year after when GW have proved they can put on a good Games Day.

Trade show with one trader? No thanks.

A Games Day... sold out?

It looks like the pressure sales learned from splash releases and the limited space hulk fiasco are showing their ugly heads.

"Buy it now because we arent selling tickets at the door! Going fast!"

Screw Games days. It was the worst $40 I ever spent on anything, and that includes drugs which are even worse for my health than a GD (though thats debatable).

Oo this year it's only $25.00

That's $25 too much!!!

We don't even have Games Days in Australia because they realised they were pointless. We just buy the GD mini in stores.

And with the Iron Curtain of Jervis coming down on any an all news about upcoming releases, why bother going?

H: you may meet him
Then you can really voice your opinions.

I would say thats well worth $25 lol

agreed JD really I am going to GD just to do demon, and maybe buy the forge world mini. Truth be told if it is anything like chicago was last year then this will undoubtably be my last one ever because that was just too depressing.

Hmm.

$28CDN for a ticket.
$528CDN for return airfare
$220CDN for hotel
$150CDN for food and taxi
-----------------------------------
$926

For $926 I get:

The option to buy "promotional" product at the venue.

Promotional Games Day Miniature. (Also available the day after Games Day on Ebay for a fraction of the cost to attend Games Day)

Previews extending into the next 3 months from one vendor. (Also available on the internet the day after Games Day for free).

The option to enter "Golden Demon" (along with the honour of having your model mistreated by staff offset by the benefit of winning nothing for 99.5% of the participants).

The chance to participate in "exicting" hobby events. (Limited sign in slots are included free of charge.)

I'm sorry, Games Day is too much "WIN" for my feeble mind to comprehend. I'll save my money to attend a "lesser event", such as SDCC...

Emp: There are a few things that draw me into GD.

1: The games - Allways get a good game there, and its nice to see some of the armies on the tables.

2: Golden - Amazing models, i would happily pay £50 to look at the line-up of the models.

3: FW - i can check its not broken / warped and has all the parts while im there

JD21290 wrote:

3: FW - i can check its not broken / warped and has all the parts while im there

THAT is probably the best reason to go, actually...

Plus, it still gets you the miniature of the year 'free' too, right?

So, if you're planning on any FW purchases, and you live within a reasonable distance, not too bad, right?

Thats 1 reason i go alpharius
nothing worse than waiting a month, then having to send it back, and then getting it 2 months later

No sadly you still have to pay for the forge world games day mini that year. I think you were believing it free alp, but not sure. I can understand with the neighbors to the north and even on the other side of the country for games day why they wouldnt go. Personally if I am not deployed in 2011(still up in the air) I was planning to go to italy as this could coincide with my late honeymoon (she and I bought a house instead). Truthfully though the lack of paying for shipping seeing golden demon, and all around atmosphere of GD was the fun for me. Sadly their isnt much in the ways of deals to be had anymore so this is one of the major negatives, but I am hoping in one last fleeting moment of faith that this one will actually make up for the past two years of well...junk.

Empchild wrote:No sadly you still have to pay for the forge world games day mini that year.

The Forgeworld figure I can see attendees having to pay for, but isn't that ugly chaos sorceror model included with admission? If you have to pay for him too, that makes Games Day an even better deal!

I find it hillarious that the GW bean counters think that holding a one day event with the Forgeworld Shop, Golden Demon and some open gaming is sufficient to be the PREMIERE GAMES WORKSHOP EVENT of the year for North America. Most decent sized comic (and other nerd) conventions are usually 2-3 days, with multiple vendors and lots of events. With an offering as feeble as Games Day, I think you'd be hard pressed to get anyone outside a 3-4 hour drive to put in the effort. Any more than that and you'd be spending more time travelling than time at the event.

yes you can only buy one of those sorcerrers per ticket and they must be purchased at games day this year i read today.

I nearly make my money back most years from FW alone, then Golden and the game make up the £10 extra usually.

Empchild wrote: With an offering as feeble as Games Day, I think you'd be hard pressed to get anyone outside a 3-4 hour drive to put in the effort. Any more than that and you'd be spending more time travelling than time at the event.

QFT.

I live about 2 hours from the event. Let's see:

$25 ticket
$15 dollars to park
$15 for lunch (Inner Harbor at Baltimore)
$15-20 for tolls
$20 for gas

Total: $85 + wear and tear on the car, to drive a total of 4 hours, wait in 2 hours worth of FW line (and they're out of everything but "trenchline corner 2"), 1 hour of Golden Demon line, get no good info, no sales, no bitz by the ounce (or bitz at all), no "new releases" for sale that aren't already preordered or released, and look at a cabinet of greens that are mostly test sculpts by new sculptors that will never be released.

Not a chance. GW will have to put a string of these together, with solid content, good info sessions, and really offer something for me to attend, before I even consider it. And I used to go every year just to browse.

Oh, and the tickets used to be $40 when the mini was free. Now its $25 to attend, and you have to buy the mini (probably in the $15-$20 range, after all, its limited edition! Until its not.

*edited for quote wackiness

I'll hit the indie events in chicago.....

Amazing models, i would happily pay £50 to look at the line-up of the models.

I'd much rather not. I'll wait until GW posts the winners up on the website for free.

I'll be there. I enjoy putting on a big game, and drinking beer over at the Wharf Rat, or whatever they are calling it now. Not sure how I'd feel just attending. I don't mind the work, love building the tables, and being in the middle of what's going on.

Games Day was just such a huge colassal fail last year, I think GW will have to work harder for my money this year.

Empchild wrote:Ok so I just bought my three games day tickets as they went on sale today, and I figured I would just give a reminder to all interested to order them as they arent selling at the door, and I garuntee they will sell out fast.

I guarantee they will be selling tickets at the door.

Shame I can't make a "fart" sound on the internet...trust me, I'm doing it right now! from both ends!!

Sounds like the fact that I have never attended a GW GD in my life is actually money well saved! Although it seems the event has gone from bad to worse.....

To be honest, its quite sad really, as an event of this nature "could" be about the gamers and not the companies....however, thats the brick, its not about companies, its about a company!! and a pants one at that.

After all the GAk GW is pulling this year, and probably next, it will be interesting to see how their "flag ship" event actually turns out....

Running out to buy my ticket to the GD here right now

I hear that GW is planning on handing out C&D notices to everyone who buys a ticket and shows up in public with it.

"That ticket you're holding has our IP on it, you must understand that we must protect our IP and cannot allow you to display our logo's or artwork in public."

I like your signature, lol...

Previews extending into the next 3 months from one vendor.

Pfft, you don't even get that, really. What was the only real "preview" we got from the last GD?

A Tyranid codex cover. Just the cover. No models, no rules, nothing but a boring and strangely colorful piece of artwork of a carnifex standing around. Everything else that was even remotely exciting was quickly snatched away whenever people started taking pictures.

mattyboy22 wrote:

Empchild wrote:Ok so I just bought my three games day tickets as they went on sale today, and I figured I would just give a reminder to all interested to order them as they arent selling at the door, and I garuntee they will sell out fast.

I guarantee they will be selling tickets at the door.

I garuntee they wont be since it says they won't be on their website. OO and cruentus nice fake quote I looked back through my posts and was like I didnt say that.

Empchild wrote:

I garuntee they wont be since it says they won't be on their website. OO and cruentus nice fake quote I looked back through my posts and was like I didnt say that.

....it seems like they may need to rethink that particular strategy.

JD21290 wrote:
2: Golden - Amazing models, i would happily pay £50 to look at the line-up of the models.

If you have that much money to throw away I suggest that you give it to a charity that benefits the poor or something. Seriously.

Sidstyler wrote:I like your signature, lol...

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Martin Niemoeller In response to a student regarding the atrocities of the Nazis 'How could it happen'.


Have got to say that UK's GD has been a bit of a let down for some time. This year me and my group trundled around for a few hours, met up with a few people, spoke to the designers...then left.

Exclusive or not GW need to pull the stops out.

Mr. Burning wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:I like your signature, lol...

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Martin Niemoeller In response to a student regarding the atrocities of the Nazis 'How could it happen'.

I know, I just found his parody of it amusing.