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...about not buying any "new" GW products. I know a lot of people were making vows of this nature... did anyone else fall already (it's only January)?

I bought the wood elf codex yesterday for full retail price. Impulse buy... dam you!

Ahhhh, but it felt so, so good

Cheers,
Steve / RiTides

Haha.

I'm still holding steady - I said I would spend *less* this year, and I'm still at ZERO.

Of course, that's going to change when C: BA and WFB8 come out, along with me finalizing my SM/CSM army lists...

Pfffft stupid anti-GW abstainant pledges...

The easy way to avoid paying anything from GW, obviously don't go in their store or on their site.

As one of my local independent stockist shut this week, the options are reducing. They were great all GW models 10% cheeper, propably why they closed.

Harms66 wrote:The easy way to avoid paying anything from GW, obviously don't go in their store or on their site.

I know! I was in the den of temptation, no less!

Zack, you have exactly 666 posts at this moment... the tempter returns... and I welcome him...

So the first domino has fallen...

I've stopped caring. GW won't feel it either way, they won't really care if you buy or not because there are a lot more people who will, and even if their profits took a hit they're going to do what they want to do regardless. It won't make them stop sending C&Ds or gaking on their fanbase, if anything it'll just make them raise prices even higher.

That said I still haven't bought much of anything for the past six months, but I'll have to eventually since I need a couple of direct-only models and I can't keep playing at the store for free...

Yes. CURSE YOU PLASTIC SCREAMING BELL.

Funny, I didn't even take the oath and I haven't bought anything yet.

Maybe that's the key... use some reverse psychology... I'm going to buy every single model that I want this year...

RiTides wrote:...about not buying any "new" GW products. I know a lot of people were making vows of this nature... did anyone else fall already (it's only January)?

I bought the wood elf codex yesterday for full retail price. Impulse buy... dam you!

Ahhhh, but it felt so, so good

Cheers,
Steve / RiTides

Seriously. You and the rest of you ladies should throw down and buy a couple of shares of GW's stock. Forget the boycott talk, get in line with the rest of the little piggys....

If you all wanted to, why don't we all get some and start a power block of the company. We get a few shares here and there, pool together and see where it takes us?

We don't have to buy them all at once, we could get a little by little and make our presence known.

If anything, we could push an idea or two and get paid in the process while we B and M about the prices.

This is going to be a very good year for them.

You heard it here first.

Near as I can tell, Codex prices are just about written in stone. It doesn't seem to make much of a difference price-wise where you buy - best you'll get discounted ia maybe a couple of bucks.

Models, on the other hand, now that's where you might want to feel a twinge of guilt paying retail.

oh i don't know. i got the core rulebook for WHFB 7 on the 7th for 15% off retail.

Sorry but reverse psycology won't work on this one all we need to do is get a decent payed job and devote a miere 5% towards warhammer ... Thats what i do and i have over 14 thousand points in one year

Shares are worthless. Even if you owned a significant amount of them you wouldn't have any real influence. At least that's how I understand it.

If you're happy with what you buy, then what's the problem?

I meant this as a bit of a joke... I was very happy to get the codex

However, I had intended any "new" miniature purchases this year to go toward trying other/small company's miniatures, to get some variety and try new things. I'll still be trying to do this, but also be a little more modest in my expectations (I will, of course, be buying the new fantasy rulebook when it comes out, too!).

Cheers,
Steve / RiTides

bleh, ive ordered 2 waveserpents a fire prism and 11 jetbikes since the new year >.> 25% off tho :F

When I build an army in earnest, then I'll purchase the book for it, second hand from the interwebs.

People can spend their money as they wish, I have made the decision to withhold mine from GW until it mends it's ways to my satisfaction as a consumer. If you don't share the view that the company has behaved in a bad way, then carry on buying, if you do feel the company has acted abysmally and yet are still buying from them because you can't be bothered to source things or wait for things... Well that's just between you and your conscience.

The current Wood Elf army book is on Ebay with a buy it now price of £8.49 vs GW's price of £15... Frankly decide for yourself...

I'll spend less this year, too.
Some Orks for completing a competive 1750 pt army
and possibly some new BA stuff.

My conscience isn't affected. Nothing GW has done has affected me, as a gamer or as a consumer. If I need something that GW has then I will buy from them or buy their product from another reseller.

There is no need to feel guilty about buying from GW just as there is no need to justify your buying habits.

Grot 6 wrote:

Seriously. You and the rest of you ladies should throw down and buy a couple of shares of GW's stock. Forget the boycott talk, get in line with the rest of the little piggys....

If you all wanted to, why don't we all get some and start a power block of the company. We get a few shares here and there, pool together and see where it takes us?

We don't have to buy them all at once, we could get a little by little and make our presence known.

If anything, we could push an idea or two and get paid in the process while we B and M about the prices.

This is going to be a very good year for them.

You heard it here first.

I like this idea, I really, really do. A lot of people would need to join in, and then we'd all need to get organised and agree on what changes to push for collectively, but done right it could work.

Btw, i haven't 'officially joined the boycott, but I haven't bought anything this year and the way things are going I probably won't. I'm just not interested in the things they're releasing.

malfred wrote:If you're happy with what you buy, then what's the problem?

this is the internet. it's a den of hate and misery.

happiness is for the weak.

I am still at zero, with the exception of one WD for a painting article. My money has gone into Tamiya, Academy models and some from Raging Hereos.

It is quite liberating getting off the new army must have latest model band wagon. Have to admit, 2+ months so far and now actually considering giving up the GW thing. Enjoying myself far more outside of it.

I spent $225 on Tyranids alone on Saturday...

Howlingmoon wrote:

malfred wrote:If you're happy with what you buy, then what's the problem?

this is the internet. it's a den of hate and misery.

capitalization is for the weak.

Fixed your typo

I've already spent over 500 US on hobby and it's not even the end of janurary :/

I never joined the boycott, but I did intend to reduce the spend. Today, I ordered a Typhus (response to the tyranid invasion).

So weak.

Ha ha.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde.

"You can resist everything - but temptation."

That's the problem with people these days. No stick-to-it-iveness or tenaciousness (these have gotta be real words, I've heard too many Americans using them to think otherwise). You make a pact, you stick to it, it's the principle of the thing.

I'm switching games for a few years. GW will see zero money from me for the next two years. Then again, I spend less than $100 per year so I doubt they'll miss it. Little Timmy's dad will drop $1k to assuage some misguided guilt thing over the divorce and the beancounters will laugh all the way to the bank.

chromedog wrote:To paraphrase Oscar Wilde.

"You can resist everything - but temptation."

This is true... I'm guessing because it's really what you wanted to do after all. If I was Really done with GW, I wouldn't buy... but despite their business practices, I love their product, and the availability of it and people who play it.

But I'm still going to be looking for other means to support different companies... such as where I get the bag to carry my army, limiting the purchase of "new" GW figs, etc.