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Eh, I haven't bought a model in 3 months. I've got so many unfinished or never started models that I have no need to buy any more. I've even stopped buying games workshop paint, so I just don't care. These days all my extra cash has gone into a rapidly expanding comic collection.

I was going to get into the WotR, even had some models left over from my stint with LotR. But unemployment and the recession hit and can't afford the $150 for the book, trays and supplemental models that I want.

Think I'll just get the new Guard 'dex and break out the old metal guard models so they can see the light of day again.

Sirius42 wrote:I'd like to add my voiceto the folks that aske where did the 25% figure come from?

will I Change my buying habits? maybe, it depends just how much of a price increase there actually is, 5-10% I can live with, much more and It wont be a decision made by me so much as for me by my finances.

Here

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/04/40k-fantasy-news-june-2009-price.html

Happens every year

LunaHound wrote:

Also here: ( sorry but you have to read it yourself, i dont usually keep track of warseer stuff )

http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192372
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Dont blame you for not following warseers uber length threads of nothingness, found the 25% figure myself though, thats not good, not liking that one bit, 10 marines would go from £18 to £22.50, battle forces from £50 to £62.50. ouchies.

Lets just hope that figure is wrong.

*Grunt* Sometimes I wish i never strated collecting warhammer.

I hate to say this but , some how forge world stuff seems
alot more appealing now.... ( if you compare the new prices)

"Replace all the upcomming cadians with DKOK stuff! " might sound like a joke
a few month ago but now? not too sure anymore...

DKoK would come in around $5.80 USD/model in assembling a single squad with heavy weapon. Plastic IG, $3 USD/model in assembling a single squad with heavy weapon. I'm starting to believe its GW's goal to eventually bump the price of plastics upto those of DKoK, since people are providing them with statistical data supporting such a price.

fitzeh wrote:Where did this magic number of 25% materialise from?? I've not seen it anywhere.

Hopefully it's from wild ass guesses and mass hysteria. I've been told to expect something in the 3% to 5% increases on some products. Battleforces to 95.00 from 90.00, etc.

And take that with a grain of salt, sometimes what I get from GW is currect, sometimes the higher ups don't tell the guys in trade sales the total truth, so my info gets garbled. A couple of the boys in promotions used to try to spin the math on increase, which I hope has stopped. It only works until I can punch a few numbers into an excell sheet.

Sternguard_rock wrote:*Grunt* Sometimes I wish i never strated collecting warhammer.

You know, I never really thought about it before, but I really do wish I never started collecting. Compared to the downright scary amount of money and time I've poured into this game since late 2006, I simply haven't gotten my money's worth out of it, and probably never will.

Mikhaila numbers sound more logical. No sane company is going to go for a 25% price increase in a this economic climate unless they feel like going belly up.

But Wall Street has shown us that sometimes the guys on top are anything but sane

M.

Someone should be keeping tabs on how many people say they are going to quit after a price increase and actually quit. I'd be interested to see the data.

This is an estimate, but i think it'll be some where along the line using my current army as example :
*note prices in CDN

Lizardmen Chakax, Eternity Warden $17.00 -> $18
Tiktaq'to, Master of Skies $20.00 -> $25
Lizardmen Saurus Cavalry $40.00 ->$45
Lizardmen Kroxigors $23.00 -> $25
Lizardmen Razordon Hunting Pack $25.00 -> $30
Lizardmen Salamander Hunting Party $35.00 <-- $30 ( wow a decrease z... )

You would've spent the money on something else. I rather like having painted models to show
for my money.

what about savings account malfred?

It could be staying in ppls bank for interest instead
of turning into minis D":

For my part, I am seriously contemplating selling nearly everything I have for 40K (quite a bit including my extensively converted =][= themed deathwing army) and WHFB (teeny pile) and just using that money to fund my new found love affair with WotR.

LotR isnt an expensive game, but don't be fooled by those $25 LotR boxed sets into thinking that they are cheap. At least not on the scale in order to play WotR.

Recently I made my first purchase in almost 2 years if memory serves, and those 3 boxes of Army of the Dead along with movement trays set me back $90+tax just to make two formations each with three companies. That gave me a grand total of 360 points of the 2k I need.

If the price goes up significantly (more than 10%) there is no way in hell I would spend any money on it unless it came from selling my previous GW models.

*poke
Since GW is steadily increasing in $ might as well as hold on to your 40k stuff and let them inflate. (unless its confirmed they'll be getting new models )

I don't know about anyone else but every time a price increase comes up I have to stop and consider if the hobby is still worth it and what the whole point of collecting miniatures is in the first place. What has been happening lately is I pick up a 20 or 40 dollar box of models and then think about all the comics or whatever that is and the comics have been winning every time.

I agree that I like to have models to show for my money. However at some point the company will simply price me out of the hobby. I'm not saying this is the death blow for me, but its getting there.

Corey85 wrote:I don't know about anyone else but every time a price increase comes up I have to stop and consider if the hobby is still worth it and what the whole point of collecting miniatures is in the first place. What has been happening lately is I pick up a 20 or 40 dollar box of models and then think about all the comics or whatever that is and the comics have been winning every time.

I agree that I like to have models to show for my money. However at some point the company will simply price me out of the hobby I'm not saying this is the death blow for me, but its getting there.

Yes thats because atm you are still attached to warhammer. By the day you lost interest in it, you'll be pulling your hair out screaming

"Wtfffffffff i spent so much money on bunch of plastic???????" etc etc

Well LunaHound, if or when that happens then I will humbly bow at your feet and declare that you were right.

Oh no dont, im still in the same boat as everyone here :"P

LunaHound wrote:
*poke
Since GW is steadily increasing in $ might as well as hold on to your 40k stuff and let them inflate. (unless its confirmed they'll be getting new models )

This is indeed true. But its a two edged sword, while it may indeed be cheaper than buying at retail prices, somethings are so expensive that people simply dont want them.

Case in point, my enormous SOB army. Easily 2K in infantry alone and priced to sell, but thats still a lot of money. Just not a good time even at dreastic and steep discounts.

Which is what makes many pople scratch their heads at GW's price increase and the timing of such.

Do what I always do:
c>Avoid giving money directly to GW and buy second hand stuff from Ebay, Bartertown, etc.

These venues are full of deals if you know were to look and don't mind stripping models. I scored two Wave Serpents and a Falcon for my new/old Eldar force last week for a total of 65$ shipped. They were constructed but unpainted.

This even holds true for new releases. Want some Valkaries? Wait a few months after they get released and they will be on the second hand market in droves.

What is the cliche'? "Retail is for suckers"?


TR

LunaHound wrote:
what about savings account malfred?

It could be staying in ppls bank for interest instead
of turning into minis D":

Is that what people would have spent their money on instead?

@malf Dunno about others but thats what i do o_o
so i assume there must be some that does too

I would love to support my FLGS, but with the exchange rate being favorable after so many years, I have to buy from UK discounters. Fortunately I've most everything I need, barring a few Ork units, so this won't affect me too much.

Corey85 wrote:I don't know about anyone else but every time a price increase comes up I have to stop and consider if the hobby is still worth it and what the whole point of collecting miniatures is in the first place. What has been happening lately is I pick up a 20 or 40 dollar box of models and then think about all the comics or whatever that is and the comics have been winning every time.

I agree that I like to have models to show for my money. However at some point the company will simply price me out of the hobby. I'm not saying this is the death blow for me, but its getting there.

I see myself in this situation. Then again, considering the orks I still have to finish... perhaps that's a good thing...

>Groan<

Well, I guess my skills in scratch-building will improve from this.

Thank you, GW!

To all the Forgeworld believers, I'm on board with this plan, If the prices go up 25% i'll just start buying FW exclusively, I think it'll probably only be 5% though and 25% is fear talking

between bartertown, the occasional ebay deal, local players dumping armies and of course casting, the increase will have very minimal effects on me.

I'm curious, what are people's rough estimates as to how much they've spent on GW stuff over the years?