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Cerebrium wrote:They'll just pay someone to do it for them.

And pass the "savings" onto us!

The more I think about it, GW is like a violent spouse.

"YOU MADE ME DO THIS!"

Cerebrium wrote:The more I think about it, GW is like a violent spouse.

"YOU MADE ME DO THIS!"

Now we just need a picture of Draigo punching a warhammer 40K fan and telling him to get back into the kitchen and make him a sandwich.

'Nads, I'd recommend posting their (physical) address in the OP too, as that's supposed to be the best way to contact/complain them.

I recognised your comments solely due to the hair cut too!

I'd also say N&R is fairly appropriate for this as it's where it would get the most notice, with people being appalled after reading the 'real' N&R...
Heck, it was news to me that GW was on FB.

Cerebrium wrote:The more I think about it, GW is like a violent spouse.

"YOU MADE ME DO THIS!"

What does that make the people who keep buying from them?

In that metaphor? Abuse victims.

filbert wrote:

WarOne wrote:I love some of these comments, especially by this brilliant commentator here named Clinton Dowling:

http://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial/posts/228427153840259

"Unless this resin cures cancer, it will be hard to justify the price rises except as another GW price gouge."

Mmmm, who is that young go-getter? I like the cut of his jib.

I know him IRL.

Clinton is an awesome dude.

I think he spends a bit of time here on dakka, but I can't remember his login name....

Lol...GW has deleted large swaths of comments on their FB page.

http://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial/posts/228427153840259

There are few things worse than waking up sick on a Tuesday to find that one of your favorite pastimes is crumbling all around you...

Is it a good idea to invite people to post all the usual stuff? The real issue - prices - will get lost in the white noise. If I were GW I'd have a considerable amount of skepticism about a lot of the stuff that gets dumped on them. The GW forums are a good example - any valid criticisms disappeared in a storm of idiocy, and by the time they closed them they'd ceased to perform any useful function (in fact I wonder if that's where GW's apparent resistance to internet comment stemmed from). But a targeted campaign to make them realise that the coming price 'changes' are a bridge too far would be harder to ignore.

Im letting GW know I care in the easiest way possible.

From June I will no longer be buying ANY new gw products AT ALL
I will only buy second hand.

All this latest idiocy (mostly the latest imminent/past price hikes + the aussie "embargo) have been the final straw.

Wont stop playing with what I have, but they will be getting no more cash from my pocket.

Just took a quick look and it's fairly heated on there already.

I'm not sure my "Careful now, Down with this sort of thing" approach would be heard.

Flashman wrote:Just took a quick look and it's fairly heated on there already.

I'm not sure my "Careful now, Down with this sort of thing" approach would be heard.

You get 10 brownie points for the Father Ted reference though...

I know I am hitting their FB page when I get home. It is blocked for me at work...

Twiter isn't blocked though. I wonder if I should make one of those accounts...nah.

WarOne wrote:Lol...GW has deleted large swaths of comments on their FB page.

http://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial/posts/228427153840259

Have they, I'm not seeing any deletions. The number has been going steadily up all day

GW is dead to me. I have enough toys to play Kings of War.

The first things I stopped buying were the glue, flock, paint, tools etc

Even a Blueshirt told me to buy the glue from another shop cause it's so expensive compared to normal places! :-O When I was at the counter too!!!!

I think I'll really cut back purchases or even just use eBay for everything. Will just be buying the Tau Codex when that's released.

A sad day for GW. A very good day for PP, Mantic, FoW, etc etc etc

gr1m_dan wrote:The first things I stopped buying were the glue, flock, paint, tools etc

Even a Blueshirt told me to buy the glue from another shop cause it's so expensive compared to normal places! :-O When I was at the counter too!!!!

+ 1

Never, ever buy modelling supplies from GW. You can find much, much cheaper alternatives elsewhere which work just as well if not better e.g. I use fine model railway ballast for basing which is half the price of GW modelling sand and not as chunky.

lunarman wrote:

WarOne wrote:Lol...GW has deleted large swaths of comments on their FB page.

http://www.facebook.com/gamesworkshopofficial/posts/228427153840259

Have they, I'm not seeing any deletions. The number has been going steadily up all day

As far as I can tell, they can't delete posts, only hide them. Compare the number of comments the wall post says it has, vs the number you can see when you click to view them. Everything missing has been hidden by GW.

Support has been given for this awsome cause

Well, it's good to know people can't even whine right and there's complaints about how "I'd keep playing if only Mat Ward were fired."

Kanluwen wrote:Well, it's good to know people can't even whine right and there's complaints about how "I'd keep playing if only Mat Ward were fired."

When has this community ever been able to agree on anything, much less act in unison?

I think it's quite telling that people are calling for Ward's head. It says less about Internet Hyperbole and more about the quality (or lack thereof) of Ward's work.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I think it's quite telling that people are calling for Ward's head. It says less about Internet Hyperbole and more about the quality (or lack thereof) of Ward's work.

So where were the people calling for Pete Haines or Cavatore's heads?


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filbert wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Well, it's good to know people can't even whine right and there's complaints about how "I'd keep playing if only Mat Ward were fired."

When has this community ever been able to agree on anything, much less act in unison?

Apparently on hating Ward they can.

An example of the community 'concerted effort'

From Facebook:

Michael Allen Oliver wrote: Its your countries taxes and import laws, not Games Workshop.

Well my little jib has been put in. The only time I'll spend money is on the new Necrons and after that my wallet is sealed up like a vault to GW.

This is actually hilarious. I've never seen such unadulterated venom being projected at a business before. Obviously everything they are getting they brought down on themselves, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a vacancy pop up on GW Careers in a few days for 'Trainee Facebook Comment Deleter' or something like that.

L. Wrex

filbert wrote:An example of the community 'concerted effort'

From Facebook:

Michael Allen Oliver wrote: Its your countries taxes and import laws, not Games Workshop.

Bull. Why are they cracking down on independent stores that -can- sell to distant markets as a good price, then? We don't have an official GW retailer in Brazil. It's online or nothing. If GW wants our market, they should do whatever Maelstrom and Wayland do right instead of effectively pricing whole continents out of their market.

Kanluwen wrote:
So where were the people calling for Pete Haines or Cavatore's heads?

There were plenty.

I haven't posted on dakka in literally years but this thread has inspired me.

I think that this whole situation is hilarious. Who still buys models at these prices? If I were a teenage boy again, facing these prices, I would buy a game console instead of getting into GW gaming and both save money and avoid the awkward shame of being viewed as a giant dork..

Even as an adult with substantial disposable income, it's hard to maintain the fantasy of dignity in what amounts to playing with children's toys when you're spending 30 dollars on the luxury of being able to assemble and paint a piece of injected molded resin.

The poster who made the analogy to abusive relationships hit the nail on the head: you may love them and you may have a bunch of great memories, but they don't listen to you and they treat you like garbage. The only way things will get better is by accepting that they currently suck and that it's your responsibility to stop enabling the abuse.