No new anouncement in WD?

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**BlackGorth**

It wouldn't surprise me to see Necrons come out next month despite no "coming next month" page in WD.

After all, if you knew for certain Necrons were coming you might decide to hold on to your money & not splash out on Dread Fleet, right?

**Ravenous D**

I really doubt there is a huge interest in dreadfleet, if spacehulk was available for months after, then I suspect that dreadfleet with be collecting dust in a year from now, that is of course unless GW did an extremely small run so it "sells out" to build hype.

**Grakmar**

The lack of a "coming next month" in WD is the announcement. And, they mean it literally. There will be no more WD.

(Just kidding, but, we all can dream, can't we?

)

**Mr Mystery**

Ravenous D wrote:
redbristles wrote:
Ravenous D wrote:On a side note I suggest to everyone to check out the price tag on "meh"fleet.

It's still £70, what do you mean?

Just saying thats pretty high for a game you'll play twice with models you cant use outside of it. I wasnt interested in it before, and at $135 CAN It might as well not even exist.

I reckon I'll play it more than twice ta...I quite like my Naval Games. Also, models are quite a bit bigger than I thought.

**FalkorsRaiders**

KarlPedder wrote:
FalkorsRaiders wrote:This white dwarf was to be released in september, for october, so they didn't need the incoming, since dreadfleet was known. the next wd at the end of this month will have the next incoming. most likely, it will be necrons. all i have to base this on is the fact "I BELIEVE" it will happen.

If the Necrons are due in Nov (because the chances of it being Dec are pretty much 0) then they will be featured (that is full reveal of 1st wave models because its the month of their release...) in the Nov WD issue 283 which will be released on the last Sat of Oct, any "incoming" for them would have appeared on the back page of the Oct WD issue 282 which normally would have been released on the 24th of Sept but has been delayed until Oct 1st, but the OP got his issue early and is saying it doesn't have an "incoming" on the back page which was actually revealed about a week ago when somebody else who ogt theirs early reported that apart from a little finecast and Dreadfleet the only new releases in it are new modeling tools. So short of GW throwing something up one their web page the 1st we will see of the Necrons (if they are still slotted for Nov) will be in the Nov WD where it wont be a teaser because that will be the WD corresponding to their release.

Everyone ignore me and listen to this guy and Kroothawk. (no sarcasm)

**The Decapitator**

KarlPedder wrote:
The Decapitator wrote:It's because of Dreadfleet. The way the release schedule works now is that apart from this month WD comes out on the last Sat of the month with a "coming soon" back page. On the same day the Pre-orders go up for said product and them 1 week later it is released. The big release this month is Dreadfleet and because of GD etc we already know about that so that's why there isn't anything on the back page.

Lookout for next months issue on the last Sat of October and you'll see the "coming soon" page for whatever comes out the first week of November, probably Necrons.

There is one key inaccuracy here the "coming soon" on the back page isn't about this months releases its a about the following months, with the system you describe the WD wouldnt cover products until they had been out for a month.....
Also the OP is saying there is no "coming soon" on the back page of the October 282WD which is all about Dreadfleet and any coming soon would be about Nov releases he isn't talking about the September 281 issue which also had no coming soon on the back page but did have the teaser flyer for Dreadfleet.

The real new here is it looks like the coming soon at the back of WD has been dropped now as well because apparently even confirming something is coming a month early like they did with OK even if there are no model pics is still too much information....

You are of course completely right, I've just managed to scramble my brains trying to work out exactly how GW's WD/New Releases schedule works and have been unsuccessful.

Maybe that's the point, confuse the customers until they just give up and sign everything they own over to to Mark Wells who will act on your behalf with full power of attorney!

Then you'll be signed up onto a lifetime subscription of WD......

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

In keeping with the nautical theme and to protect the 1 week announcement in WD and all that poop, henceforth "what's in next month's WD" will be written on a scrap of paper, sealed in a bottle, encased in concrete and dropped into the Marianas Trench.

**kitch102**

warboss wrote:
gilljoy wrote:
kitch102 wrote:Semi off topic, I learnt at GD that if you'd don't like the secrecy act, you can write to them saying it's a stupid thing. Explain why, give a valid point, and if enouh people say so then they'll stop and will go back to putting up pre-releases etc.

I think every single person on dakka, warseer, bell of lost souls and any other GW related website should do this, I'll do it now myself.

I suspect that the saying of that at GD was just "we really care" marketing/PR speak and is not really the case. GW's recent decisions seem to indicate that they make important choices based on divination of cast chicken bones.

No harm in trying though.

Just to get peoples thoughts on this 9and without wanting to sound too much like a revolutionist)... what would you all think to starting a petition page, purely so we can collate the number of people that want WD and the marketing strategy to go back to the way it was a few months back - with pre-orders and what have you? If the community'll get behind it, I'd have no problem getting it up and running and then sending it on to, say Andrew Kenrick, and the GW higher ups.

Serious question - what do you think? it'll enable us to say exactly how many people are for the return of advanced information and give GW a royal kick up the arse; currently we're acting as individuals which may be annoying, but a petition with a few thousand signatures on it would be hard to miss.

**CT GAMER**

Howard A Treesong wrote:

I think their strategy is to make it that you can only get information from their shops thus 'forcing' people to go to their shops to find out anything about future releases. Even now White Dwarf is sent to subscribers after the shops get it, so if you want to hear the latest stuff you're better off going to their stores.

Which shops? The ones they are closing left and right? No GW even exists in my state...

If this is the plan, they are far far stupider then we have even hinted at in the various GW buisness discussion threads...

**Ehsteve**

Howard A Treesong wrote:
Melissia wrote:Which makes no sense because not everyone who has the mag would know about GD. Doesnt' GW want WD to be the primary source of info?

I think their strategy is to make it that you can only get information from their shops thus 'forcing' people to go to their shops to find out anything about future releases.

Well that's a load of bull, staff don't know anything about the new releases (even what they do they can't talk about) and I get taken aside by the manager for talking about even basic rumours. WD needs more painting guides, less battle reports for noncompetitive lists and less Jervis Johnson snorefest articles.

**Dysartes**

Doctor Optimal wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:I heard it's because GW is having cash flow issues and is not able to put out new products at the moment. That's also why there were no new products at Games Day. Until they get back on their feet and pay their vendors there's literally nothing in the pipeline.

No.

Not really.

But I'd love to spread this rumor across the internets and watch GW squirm.

For this to work GW would have to actually monitor what goes on in the Internet. Guess where the critical flaw in your plan is?

No, not really - you just need to target the rumour correctly.

Get the attention of those who own shares, and see what happens...

**djphranq**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:In keeping with the nautical theme and to protect the 1 week announcement in WD and all that poop, henceforth "what's in next month's WD" will be written on a scrap of paper, sealed in a bottle, encased in concrete and dropped into the Marianas Trench.

LOL and don't forget the mermaids... there must be involvement of mermaids.

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I'm thinking it's the ink saving thing... I noticed I've been getting a bit more emails from them on forthcoming stuff... although later than what some folks already find and post.