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 Sigvatr wrote:

 Skriker wrote:


Nice way to ignore the last sentence that explains that eventually they will raise the prices so high with their current methods that their profits *will* suffer and they will no longer be able to "do whatever they want".

I take it, discussing isn't such an easy task sometimes, so I'll try to keep it simple.

I fail to see a contradiction in these statements, but feel free to enlighten me. Those aren't mutually exlusive, I said what you said in my very first post in here.

As long as GW makes profit, they raise prices.

GW no longer makes profit, they will rethink their business model.

It's simple as that: "vote with your wallet". Either buy it and suck up everything GW does or stop buying.

Thanks for the insult there mate. Couldn't make your point without relying on one? They don't raise prices because they make profit, they raise prices because they HAVE to do so to make profit as their sales numbers decrease. There is a subtle difference there and that difference is one I think is rather important. They are ALREADY responding to the market not buying as much, they are just doing so in a foolish and self defeating way, relying on short term money gains over trying to do anything to understand why people are buying less of their product in the first place.

It also isn't as simple as "buy it and suck up everything GW does" or stop buying. I have already shelved new army plans and ideas specifically because of their price increases so I am already voting with my wallet. I don't need to buy anything else from them, but I still want to be hopeful that they could change and improve the way they do things. After 26 years in this hobby (yes I started playing with WFB 3rd edition and Rogue Trader) I don't want to just walk away from everything either. So I'll work on the current project I have going, but probably stop buying minis from them after that, unless something seriously changes.

Only people with black and white thinking throw everything away because they dislike part of what they are dealing with. That kind of extreme response is only rarely valid and then only in the most extreme circumstances. There is almost nothing in life that you have invested any of your time into that makes sense to completely dump just because you disagree with some part of it. Want to drop your gaming company because they are proven to use children's blood in their paint, then yeah makes sense. Drop them completely because you wish they would see how they are driving themselves towards an ingnoble end by continually raising their prices and putting out lackluster products is a bit over the top.

Hope that clears up how I feel our positions are different. Perhaps next time you can ask without being insulting about it. Just because you want it to be simple, doesn't make it so or mean that I have to agree that it is the tiny little simple picture you want to paint.

Skriker

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