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 Rippy wrote:
Meh no big deal in my opinion. Kind of amusing though.

This is basically my thoughts on the matter too.

You can still see the bluetack on the Tau Commander's shoulder weapons FWIW.

Happygrunt wrote:That was unfortunate. We had an opportunity as a community to foster some real communication and we blew it.

We really didn't. He was a recruiting guy, posting about upcoming available positions in the US. He was in no position to engage in actual meaningful communication with GW's customer base.

gossipmeng wrote:Mistakes happen no biggie - there are probably only a handful of people that manage the information on their entire website. If every image had do get passed through an approval process of 10 people then we would never have updates.

Hyperbole, much?

Even if they realised their mistake.... they aren't going to go: "Hey get the baneblade, grab an extra sprue, paint the missing piece, attach it, and lets photograph it again so our web master can swap the 360 photo."

Why not?

Most companies would feel that using a damaged model in their promotional material would somewhat detract from the impact of that promotional material.