UK Games Day Combined GW news (40k, Fantasy, but not FW)

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**Grimtuff**

redbristles wrote:
I went, it was basically "salesday" (without the sale) as previously noted, my review on Reddit is copied below:

Here's my review of things other than the new FW sneak peaks that are covered in other threads...

Just for those of you who didn't get to go in the UK, I just wanted to let you know that you really didn't miss out on anything. The move this year back to the NIA was an absolute disaster in my eyes.

The venue was easily two thirds smaller than when it was at the NEC. Over half the floor space was taken up by the retail area, more on that in a minute.

There were no participation games, no "make and take", no conversion competitions, etc. The design studio, White Dwarf team and friends were all there, but kind of just showing what was already up on the site, there seemed very little energy to the place overall, almost like the teams couldn't be bothered to be there. It was nice to see the new Dark Elves in person, but again, nothing new than the pics in WD. I had one walk around this area and felt like I'd done it all.

I got there just before 10, there were no queues to get in to the venue at all, a first for me. I made my way to the retail area in time, hoping to get some FW, the queue was obviously huge so I just went into the regular GW store part, got the exclusive model and joined the queue in order to join another queue to pay. I then noticed people were waiting to pay for FW as well, and was told I'd have to leave the store, rejoin the FW queue, then come back into the regular GW bit and get my items again... Confusing. Trying to leave the regular GW store part was hard as I was stopped and questioned 3 times about why I was leaving without any items, there was no exit other than through the checkouts, so I had to be let out through a barrier. Strange.

The FW line was closed at various points of the day to let them deal with the backlog, much to people's annoyance. I eventually managed to time it perfectly (purely luck) and got in shortly after it had re-opened, and got some nice items, Dread Maw, Massacre etc, lovely. Then I had to join the queue to pay in the regular GW store. This took an hour and a half. To be fair they were handing out free water as it was very warm, but it was all due to their inadequate checkout system constantly breaking, which happens EVERY YEAR. Why they don't change their systems or test them first is beyond me.

After paying, I had a look downstairs at GD and Armies on Parade, it was in a really tight room that was overcrowded so I could barely see anything, but from what I could see there were some good entries and some nice dioramas especially.

I left after 2.5 hours as I had seen everything, pretty much the message I got from the day was "give us your money", extremely disappointed overall. I, and several others I overheard, felt like it was pretty much the minimum effort that could have been made by GW, other than setting up a big shop in a convention centre. Next year I think I'll just go to the FW Open Day as you get to see all their new releases there as well, and it's generally a much more interesting day.

Anyone else go and feel similar/different?

Sooooo.... basically that can be summed up in three words: A complete fustercluck.

You'd have think they'd have learned after all this time on how to handle the FW stand, with it just descending into a disorganised mosh pit after a short while. I was just shaking my head reading on how bad the method for payment was. Maybe that's the whole idea; it's for the quintessential GW and British experience. You have to queue, then get your items, queue some more, then buy your stuff. That's what people go to Games Day for, it was said, under oath and on public record to "buy Games Workshop products"

**bu11etmagn3tt**

catharsix wrote:
MajorStoffer wrote:
What's really amusing is this is basically a FW convention; there's a ton o stuff on display and plenty of tidbits from them, but nothing from GW or BL.

Really shows how bizarre the company is.

More to the point, it shows how FW is really on a roll these days, while GW is ham-fistedly bumbling around in the dark.

As GW prices creep closer to FW prices, it looks like I'm going to start making their superior stuff the only thing I get for 40K...

-C6

FW is GW btw, but I agree the FW arm of GW is much better in quality and range. (heated topic about is FW & GW the same company or not (like ebay/paypal), many threads, but just go to their website and see the legal page, let's move on), anyways, on your second point, GW is already higher in price on several items over FW, example - COMMANDER CULLN OF THE RED SCORPIONS $27 usd VERSUS Space Marine Captain $30 (the rerelease of the Black Reach model, lol).

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Kroothawk wrote:
...confirmed that the Dark Elf miniatures on preorder since Saturday are indeed by GW ... And that the digital Sororitas Codex is indeed the old WD Codex with minor faith point tweeks and an added warlord traits list.

You forgot to add the also useful info, fire hot, ice not, to this informative insight. Oh, and, Day is Bright & night is dark has also been confirmed by scientists.

Indeed....

Please don't attach non wargaming images to Dakka.

Reds8n

**Kroothawk**

GW Fulchester wrote:It is Games Day UK this weekend. If you can't make this weekend, don't worry we can simulate all the thrills and spills of the event in-store.

By making you wait for an hour at the till before you can make a purchase.

(Disclaimer: There actually is no GW Fulchester, just a facebook page. More info here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/503706.page )