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He's at the store in duarte and I have to admit he's a really cool guy.

Quick- show him a White Dwarf magazine. Ask him why they thought it would be a good idea to ruin it.

Gah! He already left. Apparently he's on his way to australia and had a layover at LAX. Get ready Aussies.

SpitfireArsonist wrote:He's at the store in duarte and I have to admit he's a really cool guy.

What exactly made you think he was a pretty cool dude? I'm not asking to bash him(or you) or anything, its just I've heard others say roughly the same. I missed the opportunity to meet him on a few occasions when he visited the US HQ before it moved to Memphis. Did he have any knowledge of playing the games? Answer any questions about GW related stuff that might have been asked?

He literally walked up to every person in the store, like 20ish, and asked them what they play, why they play and gave some incite on his own experiences in the hobby. He shot the gak with all of us too and joked about random stuff. Apparently he plays Space Wolves and has been reading some of the books recently. We even gave him crap about how there hasn't been a gamesday in California since '08, and he chuckled and tried to give us some info as to why. He looked in on a game or two and tried to help out too.

Was a nice experience and gives me a little hope for the "grimdark" company.

SpitfireArsonist wrote:He literally walked up to every person in the store, like 20ish, and asked them what they play, why they play and gave some incite on his own experiences in the hobby. He shot the gak with all of us too and joked about random stuff. Apparently he plays Space Wolves and has been reading some of the books recently. We even gave him crap about how there hasn't been a gamesday in California since '08, and he chuckled and tried to give us some info as to why. He looked in on a game or two and tried to help out too.

Was a nice experience and gives me a little hope for the "grimdark" company.

This explains a lot

SpitfireArsonist wrote:He literally walked up to every person in the store, like 20ish, and asked them what they play, why they play and gave some incite on his own experiences in the hobby. He shot the gak with all of us too and joked about random stuff. Apparently he plays Space Wolves and has been reading some of the books recently. We even gave him crap about how there hasn't been a gamesday in California since '08, and he chuckled and tried to give us some info as to why. He looked in on a game or two and tried to help out too.

Was a nice experience and gives me a little hope for the "grimdark" company.

It was all good fun, people pumping their arm in the air cheering when he would walk by showing off a model he painted. We knew something was wrong when Jim, the local regular, slowly stopped pumping his arm, letting it drop to his side... and the cheers died down. Things got real quiet. It was then I realized the miniature and paint job he was showing everyone was heavily converted----with Chapter House Studios parts. Well, things went south pretty quick I can tell ya. Two red shirts roughed him up, dragging him out of the shop while he kept yelling "I AM WHO I AM".

Anyways that was the night the GW CEO stopped in our store, April 28th 2010.

AoE, I hope that is a joke.

PLEASE tell me that that is a joke. If that is true, I'm never setting foot in a GW again.

What, you haven't seen the GW brute squad take someone out back before?

Guess I wont mention the GW ninja's that kill everyone who mention SQUA----

SpitfireArsonist wrote:We even gave him crap about how there hasn't been a gamesday in California since '08, and he chuckled and tried to give us some info as to why.

OK, so what was the info he 'tried' to give? Was it a chuckle like "sukka's" or a chuckle like "gamesday will rotate to a different area each year and your next?"

He basically said that they are trying to pinpoint where the best place to hold gamesday "permanently" more or less is, and they are trial and erroring it right now. He said that the next gamesday was still up for debate but memphis is likely. He also asked what conventions are held on the west coast, and how GW is tying to integrate into one if at all

Whether or not he was being honest is up for debate. I'm just relaying what I heard.

What did he look like because i think he was in my local gw not to long ago ?

He's 5'9" or so, thin, grayish hair, white, pretty average looking, etc. Name is Mark if that helps.

Mark Wells, this guy:

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=39352308&ticker=GAW:LN

He was previously the head of sales.

Chowderhead wrote:AoE, I hope that is a joke.

PLEASE tell me that that is a joke. If that is true, I'm never setting foot in a GW again.

Of course it's not a joke.

Any Tyranid player with a Tervigon, Flyrant, or Tyrannofex is immediately suspected because GW don't make any of those models.

Hold on now, lemme get this straight:

Someone can make business decisions I don't like and still be a nice guy???


Shocking.

Wells is the puppet to Kirby.

Nothing new, move along citizens before you get purged as a heretic.

Hi all.
Why am I reminded of an episode of 'Yes Minister.'
'Of course we want to get right behind them Minister ,show our total support and understanding.Because if we are going to stab them in the back , being right behind them is the best place to be...'

TTFN

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Mark Wells, this guy:

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=39352308&ticker=GAW:LN

That, more than anything, explains pricing.