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Saw this over on B&C: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=233471&st=0

Spend 100 euros and you can reroll a dice in a GW store.
Spend 250 euros and you can reroll a dice at an official GW tournament!

Woohoo!

Something Wycked said it best

..... That is insane. If they're going to start letting people buy victory, the game is dead.

"Oh, I didn't get that game critical roll? Well, good thing I have more money than you. Re-roll."

Kind of silly? Or genius? You decide, I guess.

Those rerolls are the finest rerolls in wargaming.

Can you return your reroll for a new one if it's miscast?

Must be a joke.

They've done this before a few times. I have no idea why, but it cropped up during the summer time in the previous events too.

Maybe they see more 'new' players during the summer and try to offer some kind of incentive(silly as it looks to us) to people who buy their stuff in the shop rather than online?

Either way. It's always weird.

Didn't they do something like this during the DE release, or before it? Where depending on how much you spent you got an amount of cards that let you do stuff like rerolls.

Disgusting.

I think Dakka members should adapt the same business acumen. For 100 Euros, HMBC could state one good thing about GW, for 150, Ailaros could admit that he likes autocannons, and for 300 Euros, Kan could allow something glaringly wrong in 40k Background to slide!

I've seen things like this for tournaments that are also food drives or charity events, but how actually legit is this?

Can any players in Spain verify this?

Better make that 500 Euros and something only slightly wrong.

It's 1500 for something glaringly wrong.

Kanluwen wrote:Better make that 500 Euros and something only slightly wrong.

It's 1500 for something glaringly wrong.

How much will it take to make it ok for Blood Angels to bro-fist with Necrons?

Kanluwen wrote:Better make that 500 Euros and something only slightly wrong.

It's 1500 for something glaringly wrong.

Kan, for 1500 euros, I'd expect you to begin slurping upon the Graple haterade for GW, and become a hardcore PP and CHS apologist, instead.

Uh, I don't think anyone can afford that image being posted.

Now, a rant about Ward's fluff while citing 1d4chan will cost you 3500E but you only get to use one of his alleged fluff violations and it can't be one constantly hollered about.

Necros wrote:Can you return your reroll for a new one if it's miscast?

That's pretty funny.

Actually, I think it is so they can sell this product.

I believe it's like a launch-bonus.

Man, GW sure know how to entice customers with a special offer.

How much dya need to spend for an automatic victory?

Lame idea. Not a fan.

I believe it's a joke...

150 euros for free delivery. Why do you need free delivery if you're at the store buying it?

Not sure if serious

Cant find my reaction pic but....

not sure if serious.

If this is true, my thoughts on GW just took another dip southward. if not, its not very funny considering what they have been doing.

If you pay me 100 euro directly I might let you reroll one die at my events. For every car payment of mine you make you can reroll 1 die! What a bargain

airsoftmanic wrote:Cant find my reaction pic but....

not sure if serious.

If this is true, my thoughts on GW just took another dip southward. if not, its not very funny considering what they have been doing.

Once again. Even if it is serious, it's not like "You pay 100 Euros to buy a reroll".

It's "If you spend 100 Euros at a GW shop, in one visit, you get a little card that lets you do a reroll".

As has been said: this isn't new. They've done this before, and that's how it's always been done. It only applies to GW stores, and if I remember right it was a case of "The reroll will not actually affect the outcome of the game, it's just a fun little thing you can do to try to erase that 1 from your memory".

Kanluwen wrote:

Once again. Even if it is serious, it's not like "You pay 100 Euros to buy a reroll".

It's "If you spend 100 Euros at a GW shop, in one visit, you get a little card that lets you do a reroll".

As has been said: this isn't new. They've done this before, and that's how it's always been done. It only applies to GW stores, and if I remember right it was a case of "The reroll will not actually affect the outcome of the game, it's just a fun little thing you can do to try to erase that 1 from your memory".

Sounds like a desperate attempt to get people to spend in store. "Hey, I'm afraid were 15% more expensive here than online, but spend with us and you'll get a free re-roll! Not bad value, eh? Hold on, where are you going?"

hey, guys, I made a funny! Laugh with me.

Also, this is a joke.

however, if I'm spending 200$ at a gamercon, then hellz yes I want to skip FW waiting lines

that one is worth it.

But if lots of peeps buys lots then there will be a queue avoidance queue, so you need to spend more to avoid queueing in the queue avoidance queue.

Hope that is clear.

Note the cultural difference. We Brits enjoy a good queue so there is no point pushing that one in Blighty!

This sort of thing is pretty standard. The GW nearest me just wrapped up a 2 month campaign with bonuses. If you purchased a unit in the store to use in the campaign, you got to pick a random card from a deck. Each card corresponded to a bonus... +1S, reroll attacks, etc. There were a ton of different bonuses. That unit would keep the bonus throughout the campaign.

Everyone had fun. No one complained about having to "buy victory". The campaign rewarded those who supported the store by making purchases, yet excluded no one. It was a great success.


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zedmeister wrote:Sounds like a desperate attempt to get people to spend in store. "Hey, I'm afraid were 15% more expensive here than online, but spend with us and you'll get a free re-roll! Not bad value, eh? Hold on, where are you going?"

Keep in mind that online stores don't offer free hobby advice, tables to play on, tables to paint on or a hobby community to become a part of. Not taking these things into consideration in your argument makes your argument weak. If you're the kind of person who has no intention of taking advantage of the hobby advice, gaming tables, painting tables or hobby community, then by all means shop online. Also, retail stores exist to make money. Everything they do is geared towards making money. To expect otherwise is naive. Of course offering a free reroll is an attempt to make more money. It probably worked with some people and not with others, just like every other marketing ploy out there.

DarkCorsair wrote:I believe it's a joke...

150 euros for free delivery. Why do you need free delivery if you're at the store buying it?

You can buy them in advance as coupons.

I've got a laser copier-printer that does both sides at once in full colour.