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Last year, as you all know, GW did a April fools, making "how to roll citadel dice". But there has been no april fools this year Maybe tomorrow, considering today is sunday. But, where is it?
Although it leaked a little early, they tricked some people into thinking they'd actually released models of Space Marines riding on the backs of wolves.
Groundh0g wrote:Although it leaked a little early, they tricked some people into thinking they'd actually released models of Space Marines riding on the backs of wolves.
Banning Australian customers from buying from webstores outside Australia, and subsequently many southern hemisphere gamers from buying from... well, anywhere.
'Fine'cast...
Black Library charging Australian customers substantially more than the rest of the world for digital downloads from a UK website.
Posting White Dwarf to subscribers on the release date...
Claiming that the way to build hype about your product is to not tell anyone about it...
'Fine'cast...
Frankly, I think that they would be struggling to top any of that for April Fools'...
Banning Australian customers from buying from webstores outside Australia, and subsequently many southern hemisphere gamers from buying from... well, anywhere.
'Fine'cast...
Black Library charging Australian customers substantially more than the rest of the world for digital downloads from a UK website.
Posting White Dwarf to subscribers on the release date...
Claiming that the way to build hype about your product is to not tell anyone about it...
'Fine'cast...
Frankly, I think that they would be struggling to top any of that for April Fools'...
Yep, that seems 'bout right. You forgot 'fine'cast
insaniak wrote:Banning Australian customers from buying from webstores outside Australia, and subsequently many southern hemisphere gamers from buying from... well, anywhere.
Except they didn't do that.
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While a bit redundant at this point it could be true that, given recent circumstances, GW was wary of trying to pull an April Fool's day joke... when many recent decisions are already worth of laughs.
This was great, though
Groundh0g wrote:Although it leaked a little early, they tricked some people into thinking they'd actually released models of Space Marines riding on the backs of wolves.
2012/04/02 03:47:11
Subject: Re:Where is Games Workshop's April Fools?
Don't worry an annual price hike is coming.....wait, what? That's not a joke?
A re-casted model in finecast makes it 20% more expensive overnight? It'll have pits and bubbles the old metal one didn't? And if I try to strip a Finecast model that's already painted, it'll essentially dissolve?
Yeah. Ha, ha...Aprils Fools. What....what?
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insaniak wrote:Banning Australian customers from buying from webstores outside Australia, and subsequently many southern hemisphere gamers from buying from... well, anywhere.
Except they didn't do that.
They didn't do what?
The new regional restrictions (theoretically) stop Australian customers from purchasing from anywhere outside Australia. And there have been quite a few comments made by people in other parts of the world without regional hobby stores now being unable to buy from the US or the UK thanks to that same regional policy.
insaniak wrote:Banning Australian customers from buying from webstores outside Australia, and subsequently many southern hemisphere gamers from buying from... well, anywhere.
Except they didn't do that.
They didn't do what?
The new regional restrictions (theoretically) stop Australian customers from purchasing from anywhere outside Australia. And there have been quite a few comments made by people in other parts of the world without regional hobby stores now being unable to buy from the US or the UK thanks to that same regional policy.
So which part were you contesting, exactly?
Again, no they didn't.
The embargo stops European retailers exporting products outside of the European Economic Area. There's store in the US (Dicebucket, ChaosOrc, Discount Games Store, The Warstore, and others) people in Australia and anywhere else in the southern hemisphere are quite free to order from. With the US base retail price plus the 20-30% discount they have, Australians and New Zealanders are still seeing 50-60% discounts.
That was my point of contention. What they did was stop European retailers exporting their product outside of the European Economic Area, not stop people in the southern hemisphere from ordering from anywhere else in the world. We're still free to hunt for bargains outside of Europe, which are still hugely discounted for us from the US.
Harriticus wrote:Finecast and new Necron fluff has been their ultimate April Fools over the last year.
You... you actually like the old fluff better?!?
Almost had me for a second, 16 more minutes of April fools
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To the OP, April Fools Day has never really been much of a corporate thing in the UK with the odd recent exception (FW). I mean who in this financial climate wants to be the joker with time on his hands to set something up?
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-Loki- wrote:What they did was stop European retailers exporting their product outside of the European Economic Area, not stop people in the southern hemisphere from ordering from anywhere else in the world. We're still free to hunt for bargains outside of Europe, which are still hugely discounted for us from the US.
That is admittedly different from what was originally reported, which was that this was going to be a worldwide policy. Although I can't help thinking that having it not be a worldwide policy actually makes it even more crazy... Sort of puts it on par with GW US's No Webcart policy on the lunacy scale.
The embargo stops European retailers exporting products outside of the European Economic Area. There's store in the US (Dicebucket, ChaosOrc, Discount Games Store, The Warstore, and others) people in Australia and anywhere else in the southern hemisphere are quite free to order from. .
I thought the only reason those stores you listed can sell to Aussies is because they ship opened boxes,
effectively making them 2nd hand?
-Loki- wrote:What they did was stop European retailers exporting their product outside of the European Economic Area, not stop people in the southern hemisphere from ordering from anywhere else in the world. We're still free to hunt for bargains outside of Europe, which are still hugely discounted for us from the US.
That is admittedly different from what was originally reported, which was that this was going to be a worldwide policy. Although I can't help thinking that having it not be a worldwide policy actually makes it even more crazy... Sort of puts it on par with GW US's No Webcart policy on the lunacy scale.
No again. Maybe when the rumours were circulating, but this is what Maelstrom put up when they were informed by GW.
Spoiler:
Games Workshop’s new Terms and Conditions Firstly, Games Workshop’s new Terms and Conditions, which come into force on the 31st of May 2011. These, among other things, restrict the sale of language products – i.e., rulebooks and codices that are not in English – and, most crucially of all, restrict the sale of all of their products to the European Union, although there are a couple of countries (such as Norway and Switzerland) that are geographically within Europe but not in the EU that we can still sell to.
The full list of countries that we can sell GW products to is as follows:
Obviously this means that all of our faithful Games Workshop customers from the Anglosphere – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States – as well as those from Brazil, Chile, Peru, Russia, Japan and South Korea (apologies for those countries I have missed out) will now miss out on our superb service and cheap prices, but I’m afraid the terms and conditions of our contract with Games Workshop mean that we have to say goodbye.
As you can see, it specifically restricts European stores from shipping outside of the European Economic Area, not people in the southern hemisphere ordering from the northern hemisphere, or Australians ordering from somewhere else, or any of the other comspiracy theories. The obvious intent was to stop Australians getting GW product cheap, but it didn't restrict us from ordering overseas, just European stores exporting to us.
Unless GW has the balls to put an embargo on the US restricting their outside trade (they won't), we have no problems ordering from the US.
LunaHound wrote:
-Loki- wrote: Again, no they didn't.
The embargo stops European retailers exporting products outside of the European Economic Area. There's store in the US (Dicebucket, ChaosOrc, Discount Games Store, The Warstore, and others) people in Australia and anywhere else in the southern hemisphere are quite free to order from. .
I thought the only reason those stores you listed can sell to Aussies is because they ship opened boxes, effectively making them 2nd hand?
No, that's why some of them get away with a shopping cart system (dice bucket and chaosorc - discount game store gets away with it by being an ebay store).
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-Loki- wrote:The obvious intent was to stop Australians getting GW product cheap, but it didn't restrict us from ordering overseas, just European stores exporting to us.
Well, the only other country we can order from that gives us ridiculous savings is the US.
Even GW don't have the stones to give them a trade embargo.
Ordering from US webstores is perfectly fine - H.B.M.C. made a small purchase from Dicebucket to give them a try (pretty sure it was him, anyway), and knows people who use Discount Game Store. Ordering from the US is completely fine.
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-Loki- wrote:Well, the only other country we can order from that gives us ridiculous savings is the US.
Even GW don't have the stones to give them a trade embargo.
But that's just the point... Given that the whole problem was supposedly people 'taking advantage' of exchange rates, not including the US just makes the policy completely pointless.
Making the regional thing worldwide would have been short-sighted and arrogant, but would have at least made some sort of business sense. So you really haven't given me any reason to remove it from my list of 'pranks'... now it just looks more ludicrous an idea than it did before.
I was never intending for you to remove it - it was a dumb thing to do, and makes no sense, as you said.
I merely wanted to point out what you actually wrote wasn't correct (and still isn't). It's just misinformation that might end up costing Australians, who end up believing it and buying locally when they can be saving lots of money ordering from the US.
Might be a good idea to change it to the correct information. It's no less bone headed, but might save some Aussies some money if they had the wrong impression.
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There still using last years April fools aren't they? Well that's what I thought Finecast was...
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Banning Australian customers from buying from webstores outside Australia, and subsequently many southern hemisphere gamers from buying from... well, anywhere.
'Fine'cast...
Black Library charging Australian customers substantially more than the rest of the world for digital downloads from a UK website.
Posting White Dwarf to subscribers on the release date...
Claiming that the way to build hype about your product is to not tell anyone about it...
'Fine'cast...
Frankly, I think that they would be struggling to top any of that for April Fools'...
Would you stop pre-empting me!!! Now I have nothing snarky to say as you've covered it all.
Wait! No.
GW charging for desktop wall papers. That's got to be a joke right? What about charging Australian customers more for said wallpapers? Does that count?
And another:
GW putting highly inflated (and completely imaginary) shipping prices on orders going from GWUS and GWUK to Oz (and Japan and a few other places). Like £60 shipping on a single pot of paint. That was hilarious.
AegisGrimm wrote:A re-casted model in finecast makes it 20% more expensive overnight?
100% more expensive if you're an Empire Knight-type guy on a horse.
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