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With all of the new codex and codex supplements that have been coming out I've been wondering why gw decides they want to make every book so damn expensive. I'm ok with paying $60.00 US for a codex but think paying $50.00 US for a "supplement" is a little pricey. What does dakka think?

With the amount of actual content in a supplement, I honestly think $20 is a fair price.

Here are my thoughts;

A codex supplement should have two versions. The first would be the rules only. It'd be like the mini rulebook; none of the fluff, just the meat and potatoes to game with. This version would be free/incredibly cheap. In a perfect world where I ride unicorns from one rainbow to another. Granted, many other companies do this, but I don't expect GW to do the same.

The second version would have fluff included. This I could stomach up to $30.

All personal thoughts and such, but I have a hard time justifying more than for a few dozen pages, especially in electronic format.

 Blacksails wrote:
Here are my thoughts;

A codex supplement should have two versions. The first would be the rules only. It'd be like the mini rulebook; none of the fluff, just the meat and potatoes to game with. This version would be free/incredibly cheap. In a perfect world where I ride unicorns from one rainbow to another. Granted, many other companies do this, but I don't expect GW to do the same.

The second version would have fluff included. This I could stomach up to $30.

All personal thoughts and such, but I have a hard time justifying more than for a few dozen pages, especially in electronic format.

This. Asking codex price for them doesn't make one inclined to run out and buy them. Most of the time they are just FOC reorganizations anyway.

The thing is and I don't think GW really thinks this through (imagine that) most players don't care about hard cover vs the "soft cover" of old. I know I for one used to buy EVERY codex when they were $22.00. They were fun to read fluff wise and it was good to know what other armies can do. But now.....NO WAY!. I only buy the ones for the armies I actually play (and I play a lot less armies than I used to also due to cost of models now). I still read all the codex's, I just read them from "other" sources.

 quickfuze wrote:
The thing is and I don't think GW really thinks this through (imagine that) most players don't care about hard cover vs the "soft cover" of old. I know I for one used to buy EVERY codex when they were $22.00. They were fun to read fluff wise and it was good to know what other armies can do.

I was thinking the same. A paperback codex would be perfectly fine if it dropped the price. I also wouldn't contemplate killing my gf's cat when it chews through a corner of the codex.

I purchased every 5th edition codex. My intention was to buy every 6th edition codex. I could deal with 30 to 35 bucks per ... 50 per book? Not a chance. I have perused all of the 6th edition books from ... eh hem, other sources. If a book REALLY intrigues me, I will buy it. Only 2 have thus far.

$15-20 for a supplement is about fair, these are done digitally and don't cost GW a lot of money and produce a fair amount of profit in that region. they can have some cool fluff in them ( farsight one was pretty darn good) but charging the same price for a supplement, that you do for the entire codex (which in my opinion they now overcharge for)? ........... well that takes some special logic

For a model company I simply can't believe how much GW wants me to spend on rules. Seriously, its obsurd. The hardcover infinity rulebook, which is entirely optional since they are happy to give me the pdf version for free, cost me 3/4th of what a supplement book from GW would, let alone the regular codex and main rulebook to go with it.

Now I just buy them used on Ebay, read them, resell on ebay.

I simply don't buy them at the outrageous price they are currently at.

 creeping-deth87 wrote:
With the amount of actual content in a supplement, I honestly think $20 is a fair price.

which most of it seems copy pasta from previous codex, not to mention the art.

I've only bought 1 ebook version, and a single hardback, in the past year.
I didn't even buy the SM codex as hardback, and that's my 2nd army of 3.

Depends on the supplement but honestly I think a codex itself should be no more than $30.

The Black Legion supplement is basically "Chosen are troops, here are a couple pages of artifacts and missions" so I wouldn't pay more than $5 for it.

$20 for the paperbacks was good and made me buy without hesitation.

$50 and now I'm here without two current codexes for armies I own

Hardcover book with lotz of pretty piktures? $30 seems fairish.
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