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If you add it to your cart, though, it shows as 'no longer available'


They also still have the big banner add running on the front page saying that it's sold out.

Ah, cool. My mistake.

It shouldn't be a limited run anyway. It's a great game with great models and a great ruleset. The best part is though, that unlike the rest of their games it doesn't require any sort of periodic release and update schedule to stay green. They just need to slow production to a trickle to satisfy post initial demand and make money.

I cant see why they wouldn't have an second release. I mean, they have the design and all of the product pieces completed. I'm sure that in a couple of years there will be more people wanting it.

They could only release another edition of Space Hulk (in the UK anyway) if it was significantly different to the one they have just put out.

Effectively they would have to start from scratch, as the edition just released was marketed as limited edition, this was the reason so many people bought in to it.

If they just re-released the same thing again there could be a case for claiming they had obtained money under false pretences.

This is great guys, never would have guessed you all like controversey so much. Keep posting or the little voices in my head will get really, really mad...

H.B.M.C. wrote:I went to the 'Gaming' Menu, chose Space Hulk. Available for £57 or whatever the price is.

If you "add to cart" it says "No Longer Available".

Thanks KK. Insaniak dealt with that exact post of mine 4 days ago.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Thanks KK. Insaniak dealt with that exact post of mine 4 days ago.

The remaining stocks of the game were put in the retail stores both in the UK and the US, so it's no longer available in the UK or US online stores. US GW stores, at least some of the stores near me, have at least a dozen copies each sitting on the shelves waiting patiently for buyers. I wouldn't expect a second run of this game any time soon, it will be weeks or even months till all the remaining copies of Space Hulk are sold.

Tim the Biovore wrote:I hear they are lying about just one run off. A second or third has been predicted by unofficial people. Please let me know if there isn't.

I heard that some scientists said that a huge meteor is not likely to hit the Earth anytime soon. A huge meteor striking the Earth has been predicted by some unofficial people. Please let me know if that isn't going to happen.

Pathetic sarcasm there. "Yes, we are all going to die a horrible, horrible death".

Tim the Biovore wrote:"Yes, we are all going to die a horrible, horrible death".

I blame Jervis.

Unless he Jervisifies the meteor until it caves in on itself.

Jervis didn't cause the meteor...
or did he...


This thread has descended to madness,
well done, 3 pages.

Makaleth wrote:This thread has descended to madness

I blame Jer... oh... already said that.

Sheesh, we should change the name 'DakkaDakka' to '40k LOLnet"

I would pay upwards of 200 dollars for a Deluxe box set of Warhammer quest and i would probably pay it multiple times.


It's such a fun game :(.


Please release this next year.


edit:

I wish specialist would release the rules for it all my boxes were destroyed during Katrine :(

Well there is one possibility we haven et discussed yet. Overruns. The game was printed in China, and Chinese client manufacturing is rife with problems and franjkly cant be trusted.

Overrunning is one of those problems, acentuated by thwe fact the item has a high value and artificial rarity.

During overrunning the factory produces extra copies out of hours which end up on the black market (now eBay). All this dosh goes into the factory managers pockets.

I wont say it will happen, but I can say it can happen. Overrunning is a big problem, fortunately GW is rather small and is not the sort of stuff that usually gets overrunned. For that you get TV spinoff toys electronics and branded clothing.

Its essentially bootleg manufacture, but with a twist, it uses the same factories and material and is thus indestinguishable from the 'genuine' article.

Tethyr13 wrote:1)
... Maybe a new LOTR board/mini game...

Not really necessary, I mean, it was a movie and most of the actual exciting parts you can already buy. But it might work with the Hobbit, better known as 'the battle of five armies'.

Orlanth wrote: The game was printed in China, .

Don't think the board pieces were.

This is great guys, never would have guessed you all like controversey so much. Keep posting or the little voices in my head will get really, really mad...

Can we take this to mean then that the initial post was in fact BS and you haven't heard any actual rumour other than some guy who knows nothing about GW, this game's production and their future intent, randomly said so then ?

Me, My Friend and a GW Staff member were talking about Space Hulk being limited edition. GW came out and said they had to make a new box (some releases ie Stompa and Baneblade were delayed because they didnt want to make a new box) which would of cost money and that they had to buy a seperate cast for the space hulk minis which the GW employee said was really expensive, then they have all the card and plastic pieces which may have been outsourced but skill cost. We concluded that £60 might not be enough to make a profit, or if it did not a high enough profit per unit as they usually do so we said they're release it again, maybe with different and 'not quite as good' board pieces and a more standard box.

Or they'll release the minis seperately...

Can we take this to mean then that the initial post was in fact BS and you haven't heard any actual rumour other than some guy who knows nothing about GW, this game's production and their future intent, randomly said so then?

No it is not. I kept it secret until I finally posted something good and tried to keep a good reputation amongst you people. But this will probably break it. Anyway, I am constantly trying to find stuff which needs clarification or is very interesting. This particular post I find is both.

i would love to see Hero Quest and Space crusade get a nice revamp, and go on general release, in my youth i spent HOURS upon HOURS playing them with friends/family.
epic games and its nice to have the whole thing there in the box, the expansions were fantastic too.
if only eh?

Tarondor wrote:Me, My Friend and a GW Staff member were talking about Space Hulk being limited edition. GW came out and said they had to make a new box (some releases ie Stompa and Baneblade were delayed because they didnt want to make a new box) which would of cost money and that they had to buy a seperate cast for the space hulk minis which the GW employee said was really expensive, then they have all the card and plastic pieces which may have been outsourced but skill cost. We concluded that £60 might not be enough to make a profit, or if it did not a high enough profit per unit as they usually do so we said they're release it again, maybe with different and 'not quite as good' board pieces and a more standard box.

Or they'll release the minis seperately...

I'm sure they made money on Space Hulk.

It's clear that 90% of people who wanted Space Hulk pre-ordered it, which is why there are still copies sitting in retail. I'm sure those copies will sell gradually, but there won't be much demand for a re-issue.

It wouldn't make sense to sell the limited edition at a loss in the hope of making a profit on sales of a slightly changed unlimited edition.

I doubt they will release the figures separately as they would compete in the market with existing GW kits.

Flashman wrote:Think the shareholders would be bemused as to why a product that sold out within a few days/weeks of release was not given a second run.

+1

I would bet they have giant pallets in a warehouse stacked with the second release all ready to go.

There probably is.

CT GAMER wrote:

Flashman wrote:Think the shareholders would be bemused as to why a product that sold out within a few days/weeks of release was not given a second run.

+1

I would bet they have giant pallets in a warehouse stacked with the second release all ready to go.

Yeah, right. The stock holders would be angrier about stock sitting around, tying up money. Space Hulk was a high investment, low return product. Thats why GW doesn't want more than a single run. They probably only make a 10-20% profit (after costs) on this as opposed to the 30-40% they get off normal sets. So moving resources away from Space Hulk and back to other 40k sets will make them more money for the same amount of effort. Thats why they don't want to continue space hulk.

Lets take the baneblade for example; it probably costs GW only $40 or so to make a $100 set. Space Hulk costs closer to $60 to make a $100 set, but space hulk has alot of work being done outside of GW so that cost to GW isn't necessarily fixed. Additionally there are that many more parts, many more places for defects to occur, making it that much more an undertaking to produce.

You see it as, space hulk, "its done" and "they can make more". GW sees it as "we can make more space hulk or we can make a (insert your favorite armies dream unit)." With GW's limited amount of capital they can't tie it up in a product they don't intend to support.

I'd be happy if they sold the minis direct order. I'd pay $50 for another batch of 12 terminators, and I don't even play BA. Frankly, I'd prefer they run the minis in their standard grey plastic.

I don't see a new edition being released anytime soon. By making it a truly limited edition, they keep interest. And it means that next year, if they want to do Warhammer Quest, Man O' War, the Armageddeon boardgame, etc. - they can make those limited edition, and people will buy it because it's limited. If they issue a second printing of SH in 6 months, none of us GW junkies will accept future 'limited editions' as being 'limited', we don't buy it immediately, and they're stuck sitting on stock and not turning a profit.

It's much more profitable for GW to keep it as a one-and-done printing, both for SH and any future games they'd choose to do in that fashion.

As a side bar, I finally opened up my SH box last night. Wow, they packed that thing tighter than a...er....uhm...Scrooge's wallet. Yeah, that's what I meant.

That I see as the most likely thing. I think if they could break up the set between marines and nids it'd do better than just one big lot. If they did, it'd probably be a direct only set... however they'd probably fit into the slim boxes of the same perimeter.