Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

nothing ruins a good rpg session more than being set up next to a gw tourny area where they are asking everyone to waaghh at the top of their lungs at regular intervals.

It ruins a lot of things. All the years I've been in the hobby I've never been a fan of the practice and I see plenty of other hobbyists in stores that are not so into it either, yet GW constantly pushes it at events even when the crowd is not really game for it. Even when the majority of a crowd is clearly not into doing it, employees often will push it to the point of distraction, ignoring the fact that the customers would be having more fun if they just let it pass and moved on with the game.

When an event is not specifically Ork related, the "waaggh" yelling makes even less sense. Thankfully, not everyone who plays these games is loud all the time nor do all of us Warhammer enthusiasts necessarily like to yell at the top of our lungs before every game. I wish GW would read their crowds a bit better and stop pushing the "yelling thing" so much, but after twenty years in the hobby I know it's futile to keep hoping for this. Hearing protection should not be essential equipment for playing tabletop miniatures games, but sadly, it really would come in handy quite often.

BrassScorpion wrote:

nothing ruins a good rpg session more than being set up next to a gw tourny area where they are asking everyone to waaghh at the top of their lungs at regular intervals.

It ruins a lot of things. All the years I've been in the hobby I've never been a fan of the practice and I see plenty of other hobbyists in stores that are not so into it either, yet GW constantly pushes it at events even when the crowd is not really game for it. Even when the majority of a crowd is clearly not into doing it, employees often will push it to the point of distraction, ignoring the fact that the customers would be having more fun if they just let it pass and moved on with the game.

When an event is not specifically Ork related, the "waaggh" yelling makes even less sense. Thankfully, not everyone who plays these games is loud all the time nor do all of us Warhammer enthusiasts necessarily like to yell at the top of our lungs before every game. I wish GW would read their crowds a bit better and stop pushing the "yelling thing" so much, but after twenty years in the hobby I know it's futile to keep hoping for this. Hearing protection should not be essential equipment for playing tabletop miniatures games, but sadly, it really would come in handy quite often.

QFT

BrassScorpion wrote:

nothing ruins a good rpg session more than being set up next to a gw tourny area where they are asking everyone to waaghh at the top of their lungs at regular intervals.

It ruins a lot of things. All the years I've been in the hobby I've never been a fan of the practice and I see plenty of other hobbyists in stores that are not so into it either, yet GW constantly pushes it at events even when the crowd is not really game for it. Even when the majority of a crowd is clearly not into doing it, employees often will push it to the point of distraction, ignoring the fact that the customers would be having more fun if they just let it pass and moved on with the game.

When an event is not specifically Ork related, the "waaggh" yelling makes even less sense. Thankfully, not everyone who plays these games is loud all the time nor do all of us Warhammer enthusiasts necessarily like to yell at the top of our lungs before every game. I wish GW would read their crowds a bit better and stop pushing the "yelling thing" so much, but after twenty years in the hobby I know it's futile to keep hoping for this. Hearing protection should not be essential equipment for playing tabletop miniatures games, but sadly, it really would come in handy quite often.

Goes against the GW sales mentality of A: upsaling and B: pushing. I worked inthe seattle bunker for a while and we were taught the GW principal of always standing next to the customer keeping them talking and pushing for an upsale. I have to say I hated that job truthfully cause seriously who likes employees over enthusiastically talking to them like children and when your going in for one specific thing trying to push everything else on you. I can see a freindly reminder at the registar for hobby supplies but the rest I mean COME ON>..... Insurance salesmen have more respect then they do.

Yeah, some salesmen don't know when to quit or how to read a customer. Fortunately, most of the GW employees in my area for the past few years are better than that and they do a better job of sensing when help is needed and when they might be in the way of a sale instead. For the past few years GW seems to be doing a better job with training and with whom they select in the first place as employees, at least in the stores I frequent.

Back on topic, I haven't seen a lot of news about the main topic elsewhere. I figured after someone posted this topic thread here there'd be a firestorm all over the US community if not farther out as well. I wonder what the reaction in the US hobby community will be once other forums pick this up now that someone on dakkadakka has made this Games Day news fairly well known.

who knows honestly. Personally im kinda annoyed about how evertime I go to the GW website to look and see if the chicago games day GD's are up they still havent posted them. I know their was the problem with that cheating painter but COME ON.

The single US Games Day for 2010 will be in Baltimore and apparently in August.

BrassScorpion wrote:The single US Games Day for 2010 will be in Baltimore and apparently in August.

Probably the same weekend as GenCon.

Empchild wrote:who knows honestly. Personally im kinda annoyed about how evertime I go to the GW website to look and see if the chicago games day GD's are up they still havent posted them. I know their was the problem with that cheating painter but COME ON.

They posted them a week or two ago actually... I had a thread about them fixing the haxxzors actually

mikhaila wrote:

ShadowCrescents wrote:I was told that if that were to happen, it is to make things centrally located. How can having GD in Baltimore be CENTRALLY located. Last time I checked, the central part of the US was in MO. We have a large enough place to have GD in our area AND we have enough retailers to have sales managed by them, and another reason is that people from all around the US would show up. Kinda doubtful that people on the west coast would make the trip out to the east coast for a ONE day event. That is just my two cents on that subject.

You have a GD in your area. It's called Adepticon.

I'd rather see the money spent on making Baltimore a better event, and hopefully go back to 2 days. They can throw support to Adepticon to make it better.

whats adepticon? down here in florida we don't have any GW stores, mabe having a gamesday here would boost sales at the local retailers and convince GW that florida is NOT just old farts (no offense. but we do have a thriving games community down here)

that and it would be more convincing to take the whole family on vacation and skip over to the orlando convention center for a day.