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I am done buying 40k stuff

Warhammer Fantasy on ebay and elsewhere, Forge World as it's cheaper than GW these days, Mantic a lot, Reaper, Troll Forged and maybe Banebeasts if I save up a lot

i am definatelly going to try out infinity...i can't stop thinking about it and i love GitS so i have to get into it sooner or later.

Also malifaux looks really cool so i'll look into that.

But i will still get occasional 40k stuff, the odd blister here or there maybe a couple more things depending on how my list evolves, but i'm very close to havenig a completed army now so i guess we will see.

Continuing my fantasy chaos, O&G and empire armies (had to rebuild all from scratch), ignoring marines for a bit (don't need anything else for BT or CFs, and considering starting a Khador WM army, especially with that gorgeous summer deal. Does anybody have a good reason why I shouldn't pick up WM? Cuz right now my judgement is slipping, and having a full army for $125 is gravy.

A single new ork flyer. That will most likely be it. It just looks fun to play. After that, I am not sure anything in a GW line. Most likely will continue to expand my Malifaux or Dystopian Wars.

Ill stay with the "GW hobby", though I plan on doing more scratchbuilding and even start using proxies. I already ordered a 1:48 Hobby Boss KV tank for my orks, its a vehicle the size of Leman Russ and yet costs just about 10 USD

Malifaux, and hopefully (finally) buy myself a new bike and cycling gear. As many other posters have said, I've got a couple of 40k armies and one Fantasy one (all finished), and really don't want / can't afford to start another. To be honest, even the current game system is pushing me further into skirmish-level games, which I enjoy quite a lot more than watching my wood elves being beaten back by steadfast hordes

Forgeworld all the way, I did not planned on spending that much money on GW stuff anyways (mostly supplies) and I found the ideal website for all my bits need.

Definitely:
- Infinity, including loads of stuff to finish off a board and try and make it like a 'living city' (so civilians, security and police forces etc.) as well as a few more factions!
- The Sedition Wars kick starter (both for itself, and to use some of the minis with Infinity)
- Mantic Kings of War army (Orcs)

If money/time allows:
- Mid-war FoW
- Bushido/Malifaux/Dust

Same as usual. Tyranids for 40k, Haqqislam for Infinity.

I'm actually planning a Space Marine army as well now that within a few purchases my Tyranids will be 'done' enough to move onto something new. Granted it'll mostly be Forgeworld stuff in that Space Marine army.

6th Edition 40K. Maybe start an Ogre army, just 20% slower than I could have this year.

Same thing I have been spending my hobby budget on for the last couple of years... nothing GW but just misc models from other companies and more recently Infinity. Just spent some money on some Infinity terrain and a couple of gaming mats.

Have pretty much completed all the purchases I need for my marines, so no real plans to buy any more bar the odd impulse/forgeworld purchase.

My tau are sitting in a box waiting for an update. If the new codex drops and is decent, I may get some of the new units to round it out.

My IG army is unfinished and I can't justify the spending I'd need to do on Hydras, chimeras and valkyries to make it work. Half of this stuff is still on sprue as I hadn't got to the stage of having enough to be competitive. With the price rise and a drop in enthusiasm I've given up on this army. I'll keep my painted stuff and some bits for scratchbuilding necromunda models and sell the rest.

I've bought Khador and Haqqislam starter packs in the last six months and intend to spend most of my time painting and playing with them.

In terms of new purchases, possibly might buy into the Sedition Wars starter pack, and other than that, terrain and Infinity. No new GW for the foreseeable.

40k.

At the end of the day, the people that are kicking off are unhealthily obsessed with the hobby. I have maybe 3000 points of SM, I don't see the point in buying much more because I never play games past 2k anyway.. so If I do end up buying more, its only going to be the odd model anyway.

I really don't understand people that have 30,000 points worth of models and what have you.. where the hell do you guys keep them all anyway!?

Will continue with 40K, just not going to start any new armies, so I have Guard and Orks and that will be it for the forseeable future.

Will still add to those two on occasion, but will also be refocusing a lot of time towards Mordheim, Infinity, and board games in general.

Have picked up a load of scenery this week from wayland due to their offer, plus finally got a Baneblade and Stompa, so with other bits and pieces I still need to put together I'm going to be pretty busy for the rest of the year.

The only other thing I can see me picking up this year, will be the 6th edition rulebook when it arrives, oh and Blood Bowl if that did appear at some point. Otherwise, my GW spending for 2012 is done.

Thinking about a new marine army using the IA10 seige army list and the forgeworld MK5 armour. Still pondering that one though.

From OP -

I've been looking for an excuse to try out many different games

From Seric's post-

will continue spending my money on future FoW armies

From Kaldor -

I've really got enough GW stuff to keep me going for, well, if I'm honest then I'll probably never even finish painting the many hundreds of unpainted models in my collection

From BOss -

I doubt my habits will change massively. I will continue buying Mantic

From Soldado -

have just about everything I would ever need for my Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Demons, Orks and IG

squig -

fter last years GW price rise I more or less said 'no' to buying a new GW army. I wrote this article on it.....
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/390346.page

Ross boy -

With the 10K of chaos Ive got, all I need to do Is pick up the new rule book and codex when they come out,
no more model buying for me,


Guys, that's just from page 1. What I've seen with the majority of posts both here and on other boards, the majority of people complaining about the price increase weren't going to buy anything anyway or they were just looking for an excuse to do something else, because GW was already overpriced and their economics aren't a fit for a massively expensive hobby.

I went to my FLGS yesterday and there was a dude there, known him a year...he hasn't bought ANYTHING in that year, he has his same SM chapter army...all painted. He never hobbies, all he does is enter tourneys and games. He'll go to the shop and sit at the hobby table until someone he knows wants to play.

Anyway, so we are all talking about the price increases, specifically about the Land Raider and he says. "prices are getting raised again!! I think I'm just going to quit...$75 for a land raider is just too much". To which I replied "You were going to buy a land raider?". And he said, after a pause "No, just sayin..."

If you think the price raise is too much, then buy something in the next week...if you think it's already overpriced now, then GW hasn't lost anything...cuz you weren't going to buy anyway.

That's mostly what I see. When I see the people "my spending will decrease"...ok, that should be a concern for GW. The vast majority of the people who don't buy stuff saying they still aren't going to buy stuff...it's just complaining for the sake of being a hater.

deggreg@yahoo.com wrote:Guys, that's just from page 1. What I've seen with the majority of posts both here and on other boards, the majority of people complaining about the price increase weren't going to buy anything anyway or they were just looking for an excuse to do something else, because GW was already overpriced and their economics aren't a fit for a massively expensive hobby... The vast majority of the people who don't buy stuff saying they still aren't going to buy stuff...it's just complaining for the sake of being a hater.

I'd love to start buying GW stuff again and it is not just the prices keeping me away; there are a number of GW policies/decisions which I do not agree with that made me feel that I no longer wanted to hand over my money to GW but would rather give it to other companies. My overall spending on gaming related products has not changed significantly, just where I spend it. GW are, because of the way they have behaved (or how I perceive them to have behaved), now missing out on the £X I would have spent with them which I now spend with other companies.

The latet price gouging just ensures that I am even less likely to give my money to GW than before. A simple fact. Just because you don't want to believe people can possibly see GW in a negative light doesn't mean the people voicing those opinions are haters complaining for the sake of it.

SilverMK2 wrote:

deggreg@yahoo.com wrote:Guys, that's just from page 1. What I've seen with the majority of posts both here and on other boards, the majority of people complaining about the price increase weren't going to buy anything anyway or they were just looking for an excuse to do something else, because GW was already overpriced and their economics aren't a fit for a massively expensive hobby... The vast majority of the people who don't buy stuff saying they still aren't going to buy stuff...it's just complaining for the sake of being a hater.

I'd love to start buying GW stuff again and it is not just the prices keeping me away; there are a number of GW policies/decisions which I do not agree with that made me feel that I no longer wanted to hand over my money to GW but would rather give it to other companies. My overall spending on gaming related products has not changed significantly, just where I spend it. GW are, because of the way they have behaved (or how I perceive them to have behaved), now missing out on the £X I would have spent with them which I now spend with other companies.

The latet price gouging just ensures that I am even less likely to give my money to GW than before. A simple fact. Just because you don't want to believe people can possibly see GW in a negative light doesn't mean the people voicing those opinions are haters complaining for the sake of it.

You don't spend $ on GW now and won't after the price increase...that was just my point. I don't agree with a TON of what GW does honestly, they replace good managers who know a ton about the hobby with people who have never run a business and don't even know/like the hobby because sales are sagging due to GW decisions and the economy...that's garbage, they've termied alot of solid people. They are closing a pretty busy GW store here in Washington, which sucks, because the manager went to run the bunker and they replaced him with someone who knew nothing about the hobby and has no passion for the hobby and I don't think has the ability to run a business. When I went to Games Day in LA a few years back, I met a few of the corporate guys...they didn't have the passion for the hobby and game that I'd expect, they were business people. That was a let down.

But all of this price complaining just smacks of hating for the sake of hating something you already hate. OK, you don't like GW's policies..you weren't buying anything before, still won't buy anything...point taken

Short answer: Battletech.

Long answer: The price increase is coming at a time when I am nearing completion on two of my three armies so I don't foresee too many GW purchases unless something particularly interesting catches my eye. That frees up my GW funds to indulge in my old love of `Mechs. IWM is going to have a great second half of 2012 thanks to me.

deggreg@yahoo.com wrote:What I've seen with the majority of posts both here and on other boards, the majority of people complaining about the price increase weren't going to buy anything anyway or they were just looking for an excuse to do something else, because GW was already overpriced and their economics aren't a fit for a massively expensive hobby.

I went to my FLGS yesterday and there was a dude there, known him a year...he hasn't bought ANYTHING in that year, he has his same SM chapter army...all painted. He never hobbies, all he does is enter tourneys and games. He'll go to the shop and sit at the hobby table until someone he knows wants to play.

Anyway, so we are all talking about the price increases, specifically about the Land Raider and he says. "prices are getting raised again!! I think I'm just going to quit...$75 for a land raider is just too much". To which I replied "You were going to buy a land raider?". And he said, after a pause "No, just sayin..."

If you think the price raise is too much, then buy something in the next week...if you think it's already overpriced now, then GW hasn't lost anything...cuz you weren't going to buy anyway.

That's mostly what I see. When I see the people "my spending will decrease"...ok, that should be a concern for GW. The vast majority of the people who don't buy stuff saying they still aren't going to buy stuff...it's just complaining for the sake of being a hater.

That is not really true in my case. I can't speak for others, but I have been looking for an excuse to get into other games for some time. I haven't though, because I consistently put my money into the two games I enjoy so much, 40k and WHF. I won't be putting much money into those systems any more. I was ready to spend quite a bit on new necron models this month, and three ork bommas. I've now decided to pick up only one ork bomma out of frustration with GW. The rest of my budget is getting redirected to other companies, whose systems, I've wanted to try for awhile. The chaos marine army I planned on starting when the new codex comes out is out of the question as well, unless GW at the very least, fix their finecast issues, and perhaps bring their miniatures costs in line with other companies.

deggreg@yahoo.com wrote:You don't spend $ on GW now and won't after the price increase...that was just my point.

This is a good point. maybe the question should be: "who was fine with the last price increase but is now quitting?" the answer is probably no one. Almost everyone in these multiple threads are the same voices who cried out last year and the year before and the threads are almost the exact same words with the same moral outrage.

GW has said 2/3rds of the customers of GW models *DONT EVEN PLAY THE GAME* which means people on a gaming forum looking for games to play are basically not GW's customerbase and really never were. Veteran players are not the focus and they know it. People who play tourneys but never buy anything are pretty common too.

And with GW's model release schedule... if your model isn't the focus, they really don't care. You really think they expect Tau players to be buying hundreds of dollars when they haven't released tau rules or models in years? And as soon as any of our individual armies get focus, all these people who swore they quit buying end up buying because "I want it and I should get things I want!" I know about 3-dozen ork players who swore they hate GW and will never buy another dime all equivocating on how they are maintaining their moral stance but still getting 3 ork jets next month.

Honestly, if you were really able to quit buying GW plasticrack, you already did. If you are still buying you probably always will.

beer

ergotoxin wrote:Ill stay with the "GW hobby", though I plan on doing more scratchbuilding and even start using proxies. I already ordered a 1:48 Hobby Boss KV tank for my orks, its a vehicle the size of Leman Russ and yet costs just about 10 USD

i was going to say, getting tons of Plasti-Card. but i guess im not the only one

deggreg@yahoo.com wrote:But all of this price complaining just smacks of hating for the sake of hating something you already hate. OK, you don't like GW's policies..you weren't buying anything before, still won't buy anything...point taken

So people can't voice the fact that they are not buying stuff from GW because they are not buying stuff from GW?

Nor do I "hate" GW by the way...

My orks don't need more models, beyond three ork bombers. I need to get the little buggers painted is all (and it's a BIG all... it should keep me busy for years at my painting speed...)

Pretty much the only GW models i buy these days are bought as tournament entry fees. Our local has an entry requirement that you buy 25+ $ of wargaming related stuff, and lately it's been non-gw stuff like WM, non-gw scenery etc.

I grew up with GW, and have been a majot contributor to their cashflow for many years, but i'm getting a little wowed by the cost these days.

I was going to finish out my DE, but after mathing out the costs i'm not. I'll buy the odd new model.

My Daemons are staying static. I may even sell/trade them to further my DE.

I will buy the new rules/codexes for my armies, as i play local tournaments where these are going to be needed, but i'll not be starting any new armies, and will only be buying occasional models for the ones i do have form here in.

Frankly even if they dropped their prices from OMG to just OUCH! i'd probably still cut back to just the odd model these days.

I quit Warhammer fantasy last year as I felt the new edition and the pushing of large monsters was no longer an interest to me, the value of the game was lower with an increased cost in models, so I cut my loses and ran.

I still pick up very occasional bits of fantasy, but this is only for my Mordheim games which I still play with earnest, and will be expanded into more warbands over the next year.

With 40K, Myself and Aura have cancelled an idea to started two new armies based off the new 40K box. Both armies would have easily climbed into 4-5K range over he next year or so at the very least. Now nothing.

I'm not going to stop the game entirely, enjoy playing it too much, but I will limiting my spending on GW stuff, and the cash I had will go elsewhere in the long run.

On saying that I have ordered about £350-400 worth of stuff this week from wayland and other sources. Saving myself well over £100 when comparing to the new prices. It was all stuff I have been considering for a long time, so thought what the hell.

nkelsch wrote:This is a good point. maybe the question should be: "who was fine with the last price increase but is now quitting?"

However, that's not the question that was asked, was it?

Almost everyone in these multiple threads are the same voices who cried out last year and the year before and the threads are almost the exact same words with the same moral outrage.

And almost every year, GW's sales figures decrease, only just covered by the increase in prices and payments from tie-ins such as computer games. Surprisingly many people don't use the internet to voice what they do/do not, will/will not be buying and doing - the silent majority just... stop/reduce their buying and a smaller number of newer players steps into the game leaving gaps in the ranks.

Aye that is another point, I don't believe the 2/3 don't play, or the other stat they band around, 90% of their store sales are from new players. At best that was accurate for their Lotr players, but as far as I can remember even when it was at its height it didn't out sell the main two systems.

They might say it, they might think it, but I don't believe it for a second.

Oh its this thread again. Where everyone proclaims they are quitting just after they finish X Y Z.