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 jonolikespie wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Achaylus72 that is not a fair comparison, MTG is about the Game while GW is about selling models, and it Cards Vs Models totally different things

Ignoring the cards to model thing the indi store sold a lot more than the GW store that opened next to it because that store sells at 15% off.

GW spend a LOT of money keeping those stores open and opening next to a FLGS is a clearly aggressive move to try and muscle them out.

Everything about that is bad for GW.

If I were GW I would arrange for that partner store to have sudden supply troubles or use ridiculous minimum unit box quotas. that will teach them!

Errr... in a second thought, why that sounds familiar

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Achaylus72 that is not a fair comparison, MTG is about the Game while GW is about selling models, and it Cards Vs Models totally different things

Ignoring the cards to model thing the indi store sold a lot more than the GW store that opened next to it because that store sells at 15% off.

GW spend a LOT of money keeping those stores open and opening next to a FLGS is a clearly aggressive move to try and muscle them out.

Everything about that is bad for GW.

If I were GW I would arrange for that partner store to have sudden supply troubles or use ridiculous minimum unit box quotas. that will teach them!

Errr... in a second thought, why that sounds familiar

M.

I think when they try that in Australia (not apparently uncommon) they simply cripple themselves. They overestimate their own worth with that whole 'we are the hobby' thing and when a FLGS can't get GW stock in most players (going just by what I have personally seen and heard around Oz) simply stay with their FLGS but switch to one of the other popular games there.

Could we say GW plc is a monkey throwing poo at its fans.(Some like that sort of thing!)

But GW plc sees itself as the King Kong of table top minature gaming heroically batting away enemy fighter planes from the top of their ivory tower.

Mixing metaphors after mixing drinks last night might not be such a good idea...

I was being sarcastic. Saw it done in Spain years ago tho.

M.

 snurl wrote:
They'll hope for free government bailout money.

The headless chicken has to land in the correct spot though...

 Vermis wrote:

that is why they are killing off Warhammer: Fantasy in 2019 and just having WH.40,000.

Uhm... Source?

Look at what is happened in the past and what is happening now. Why all of a sudden we get Nagash. Nagash is code for the end of times right? wrong. Nagash is code for the final edition of Warhammer: Fantasy. 9th edition is the last edition to be release. 10th Edition was to the last but GW have brought this forward to 9th. Simply put GW have construded it such as Fantasy has been in relative tern very poorly supported as opposed to its stablemate 40,000, explain why Bretonnians have not had an upgrade in 10 years and now information of the Green Knight has been released, why in Nagash the Elven Kin are to perish and be wiped off the map. Also Lizardmen are to come extinct. This decision was made by the Board of Executives and was not for general release. A report I saw spoke of the real reason and this is because WH: 40,000 will be the central tenant for it's future.

Look at why Nagash has been released and to that it makes sense.




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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Achaylus72 that is not a fair comparison, MTG is about the Game while GW is about selling models, and it Cards Vs Models totally different things

Actually it is a fair comparison. M:TG is a table top battle game played with cards, while WH is a table top game played with both plastic (and FC) and cards, none the less they are both the same in that regards.

Also I did some looking at what GW does in Australia. Get this, all GW shut at least 2 days a week, this equates to a total of 3744 total days closed collectively, add the hours lost in closures for lunch that equals a further 390 days in lost customers for a grand total of 4134 days of not opening its door for trade, this equates to something like 11 stores being closed during the year.

Yes GW knows what is doing.

Well, at this point i can see 9th being the final edition before it all goes tits-up. But that's just cynicism and observation talking.

I think there's a massive difference between M:TG and WH, though. They're the same in that they're both tabletop games, i'll give you that.

It also ties in with GW designing WHF out of Warhammer World, you can't really have a visitor centre in the theme of a dead game.

Or they just wanted a new look...

I am currently doing a list of what GW have produced since September 2012, so far a I can reveal that as of last Saturday 7th February 2015 that GW have done this.

This list excludes Hobbit/Lord of the rings.

New Boxed kit: 102 new boxed models
Plastic Clamshell/Blister Type: 51 These include both brand new Plastic and Citadel Finecast
Rehashed: 80 repackaged kits, these are boxed sets with old and/or new individual figures.

I have remembered that there have been dead periods as well. Ill look at this new addition and report back later.

This is why GW is losing, try this for size. If GW had concentrated on new kit instead of rehashing older models, they, GW could have fully released both Sisters of Battle and Bretonnians, include Tau/Chaos Space Marines/Chaos Daemons/Orks and Eldar.

Yes GW that's what we want more dead periods and rehash stuff not new kit that you could actually sell, by the way GW, rehashed boxed sets sell worse than anything else.

 Achaylus72 wrote:


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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Achaylus72 that is not a fair comparison, MTG is about the Game while GW is about selling models, and it Cards Vs Models totally different things

Actually it is a fair comparison. M:TG is a table top battle game played with cards, while WH is a table top game played with both plastic (and FC) and cards, none the less they are both the same in that regards.

Also I did some looking at what GW does in Australia. Get this, all GW shut at least 2 days a week, this equates to a total of 3744 total days closed collectively, add the hours lost in closures for lunch that equals a further 390 days in lost customers for a grand total of 4134 days of not opening its door for trade, this equates to something like 11 stores being closed during the year.

Yes GW knows what is doing.

I don't think you got the Joke,