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Other than still hoping for a Kislev & Dogs of War MTO run, I've kept up with the old world releases and other than one or two things I've either skipped or that were constantly out of stock, I now just don't feel the need to keep buying anything especially if kits are about to see another 4% increase. The old world kits increased in cost not so long ago as it was, and as a good percentage of them are 20+ years old as it is, the value just isn't there. This price rise would see standard infantry kits push past the €70 per set.

Plenty of people will still buy them at the new price and then ditch them on the 2nd hand stores 2 months later, so if I really feel I need some additional stuff I can pick them up at 50% off. And really, after 30+ years of collecting WFB stuff, I really don't care about 'supporting GW directly' to keep the game alive again. If they kill it off because of poor sales, its in my favour as lots of people will dump their collections on the cheap again like during the end times.

I think its good of GW to let me know its time again to give them another nice long break from the weekly FOMO ordering and start checking out some other games for a bit whilst I go back to painting backlog once again. Being able to buy regular old world kits from GW was always an expensive convenience and was never going to be a long term and financially rewarding part of the hobby.

MaxT wrote:
I hope you write just as long posts about every other company you ever buy a product from every time they change their prices.

No, but I do discuss it to death with my wife when my electricity company, oil company, and food prices go up every few months. If those had a populated forum that I frequented on a daily basis I would (probably) write long posts about them as well. In fact, the oil goes up and down daily and we often monitor it to catch the best deals and if there was a forum to catch the best offers, I'd be there as much as I'm on here!

Maybe not every time they change their prices as I'd be there doing it way more often than I would be here! The big difference is that I can't live without those things and they are unavoidable costs and very hard to lower. We attempted to lower our electric bill during the huge markups during covid, doing the full blown 'turn off every device when not in use, turn off lights when not in the room etc etc.' and it lowered the bill by about €1 per bill. Not at all worth all the hassle and worry.

But Gw/Hobby products have the advantage of seeing huge price hikes, but there being alternatives and huge ways to cut the costs to still be able to enjoy the hobby without spending the money GW demands. Being able to discuss it helps, the forum is advertising a lot of alternatives after all. Even purely sticking to GW games/models doesn't mean you can't save some money.