MeanGreenStompa wrote:Hawkins wrote:But they are a well known name and sucsessfull, and that i think is the heart of it, in this day and age, sucsess breeds contempt and hatered.
You're suggesting tall poppy syndrome where none exists. I do not resent the fluff being everywhere or the product being widespread or the dominance of the system over others (although variety is good for the hobby).
It is Games Workshops behaviour, that is what incites many of us to anger.
It is the way in which
GW behaves like the mighty mega-corp it would love to be (and is not), they think they are Weyland/Yutani.
It is the arrogance and contempt the company now treats it's own customers with, openly stating in their shareholders reports a total disregard or even basic respect for the customer.
It is the way in which they can charge 4 times the price for a model due to it's lack of application in the armies they designed for it.
It is the elevation of price for as long as they can continue to gain profit despite alienating their wider customer base in a kind of 'if you loved me you'd swallow' selfishness, even during a time of massive economic recession.
It is their inability to be honest, in a climate and time where other companies have discovered the benefits of being more open and approachable, talking to a
GW staff member is like talking to a religious fanatic.
It is their scrapping of their own forums, withdrawing yet further into an ivory tower of 'We're great! Yeah! And if your saying thinks about us we don't like, we won't be listening, la la la!!1!'
It is their consistency in writing very poor rules for their primary game systems then smoothing over it with a glib 'play how you like it, it's just guidelines' just as long as you keep buying what they are interested in, miniatures and the sale of them.
It is their manufacture of scenery and then insisting you shouldn't make your own things but buy moar of the product!!
It is their blind and constant insistance that everyone should buy space marines and producing a massive range for space marines and creating many variant armies for space marines, even as they scrapped the variant armies for everyone else...Then they cry out 'look, everyone buys marines, lets make moar!!1!'.
It is their inability to maintain a decent schedule with codices and support for other armies and leaving their 'abortioned' armies out in the dust, despite people paying hundreds or thousands of pounds on them.
It is their inability to support previous (now specialist) games, creating them, selling them and then resenting having to support them.
It is their blind nerve selling a 'hobby support magazine' with no fething content, for the price of a novel when in truth it is a buying catalogue, like the ones for plants you get with the TV guide, several pages of which are taken up by their designer/guru in chief instructing you on how great everything is and that you need to buy moar!!1!.
It is the bloated arrogance of the last financial statement openly stating they would bring the price of the plastics up to match the price of the metals (the metals were hiked due to a 'tin crisis' several years ago and never brought back in line) so the plastics will eventually match the 'emergency' prices of the metals.
It is their greed and contempt for us that drives us to hate them. It is the price of goldswords. It is the loss of ordering bitz.
It is the death of games workshop 'the hobby company' and the rise of games workshop 'the product at all costs'.
