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xttz wrote:

Mr Hyena wrote:

You can thank new line cinema for this. Since GW got the license agreement for the hobbit only because they agreed to crack down on their information leeks.

This is interesting. So its New Line Cinema's fault?

It's nice to see how they're so keen to stop leaks about a movie whose book was published SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

That everyone and their brother knows the story already makes it MORE important to contain leaks, not less so. What will make casual fans want to see the movie when they already know exactly what happens is HOW they do Smaug, HOW they do the battle of the five armies, HOW they do the riddle game. The more information you leak, the less potential viewers need to actually see the movie.


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I started reading this "interview" and decided I would rather eat a shotgun shell. Luckily, trying to read that awful format temporarily lobotomized me and I couldn't figure out how to do it.

God DAMN that was awful...

Howard A Treesong wrote:I can't believe people can accept the line that secrecy is used to stop list sales of products going out of production. Or that these two describe it as reasonable, they seem a bit on the kool-aid throughout as though GW can do no wrong.

Yes it stops GW losing money in the months before a rerelease but that's all it is there to do, look after their assets and not their customers. It's plain dishonest and the equivalent of planned obsolescence to sell you something knowing you'll need a new edition in a matter of months. And these rulebooks aren't cheap. It's dishonest, even Wizards of the Coast have made a press release that D&D is having a 5th edition in the planning stages, but GW will sell you stuff with a denial and a smile today knowing that the next edition is probably already in stages of finalisation and only 6 months away from the shelves.

Or they could do what battle front does, when a new Version comes out if you have a hardback book, you bring it into a retailer who stamps it or puts a sticker on it and you get a free mini-rule book like AOBR or Battle for Macragge, except it's a full rulebook just mini-sized.

HA what planet am I on GW give something away

Thees89 got a lot of these, but I'm going to chime in on number 4.

Basically, the number one question we would get asked is "When is x coming out?" I mean, it was like a hundred to one the most common question we'd hear from both retailers and gamers. People always wanted to know what was coming out next. And that's reasonable!

Games Workshop's policy is not to release information farther than one month out, for a valid business reason: the company doesn't want you saving your money until next month, they want you to spend it NOW.

AND next month.

It is just this sort of thinking that loses business. I have seen it, and I am fairly certain that other wargamers have as well. I saw an unscrupulous GW employee sell a customer an IG Guard codex a few months before the new codex was due out. Shortly after the new dex came out the guy dropped the game. Another win for GW.

If GW is planning a new product that supersedes an older one, then they could do what most other major companies do and discount the soon to be obsolete item. Selling customers the old item will just make them mad.

Also, building an army is usually something that takes time and planning. To buy suboptimal units (in terms of sculpt or gameplay) simply because they are available is detrimental to most peoples' enjoyment of the game. If a particular unit is coming out then it is GWs best interest to inform its customers of that so that far ahead of time so that they can get items that best fit their army.

If GW is tired of not being able to sell certain units then they should make more balanced games and codicies.