GW "Psychic Powers" App Released

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**Shas'o_Longshot**

UK link http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=22200010a

So, I was considering buying this until I saw the price.

For those who don't want to look it up, it's £7.99. That's $AU12.27, $US12.96 and €9.88.

EDIT: Perhaps this belongs in News&Rumours. I'm not sure, so I'll leave it for the mods to decide?

**avedominusnox**

I own an iPad2 and I m not even bothering to check in if GW has anything interesting in iBooks.
The prices are sick and I m not willing to pay a Pennie for anything. The psychic powers
Were pretty appealing for me, though when I saw the price it changed me mind...

**filbert**

So essentially this is the digital equivalent of the psychic card deck that they sell? That is priced at ~ £8 too IIRC.

**Steelmage99**

Oh....Apple Tyranny only....Yeah, not going to happen!

**Kaptajn Congoboy**

If you want a deck of Psychic Power cards and like to use your phone in gaming, I don't see why a similar price to the physicals should put you off - I mean, Apple exclusives tend to be more pricey, don't they?

**Backfire**

Kaptajn Congoboy wrote:
I - I mean, Apple exclusives tend to be more pricey, don't they?

Yes, Apple & GW, there''s a perfect marriage.

**pitboy2710**

I refuse to pay the same money for a digital product that i would pay for the physical version

**doctorahhnold**

It's actually a pretty handy app. Very functional

**Yodhrin**

Kaptajn Congoboy wrote:
If you want a deck of Psychic Power cards and like to use your phone in gaming, I don't see why a similar price to the physicals should put you off - I mean, Apple exclusives tend to be more pricey, don't they?

Erm, pretty sure iBooks is an iPad-only app. No phones, no macbooks, just the tablet. Not that I'd ever purchase an Apple product without having been subject to one of those incidents in which a serious head trauma drastically alters your personality and behaviour of course

As for why a similar price to the physicals should put you off, that's easy; when I pay GW £8 for a physical set of Psychic Cards, they are mine, I own them. I can use them where, how, why, and when I want, I can make a backup copy of them in case I lose or damage them, and if someone takes them from me without my consent that is considered theft.

When I pay Apple £8 for a set of virtual Psychic Cards, according to Apple I am only renting the right to use the application, and that right has a list of conditions attached which could circumscribe the Earth, the most disturbing of which is that they reserve the right to remove my access at any time for any reason.

It's only recently, thanks to the Blitzkrieg marketing and shady borderline-bribery(known as "lobbying" in political circles) of companies like Apple, that it become commonplace to expect someone to pay exactly the same price to buy a product and to rent it. I do not accept that paradigm, and frankly anyone who does needs their head examined.

**darefsky (Flight Medic Paints)**

Wait.....

Is this the same thing that is available in the pages of the BRB?

Why on earth would I buy an app for that? I have access to a copy machine, or an excel spreadsheet.

That's about stupid...

**Brother SRM**

darefsky wrote:
Wait.....

Is this the same thing that is available in the pages of the BRB?

Why on earth would I buy an app for that? I have access to a copy machine, or an excel spreadsheet.

That's about stupid...

It's just kinda cool. If I didn't already have the psychic power cards (a more convenient and aesthetically pleasing method of doing what you mentioned) I might pick it up.

**FoxPhoenix135**

You know what's functional? My brain. I'd rather memorize the psychic powers word-for-word than pay 12 dollars for an app that doesn't even include all the codex powers.

Here's a pro-tip: there is a program called "Magic Set Editor" that is used for making home-made cards in the MTG style. I used them to make up cards for the Death Watch psychic powers... they looked pretty darn good. I'll likely do the same again for the 6th Ed powers.

http://www.alaskavalleygamersclub.blogspot.com/2010/10/deathwatch-psychic-abilities-reference.html