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1. The first thing I would do is create a partnership with my retail partners. I would communicate with them on what would make my products more profitable, not only for GW, but also for the stores. This partnership would also create a new trade agreement moving forward.
2. I would create a volunteer team that are rewarded for running events at retail partner stores and conventions.
3. I would allow all retail partners to order Forge World products without shipping charges.
4. I would create a design team that plans out each edition in advance. I would then eliminate the Codex system and give armies simultaneous updates. This way if one army is dominant and another army is underperforming, I could make adjustments utilizing expansion books. This way models that are not selling could be given updates to improve their effectiveness. Armies would not have to wait 4 years to improve, they could get updates every 3-6 months.
5. I would offer a digital copy of each book with the purchase of the hard bound book and offer e-books at a reduced price.
6. I would offer sales through my retail partners, where they could offer discounts. I would also start a fan club through my website membership. I would send coupons to fan club members to purchase items at retail locations or allow them to be redeemed on the website.
7. I would normalize the currency exchange, so that countries like Australia aren't paying double for the same products.
8. I would participate in conventions like Gen Con and Comic Con, bringing my company back into the fold of the gaming community.
I would have a busy first week. I could discuss what I would week 2 some other time.
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Daner0023 wrote: 7. I would normalize the currency exchange, so that countries like Australia aren't paying double for the same products.
GW are doing this already, if you haven't noticed.
Australia has the 'normal' price that the US and UK are being adjusted to. Those regions have been getting price hikes over recent years still, while Austalia has largely missed the last 2.
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CthuluIsSpy wrote: Assuming Hasbro will try to maintain the distinctive gritty atmosphere and not try to turn it into GI Joe. Seeing what they did to XCOM, I doubt they will.
Isn't XCOM a Firaxis thing?
Besides, Hasbro is likely to retain all the employees from 40k, although you may expect to see Simon Furman start writing 40k fluff.
Midnightdeathblade wrote: Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Assuming Hasbro will try to maintain the distinctive gritty atmosphere and not try to turn it into GI Joe. Seeing what they did to XCOM, I doubt they will.
Isn't XCOM a Firaxis thing?
Besides, Hasbro is likely to retain all the employees from 40k, although you may expect to see Simon Furman start writing 40k fluff.
It was a Hasbro thing.
It was Microprose --> Hasbro --> 2K (who owns Firaxis)
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troa wrote: So...Y'all would put GW out of business by gutshot changes that would likely be unsound for a business.
Again, selling Gw to Hasbro wih the stipulation of a 40 transformers crossover sometime down the road would be the best thing to happen to the company. These guys made a profit off a movie about Battleship for Emprah's sake.
Ha. I'm just wondering how the Transformers and 40K universes would mesh. Not well, I'd imagine. Transformers are usually quite child-friendly and fairly cheerful. The 40K universe, not so much.
Read the IDW comics ( Dan Abnett writes some Transformers comics actually! ) They're plenty dark and I would buy the gak out of a transforming land raider.
I agree - I think they're dark enough
Spoiler:
Been reading regeneration one. Megatron incites Optimus prime to violence by shooting Springer in the back of the head while holding him face down. Executing someone just so you can have a punch up with his boss is dark enough imo
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Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
I would choose one faction (a space marine faction) and release tons of overpowered models for them.
Then I would nerf allot of expensive units and outright get rid of the ability for people to use the miniatures they already own (remember when Iron Warriors were allowed to use basilisks, heck remember when Iron Warriors were a thing)
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
I would double prices, make every single model out of Finecast, remove Sisters of Battle from the fluff entirely, put Matt Ward in charge of the fluff department, put models in random blindpacked boxes, replace all the Chaos Space Marine kits with standard Space Marine kits with the spiky sprue, close down Forge World, replace White Dwarf with a monthly product catalogue which costs £7 a month and signs you on to a permanent subscription as soon as you buy 1, bribe all the world leaders into making all 3rd party model companies, paint companies and game systems illegal, executing anyone who promotes them, release a line of pre-painted models, remove the QC department entirely, remove the ability to return miscast models, and order all non-GW sanctioned wargaming forums shut down.
Why?
To annoy DakkaDakka of course.
Also H.B.M.C would be strapped into a chair with his eyes forced open and made to watch, A Clockwork Orange style.
Squigsquasher, resident ban magnet, White Knight, and general fethwit.
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Squigsquasher wrote: I would double prices, make every single model out of Finecast, remove Sisters of Battle from the fluff entirely, put Matt Ward in charge of the fluff department, put models in random blindpacked boxes, replace all the Chaos Space Marine kits with standard Space Marine kits with the spiky sprue, close down Forge World, replace White Dwarf with a monthly product catalogue which costs £7 a month and signs you on to a permanent subscription as soon as you buy 1, bribe all the world leaders into making all 3rd party model companies, paint companies and game systems illegal, executing anyone who promotes them, release a line of pre-painted models, remove the QC department entirely, remove the ability to return miscast models, and order all non-GW sanctioned wargaming forums shut down.
Why?
To annoy DakkaDakka of course.
Also H.B.M.C would be strapped into a chair with his eyes forced open and made to watch, A Clockwork Orange style.
troa wrote: So...Y'all would put GW out of business by gutshot changes that would likely be unsound for a business.
Again, selling Gw to Hasbro wih the stipulation of a 40 transformers crossover sometime down the road would be the best thing to happen to the company. These guys made a profit off a movie about Battleship for Emprah's sake.
Ha. I'm just wondering how the Transformers and 40K universes would mesh. Not well, I'd imagine. Transformers are usually quite child-friendly and fairly cheerful. The 40K universe, not so much.
Read the IDW comics ( Dan Abnett writes some Transformers comics actually! ) They're plenty dark and I would buy the gak out of a transforming land raider.
I agree - I think they're dark enough
Spoiler:
Been reading regeneration one. Megatron incites Optimus prime to violence by shooting Springer in the back of the head while holding him face down. Executing someone just so you can have a punch up with his boss is dark enough imo
Also Megatron as a Heldrake, think about it.
Midnightdeathblade wrote: Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Assuming Hasbro will try to maintain the distinctive gritty atmosphere and not try to turn it into GI Joe. Seeing what they did to XCOM, I doubt they will.
Isn't XCOM a Firaxis thing?
Besides, Hasbro is likely to retain all the employees from 40k, although you may expect to see Simon Furman start writing 40k fluff.
It was a Hasbro thing.
It was Microprose --> Hasbro --> 2K (who owns Firaxis)
Hasbro made a right mess out of it, trying to reinvision a brand that only needed you to follow the winning formula, while Firaxis went and said "Look, it aint hard. Here is how you make a proper XCOM game."
And there was much rejoicing.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Assuming Hasbro will try to maintain the distinctive gritty atmosphere and not try to turn it into GI Joe. Seeing what they did to XCOM, I doubt they will.
Isn't XCOM a Firaxis thing?
Besides, Hasbro is likely to retain all the employees from 40k, although you may expect to see Simon Furman start writing 40k fluff.
It was a Hasbro thing.
It was Microprose --> Hasbro --> 2K (who owns Firaxis)
Hasbro made a right mess out of it, trying to reinvision a brand that only needed you to follow the winning formula, while Firaxis went and said "Look, it aint hard. Here is how you make a proper XCOM game."
And there was much rejoicing.
Maybe Firaxis should take over 40k.
Firaxis is purely a video gaming company though.
Midnightdeathblade wrote: Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
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CthuluIsSpy wrote: Assuming Hasbro will try to maintain the distinctive gritty atmosphere and not try to turn it into GI Joe. Seeing what they did to XCOM, I doubt they will.
Isn't XCOM a Firaxis thing?
Besides, Hasbro is likely to retain all the employees from 40k, although you may expect to see Simon Furman start writing 40k fluff.
It was a Hasbro thing.
It was Microprose --> Hasbro --> 2K (who owns Firaxis)
Hasbro made a right mess out of it, trying to reinvision a brand that only needed you to follow the winning formula, while Firaxis went and said "Look, it aint hard. Here is how you make a proper XCOM game."
And there was much rejoicing.
Maybe Firaxis should take over 40k.
Firaxis is purely a video gaming company though.
I doubt their lack of experience with table top would mean they made a bigger mess of it than GW does.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Assuming Hasbro will try to maintain the distinctive gritty atmosphere and not try to turn it into GI Joe. Seeing what they did to XCOM, I doubt they will.
Isn't XCOM a Firaxis thing?
Besides, Hasbro is likely to retain all the employees from 40k, although you may expect to see Simon Furman start writing 40k fluff.
It was a Hasbro thing.
It was Microprose --> Hasbro --> 2K (who owns Firaxis)
Hasbro made a right mess out of it, trying to reinvision a brand that only needed you to follow the winning formula, while Firaxis went and said "Look, it aint hard. Here is how you make a proper XCOM game."
And there was much rejoicing.
Maybe Firaxis should take over 40k.
Firaxis is purely a video gaming company though.
I doubt their lack of experience with table top would mean they made a bigger mess of it than GW does.
How much does Firaxis/2k make?
There's little doubt that Hasbro could devour GW with minimal trouble if it wanted to, but I'd like to see how much dough 2k would need to take out of it's revenues to make a purchase happen.
Midnightdeathblade wrote: Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: A lot. They are the ones who made Bioshock and Borderlands, which are hugely successful titles.
Not to mention they own Firaxis, who are the developers of the famous Civilization series.
I'm a bit of a Civnut myself (I got one of those big gold edition packs for Civ II as a kid and played the gak out of all those fantastic scenarios) although sadly I can't seem to play my copy of Civ IV anymore and my computer no longer can play sound from non windows based programs (I force closed a game of DOW II Retribution and it seems to have fethed up my computer), making Civ V a lot less enjoyable.
Midnightdeathblade wrote: Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Ouch. Did you try fixing the registry? What error message do you get?
Parsing XML error for Civ IV.
As for the sound, I have no idea, the error was that after I ctrl+alt+del out of DOW II because it takes forever for it to hit the post game, my computer then went black and the monitor kept on going into sleep mode. So I head to restart it, and now everything's fethed ten ways til sunday.
Midnightdeathblade wrote: Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
Super Ready wrote: ....I strongly suspect that they've simply been told to create bundles as appropriate but haven't been given any kind of power to mark them down...
I hate to derail, but this is almost certainly the case. I've worked in marketing and writing internet copy for a fairly large company (about 70 million dollars in annual sales). In merchandising, we were tasked with assembling complementary items and promotional material, but any standing discounts or sales had to come down from a more executive branch of the company. And they never did anything without running basic analytics.
Yes I have, the game doesn't work among other things, but strangely somehow other computer systems are borked, including windows installer, preventing me from getting things that could cure the problem. Guess I'll just have to get professional help.
Midnightdeathblade wrote: Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
I posted almost the same idea to the local club's site some time ago. This was after or just before the storm pigeon ( AKA Stormtalon) came out. Some of these issues have faded but some remain.
I’m in charge:
FailCast needs to be Finecast. The folks at FW have done good. What the crap is wrong with FC? Fix it or make it all plastic.
White Dwarf needs to be less commercials and more how to. Give me a poster or something every few months. When was the last ‘free’ item in WD? The release of 5th?
Go through every Codex. If you list it you make a model for it! How long did it take you to make drop pods??
Go through every Codex and fix all the GREY rules.
More Codex stuff. You do not make another book until all the current ones are up to date. Sisters and Templars need love too.
FIX ALL THE GRAMMER AND PROOF READ!!! This isn’t a blog and you’re an adult.
Face it GW, 3rd party stuff is gonna stay no matter how many lawyer monkeys you send after them. Save your money and allow them to make stuff for us that you don’t have the scruples to do yourselves.
Dump that movie game. Great idea when the films were out but when will the new ones be here? Time to closet it like you did to BloodBowl, Gothic, EPIC, squats etc.
Speaking of squats… Hello UNOFFICAL WHITE DWARF ARMY. Snot, you did it for movie marines and no one is screaming for you to make those models!! Plus, IF I build a squat army I’ll have to buy Dwarfs from you so that means the registers will ring and you WANT that to happen!!! Again to those who can’t read: REGISTERS WILL RING AND YOU WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!!!!
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all lose money on the new systems and make money on the games and accessories. You need to do the same. Troops (no special rules), HQ, Codex, Rulebooks all need to be sold with as little markup as possible. Get them in, show them a great fun game and they will buy more.
Stores. I love opening up WD (when I feel you can have my money) and seeing new stores opening up. That means your growing. Good. Can I have a store closer to my home? 3 hours to play a game in the official GW environment is silly.
More on stores. Wanna try to make more sales? Send your indy stores packets of information about what your corporate stores are doing for events. A simple email and link is all you really need.
Product leaks: Face it. You have a leak. Seal it or admit it and tell us what you are cooking before we short out our keyboards with drool. Some people saw storm pigeon art 3 months ago.
Stock. Yes if it wasn’t for their capitol they *coughed* up a few years ago we may not be where we are. Stockholders, however need to remember that if the register doesn’t ring they don’t get a cut. So raising the prices every year doesn’t really help. Wanna make profit from stock? Buy gold. Wanna play a game and have some fun, come over here.
Forge World needs to make a US branch. Not so much as the design or rules making but making the product. How much more might they sell if the US market only had to wait 2 weeks and not 6.
The fan’s painting section on the web site is great but I like to see myself as a builder not a painter. Can we get some love??
Weekend sales specials? Buy that box of terminators and get this LE 5 dice set free might seem lame but it’s a start.
<--Bolt on Cuteness: S:20,No armour save, no invul save, no cover save, Range:unlimited---DEAL
Enough too have fun
I would rember that many people love my product and even if i lowered prices on product that are grossly over priced, i'd know that i'd still make a profit because those same people will continue to buy no matter what. Business may even improve letting more people buy more product at a cheaper rate. This could result in a couple of things
1.People who may have been turned away from the hobby due to prices may show more interest since they can actually afford it so more business that way.
2. Loyal hobbyist may be more inclined to start mulitiple armies thus still buying more while not feeling like they're throwing their money in a pit (not a big on at least)
3.If i was CEO i wouldn't have to sit in the shower for an hour trying to wash away the guilt that i'm ripping of hundrends of people that are just looking to have a good time (though i don't think the current CEO has that problem )
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