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Small book is here

30 quid

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440161a&prodId=prod2160089a

Cheers.

Wow that's reassuringly expensive.

Hardcover eh? Didn't see that coming.

They're having a fething laugh now.

 cincydooley wrote:
Hardcover eh? Didn't see that coming.

... I honestly thought that we will get some options. Like softback. And Orks on cover... Or other peeps...

Cheers.


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...or maybe 5 quid grayscale, matt paper... just enough for highlights and sticky tabs...

Anyway. Rejoice.

Cheers.

Wow. This has got to be a joke. $50 for a hardcover book when the only reason anyone wants a rules-only book is because the hardcover rulebook is a pain to carry around. Meanwhile the starter set rulebook is selling for about $30 on ebay.

They simply can not charge less than $50 for a rulebook anymore, wow.

$35, at best. $50 is a fething rip-off just like everything else GW puts out. And again, obligatory hardcover, something no one asked for but we're all paying extra to get.

I wonder if this is just an attempt at making the ipad version look more appealing. They don't actually expect anyone to buy the paper book (though if anyone is gullible enough, free profit), but when their website says that it costs $50 to buy this bulky piece of the slightly cheaper and much more convenient ipad version starts to look like an absolute bargain.

The iPad version at $32 is pretty solid IMO.....

 cincydooley wrote:
The iPad version at $32 is pretty solid IMO.....

It won't be long until an iPad mini is cheaper than a GW rulebook.

Pretty shocked there is no 100$ collectors edition.

...Meh. In my book it's another option, which is always good.
If you want cheaper, get DV and sell the sprues. Bamf, (almost) free rulebook. If you want hardcover, get this. Having more options is usually good.

Of course the price is insane but we're used to that at this point.
Still, it's not as bad as some seem to be making it out to be; there's more affordable alternatives available so this is basically a luxury option for those who want it. And really, if you game regularly having both the small size and hardback advantages to your rulebook that's worth another tenner, in my book (as far as marginal utility goes for a regular player; value for money it's still a rip-off of course).

haroon wrote:
Pretty shocked there is no 100$ collectors edition.

...1M Saits Row 4 Style maybe?...

Cheers

Linkdead wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
The iPad version at $32 is pretty solid IMO.....

It won't be long until an iPad mini is cheaper than a GW rulebook.

Yeah. You're right. It's totally close to that price point.

I managed to get a blackberry playbook for only $20 more than the little rulebook...

It looks pretty, I could see myself splurging on one despite having an iPad, but I have a thing for fancy books. The regular rule book is a better value really, if you have an appreciation for all the art and fluff.

So don't buy it.

Whew! That was hard to figure out. If you don't want to pay that price, you just don't buy it. They can't force you to. The only way an experiment like this gets chalked up as a "Failure; let's try something different" is if it absolutely doesn't sell.

If you play the game, you either already have the BRB, the Dark Vengeance mini, or a digital version (hopefully paid for; else get out of the freaking hobby).

This is just an option. A slimmer, smaller, but no less durable (THANKS to the hardcover) book.

haroon wrote:
Pretty shocked there is no 100$ collectors edition.

That's because they already have a deluxe edition of the rulebook.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440162a&prodId=prod1620012a

 Bolognesus wrote:
Still, it's not as bad as some seem to be making it out to be; there's more affordable alternatives available so this is basically a luxury option for those who want it.

But there's already a luxury option for those who wanted it: the special edition rulebook, or even the full standard rulebook. The entire market for rules-only books is people who either want a small and light copy for everyday gaming and people who want the cheapest possible rulebook. This garbage fails at both of those things. A large-print hardcover book is still obnoxious to carry around (especially compared to the starter set rulebook), and costs significantly more than buying the starter rulebook on ebay. I just can't see there being a meaningful market for this book, while a $20 paperback version would have sold in huge numbers.

winterdyne wrote:
They're having a fething laugh now.

Kirby's probably watching every order for one of those.

And laughing at those people.

Laughing.

 Peregrine wrote:

 Bolognesus wrote:
Still, it's not as bad as some seem to be making it out to be; there's more affordable alternatives available so this is basically a luxury option for those who want it.

But there's already a luxury option for those who wanted it: the special edition rulebook, or even the full standard rulebook. The entire market for rules-only books is people who either want a small and light copy for everyday gaming and people who want the cheapest possible rulebook. This garbage fails at both of those things. A large-print hardcover book is still obnoxious to carry around (especially compared to the starter set rulebook), and costs significantly more than buying the starter rulebook on ebay. I just can't see there being a meaningful market for this book, while a $20 paperback version would have sold in huge numbers.

To each his own, I guess. I can see throwing this in a bag/case easy; the full book not so much. If I still played 40k regularly I'd probably buy one. I'll acknowledge it's a matter of taste, though.

Hahaha. 83 dollarydoos for a pissy little book like that. GW you daft buggers.

decker_cky wrote:
I managed to get a blackberry playbook for only $20 more than the little rulebook...

I'm sorry you had to go through that. Did you recover, eventually?

It will sell because people will buy it ...

Hmm 50$ for a mini rule book or 50$ spit with a friend for a mini rule book at 20-30 odd minis? tough choice

Is this available for the iphone?

 Peregrine wrote:
Meanwhile the starter set rulebook is selling for about $30 on ebay.

Mine was only $20 off ebay.

You can get an ePub version that will work on an iPhone for $32. Full rules.

 OIIIIIIO wrote:
It will sell because people will buy it ...

That's the traditional cause for things selling yes!

I'm surprised I'm not more scandalised, either this isn't as utterly ridiculous a price to me as it is to others, or I'm simply getting inured to their fethery. .

I say the latter.