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I wonder if its going to be Bi-Monthly..

 knighthaunter wrote:
I wonder if its going to be Bi-Monthly..

Everything so far has said monthly.

 pretre wrote:

 fishy bob wrote:

 pretre wrote:
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For those of you not paying attention, that sounds like a price decrease. No one choke on what they are eating now.

That's for the iPad version though?

True, but when have they ever discounted digital?

Well, Black Library books come to mind. Are paper WD and pixel WD currently the same price?

 fishy bob wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 fishy bob wrote:

 pretre wrote:
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For those of you not paying attention, that sounds like a price decrease. No one choke on what they are eating now.

That's for the iPad version though?

True, but when have they ever discounted digital?

Well, Black Library books come to mind. Are paper WD and pixel WD currently the same price?

Oh, my bad.

Physical is 55 pounds
itunes is 45 pounds.

Still not a 50% discount though.

What I am reading actually sounds like a genuinely good thing. Having an actual hobby magazine would be awesome although I dread to think what the price will be in Canada.

It's a shame to see WD go though especially it is what introduced me to the hobby (Stumbled across 30 or so old editions while at a paper recycling place) That being said from what I have seen of the editions as of late were a laughable excuse for actual content so change is certainly needed. I simply hope that GW get it right this time and produce something worth reading.

ya that remark was just based off £7.50/2=£3.75, I would have a hard time seeing them go bi-monthly, but a year ago i would have said i would never see them having a weekly anything to.
Really, as much as i'm gun shy of GW these days this may actually be "Great News", sans the normally attached sarcasm i would say that with.

 azreal13 wrote:
Kroot, dude, pal. Your posts in the last 6 months or so have transmuted from what could be considered "healthy cynic" into something that more closely resembles some sort of an attempt at parodying a stereotypical GW hater.

I put it down to humour failing in translation, but if you really mean what you post, then you're in a fething enormous glass house and really should put all those stones down before somebody gets hurt.

Not an attack, just stating an observation.

You missed the fact that I was relating to HBMC's post in another thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/450/570012.page#6417013
According to him, cynicism is okay for him but not for anybody else.
According to him, ad hominem attacks are okay for him but not for anybody else.
I just wanted to put this on record, so that in future he might think twice before trolling me personally for criticising GW.

No one is trolling you except for yourself. Just dial it back a couple notches.

 pretre wrote:
Oh, my bad.

Physical is 55 pounds
itunes is 45 pounds.

Still not a 50% discount though.

I wasn't disputing that there's a price decrease, I'm just wondering how much the physical version will be.

If there'll even be a physical version?

 fishy bob wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Oh, my bad.

Physical is 55 pounds
itunes is 45 pounds.

Still not a 50% discount though.

I wasn't disputing that there's a price decrease, I'm just wondering how much the physical version will be.

If there'll even be a physical version?

Well according to the 'official' guy 7.5 pounds per physical. Subscriptions do usually get a discount off that though.


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So maybe that 44.99 is just them offering the current itunes price for a while...

 Kroothawk wrote:

You missed the fact that I was relating to HBMC's post in another thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/450/570012.page#6417013
According to him, cynicism is okay for him but not for anybody else.
According to him, ad hominem attacks are okay for him but not for anybody else.
I just wanted to put this on record, so that in future he might think twice before trolling me personally for criticising GW.

I think you've miss-used the concepts of "cynicism", "ad hominem" and "trolling" in a single post. Good effort. Of course nothing you just wrote has any real resemblance to what I said at all, but whatever. I think I'm done with you.

 pretre wrote:

 fishy bob wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Oh, my bad.

Physical is 55 pounds
itunes is 45 pounds.

Still not a 50% discount though.

I wasn't disputing that there's a price decrease, I'm just wondering how much the physical version will be.

If there'll even be a physical version?

Well according to the 'official' guy 7.5 pounds per physical. Subscriptions do usually get a discount off that though.

Ah okay. I couldn't read through that post

Edit:

 pretre wrote:
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So maybe that 44.99 is just them offering the current itunes price for a while...

In your pic they do mention "special price", so that's what I'm thinking.

What's the usual price of a physical WD in pounds?

 pretre wrote:
What's the usual price of a physical WD in pounds?

£5.50


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So, they're still selling 12month subscriptions for £55. £44 if you collect in store. If it really is going to £7.50 per monthly issue, these subscriptions seem like a bit of a deal, no?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Theduke07 wrote:
You rarely can a successful product.

This is Games "Limited Edition Space Hulk" Workshop, remember?

That i do understand, after all, if everybody settles for a small skirmish game, who is going to be left to buy their "armies"?. This smells simply to a closing shop move.

So is the big, monthly one going to have the hobby stuff in it, or just pretty pictures? Because I've seen both described for the monthly one.

Weekly one will be new releases of the week?

xxvaderxx wrote:
That i do understand, after all, if everybody settles for a small skirmish game, who is going to be left to buy their "armies"?. This smells simply to a closing shop move.

1. Space Hulk isn't a "skirmish" game. It's a standard board game.
2. You really, honestly think that people would have bought Space Hulk, a board game, with its two model types and gone "Well, that's enough for me. Don't need all the rest of these armies and tanks and variety now that I have this game that only does one thing and has two model types!".

Space Hulk would not have cannibalised regular 40K sales. That assertion is absurd.

I still have 3 coupons left from my current sub. I wasn't going to renew it, but will use them to see it this new magazine is worth it.

I remember my old year 2000 WD, with tactics for sentinels, or how to get the best out of your assaulting units across several armies (not only current release units).

I wondered if you could take remaining coupons and use them on any back issues you missed, then I realised how stupid that sounds.

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
New Wine/Old Bottle

FTFY

Good riddence to this 'magazine'. Old WD was pure gold, new WD is a glorified shopping catalogue. Like those annoying advertisements that come free in the mail, except you have to pay for the priviledge

 Dakkamite wrote:

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
New Wine/Old Bottle

Good riddence to this 'magazine'. Old WD was pure gold, new WD is a glorified shopping catalogue.

Yup, that just about sums it up...

This is shocking news and whatever...
I wouldn't have liked it 15 years ago, but i just don't care.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

xxvaderxx wrote:
That i do understand, after all, if everybody settles for a small skirmish game, who is going to be left to buy their "armies"?. This smells simply to a closing shop move.

1. Space Hulk isn't a "skirmish" game. It's a standard board game.
2. You really, honestly think that people would have bought Space Hulk, a board game, with its two model types and gone "Well, that's enough for me. Don't need all the rest of these armies and tanks and variety now that I have this game that only does one thing and has two model types!".

Space Hulk would not have cannibalised regular 40K sales. That assertion is absurd.

Privateer press and many others base their models on that, i tend to think they know what they are doing.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Who, with access to the internet, honestly gives a gak?

If today's WD had the stuff I can find in my archive issues from over 10 years ago, I'd buy it, internet or not.

This.

Chapter Approved, Index Astartes, battle reports that actually reported on battles and gave you some insight into how the game was prepared for and played out, features on cool conversions made by staff with guides on how they were done and a list of necessary bitz you could order on-demand from the Trolls, scenarios and new rules for the core systems and the many Specialist Games, hell sometimes whole new games(first incarnation of Kill Team), wee short stories, even free models on occasion. Going in to GW to grab the latest Dwarf, Journal, Town Crier, and BFG Magazine used to be one of the best parts of being involved with Warhammer. These days even a column by John Blanche can't motivate me to fork over money for the glorified catalogue it has become(and before the Shining Knights of Kirby come riding in, yes, we know, it was always catalogue-esque, but the degree isn't even remotely comparable).

Having read the updated info, I'll stick with cynical grognard mode until we actually see one. Also, it depresses me that I can remember buying full-sized codices for only 50p more than the proposed sticker price for this magazine - either I'm getting old, or GW really have just gone bat insane over the last few years.

Getting rid of fantasy, or at least putting it on the back burner, maybe they'll reorganize and do a 40k only magazine instead.

well, rest in peace. Even during its golden age it wasn't great.

Wierd that there's so many people talking about how great it used to be. I think hindsight plays wonders on peoples minds, other than the occasional short story there was nothing special there

Weekly magazine of weekly releases... 32 pages... so maybe 10 pages for each new product and a bunch of filler?


Wouldn't surprise me if it also became an A5 format mag instead of A4, too.

xruslanx wrote:
well, rest in peace. Even during its golden age it wasn't great.

Wierd that there's so many people talking about how great it used to be. I think hindsight plays wonders on peoples minds, other than the occasional short story there was nothing special there

Actually there was an old issue (from like the early 90s I think) posted here a couple of months ago and it was amazing, it was pure content with every other page having rules or fluff.
compared to the old stuff whatever, who cares but golden age stuff, from what I've seen, was amazing.

I'm hoping they ditch it. There's no reason to pay for nothing but advertising. Battle reports? Play your friends and make your own.

Okay, how do they expect to be able to dedicate an entire magazine to Warhammer?

They're having difficulty filling the magazine with stuff worth reading as is, so how are they going to manage a weekly comic book sized magazine (if it is that)?