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Finally! Over two years I've been waiting for this

You know at least they seem to be learning from bad ideas instead of pressing forward and saying this has to work for us because we are Games Workshop

I might actually start buying them again.

Warhams-77 wrote:
Their FB page says Visions will stay and be changing slightly.

I am glad WD is going back to monthly, I always thought it a bad idea to go weekly and to be honest have only ever picked up a few issues since it did and after my sub ran out.

What annoys me is they change it again and the people who have subbed to it will have to live with it.

I was subbed to a monthly mag before which gave me everything, i then ended up with a mag that only did half of what it did before and i had to buy another one to get what I wanted.

now we have jsut got used to the new arrangement and happy with paying and they will change it again....

I am subbed to Visions, what am I going to get now? Visions Lite?

Well I hope that means WD will be fun to read, it sounds promising

I really hope they don't change Visions much - I actually LIKE it the way it is. I love looking at models.

Tabletop Gaming is a far better magazine for anyone who isn't GW-exclusive with their gaming.

Another good move by GW. The weekly WD was soulless and basically an advertising pamphlet. Hopefully the new monthly is actually a magazine worth buying. I'm definitely going to give it a go, I won't be subscribing, because that's not how I get my media, but I will likely be getting it when I go into my local GW in September.

I'm looking forward to it. I hope they don't disappoint us.

Subscription prices up:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Books-Digital?N=102300+4294966547&Nu=product.repositoryId&qty=12&sorting=phl&view=table&categoryId=cat440138a-flat&_requestid=13777763

£50 for a year subscription (inc. postage) is the introductory price.

They're actually asking for feedback from the people who buy their products? What happened to market research being silly and for chumps??

 Lord Corellia wrote:
They're actually asking for feedback from the people who buy their products? What happened to market research being silly and for chumps??

Gone? Like most of the kirbyish crazyness?

 Ankhalagon wrote:

Gone? Like most of the kirbyish crazyness?

I'll drink to that!

Well, let the hat banquet commence, pass the HP sauce eh

Seriously though, this is potentially great stuff providing they can tone down the overconfidently triumphalist tone so much of the studio output has these days - by all means enumerate the virtues of the product, but do it honestly and with a touch of humility rather than all this Best Miniatures In The World(tm)/Ferrari Of Miniatures guff - their products are almost always good enough to stand on their own merits, and usually good enough that only minor persuasion is required to get us to overlook the grotesque pricing, so drop the hard-sell and focus on solid content with a bit of self-awareness.

IE, they should probably clone Fat Bloke.

I'm actually a little disappointed. My favorite part of White Dwark Weekly is the inevitable painting tutorial. If White Dwarf goes back to a monthly version, I'm likely to see my 4 potential tutorials per month drop back down to 1. This makes me sad. Given that the price per issue will go up, I'll be paying more per tutorial and having fewer available per year.

This is very bad news for people who bought White Dwarf mainly for the painting tutorials.

 Kriswall wrote:
I'm actually a little disappointed. My favorite part of White Dwark Weekly is the inevitable painting tutorial. If White Dwarf goes back to a monthly version, I'm likely to see my 4 potential tutorials per month drop back down to 1. This makes me sad. Given that the price per issue will go up, I'll be paying more per tutorial and having fewer available per year.

This is very bad news for people who bought White Dwarf mainly for the painting tutorials.

You never know, there might be a greater ranger of painting tutorials presented within a single issue. They are going to have to fill the magazine with something after all.

Interesting.

While I like going to my LGS every week to grab a WD I did prefer the larger monthly issues. I'm conflicted, but optimistic. They had a great formula right before they went weekly, so here's to hoping they go back to that and even improve on it.

The weekly issues were great when they first started, but it has slowly tapered off; as mentioned, WD has been rather soulless recently.

This sounds like a good move to me. Right now I only pick one up if it's got something I want in it (rules, a particular paint splatter, etc). This will probably get me to pick it up regularly. It's nice reading something that's not on a iPhone/iPad screen once in awhile

 Kriswall wrote:
I'm actually a little disappointed. My favorite part of White Dwark Weekly is the inevitable painting tutorial. If White Dwarf goes back to a monthly version, I'm likely to see my 4 potential tutorials per month drop back down to 1. This makes me sad. Given that the price per issue will go up, I'll be paying more per tutorial and having fewer available per year.

This is very bad news for people who bought White Dwarf mainly for the painting tutorials.

I'd rather have one painting tutorial that actually tries to teach us new techniques than four painting tutorials that amount to instructions to layer on whatever colours the studio used.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Kriswall wrote:
I'm actually a little disappointed. My favorite part of White Dwark Weekly is the inevitable painting tutorial. If White Dwarf goes back to a monthly version, I'm likely to see my 4 potential tutorials per month drop back down to 1. This makes me sad. Given that the price per issue will go up, I'll be paying more per tutorial and having fewer available per year.

This is very bad news for people who bought White Dwarf mainly for the painting tutorials.

I'd rather have one painting tutorial that actually tries to teach us new techniques than four painting tutorials that amount to instructions to layer on whatever colours the studio used.

I appreciate that. But... I'm colorblind. I'd much rather have simple tutorials that show me how to get the colors right for a wide variety of common things (rusty armor, shiny armor, red cloaks, blue cloaks, etc). I already know all the basics and YouTube is better at teaching advanced techniques than a magazine article.

 -DE- wrote:
The "ultimate" Warhammer magazine? So which one's the penultimate? Or does it indirectly suggest that if this one fails, the official Warhammer magazine will be no more?

Penultimate is the one they just canned.

(I think you might have subscribed to an americanism there...)

I guess the real question is, when they go back to the monthly White Dwarf will the first issue be #1, #136 or #410

I guess #1 again.

And i guess we will see four week preview and releases with the new monthy WD.

RazorEdge wrote:
I guess #1 again.

And i guess we will see four week preview and releases with the new monthy WD.

Is it possible they're moving back to monthly releases?

This is great news, I really hope they do this right. Imagine going back to the golden years with Fat Bloke in terms of quality! I would perhaps even subscribe again.

It sounds like they've listened to fan demand here, and that has me interested. The price also isn't bad at all for the pre-order offer. I actually liked White Dwarf before it went weekly - I felt it was definitely moving in the right direction before it got changed. I think I'll be subscribing to this.

What a time to be alive! I miss battle reports, masterclass and conversion guides so much! Lay it on us GW. I am ready.

If it becomes roughy 9000 times better than WD was in the end of it's last monthly iteration, I'd consider buying it again.

Designer's notes and Battlereports (proper ones with diagrams and graphics, not just random photos) is precisely the things that would be worth money, like in the Fat-bloke era.

Unfortunately, a lot of the pages will be wasted on AoS stuff so the 40K sections would have to compensate for that, which will be difficult indeed. Maybe if there would be a lot of Heresy content there might be some value though.

Everybody were complaining about WD even before it changed to a weekly format. It will have to do a big makeover for it to be worth its price

No-one mentioned the lack of 'Games Workshop' branding so far, instead using the 'Warhammer' brand in the masthead that the newly-opened and refitted shops are using? Just me spotted that?

I've just phoned up to enquire about the new subscription.


I was informed that what they believe is going to happen is that, as an existing Visions subscriber (for the sum of £3.00 per issue as a hangover from my original monthly WD sub), I will automatically receive the new monthly WD.

However, they have my details and will get back to me.

Make of that what you will, but it is possible that the new version will replace WD weekly and Visions.

Obviously opinions vary but I will miss Visions to some extent, especially after the size upgrade, as sometimes you can get fed up looking at screens. That and I wasn't paying £7.50 per issue.

My brother had a sub to White Dwarf - he will probably appreciate this change. I'm probably going to pick up an issue if I can't pervue a copy at the FLGS - I'm cautiously optimistic.

I only ever picked up one copy of the new WD - with the Stormsurge (I use a Gundam Heavyarms to proxy the model). I also picked up the 1st issue of visions, hoping it might become a collector's item. I ended up tossing it away after AoS came out, as I thought GW had finally lost all its marbles.