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 oldzoggy wrote:

My issues with 7th.
- This edition no longer has a point cost system.

I thought you were talking about Age of Sigmar. Maybe what we need in 40K is the Emperor's Book.

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
If GW had business sense, I would expect them to go for the christmas season. Far off enough to tie up the remaining loose ends and also prime shopping season.

Given that Rountree actually does seem to know what he's doing, this might be possible.

Putting a major event at Christmas/holiday season is actually a terrible idea. People are already going to increase purchases for the holidays, either as gifts, or with gift money. You don't need to add an event on top of that- you want the event at a weak part of the year, to keep interest up, keep sales consistent, and get customers to come back, instead of spend all their money/interest in December, then move on and drop 40K.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
If GW had business sense, I would expect them to go for the christmas season. Far off enough to tie up the remaining loose ends and also prime shopping season.

Given that Rountree actually does seem to know what he's doing, this might be possible.

Putting a major event at Christmas/holiday season is actually a terrible idea. People are already going to increase purchases for the holidays, either as gifts, or with gift money. You don't need to add an event on top of that- you want the event at a weak part of the year, to keep interest up, keep sales consistent, and get customers to come back, instead of spend all their money/interest in December, then move on and drop 40K.

Agreed, this is why I don't think they will combine the anniversary with a new edition. Why waste two events by combining them into one?

Dakka has some real cognitive dissonance when it comes to knowing about upcoming things.

Everyone wants to know what's coming up and when things will happen, so we read all the rumors and try to judge how likely each one is to be correct.

But at the same time, someone who receives a White Dwarf in the mail a few days early can take some photographs and provide descriptions and prices of everything new coming up the next month, and people say to take it all with a grain of salt because it's not verified any more than some popular rumormonger making a statement with no evidence other than their word that it's true.

After being someone who got a White Dwarf early, told people what was in it, took photographs and posted them, and had my claims classified as rumors, and got a Cease and Desist from GW with my photobucket account threatened with closure for my trouble, I decided to simply stop caring and never post any advance info I get again. It would be completely impossible for me to verify my claims with any more strength than I did unless I actually mailed the magazine to some random Dakka-ite who would corroborate what I said, and yet it was still classified as a rumor. If you can call the strongest evidence possible a rumor, then just give up entirely on the concept of verifying claims altogether and believe whatever you want.

 Pouncey wrote:
believe whatever you want.

I *want* to believe that GW will soon fix the IG and CSM codexes.

But the realist in me says we'll have to wait for at least 3 more loyalist marine releases before these, and CSM will just get a minor edit, rather than the massive overhaul it needs.