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I mean. Why? (This prices are in €), who can explain this?

I mean is it a suprise anymore ? Lol

 Irbis wrote:
If the Blood Angel and Deathwatch stuff (which already had a price hike last year) is going up, GW is insane. I also like the number of ancient kits on this list, I can't believe they sold all that much even with lower price seeing how bad the minis look. Seriously?

On AoS side too, aren't DoK already very expensive army? As are GSC? Does GW want to ensure no one will start collecting these?

Matrindur wrote:
Probably wishful thinking but interesting that they call it price adjustments instead of price increases, so maybe we could even see some kits that sold bad decrease in price?

I wish I had your optimism...

Yeah, as if the Corvus Blackstar wasn't garbage enough! That's a 25% real $ increase in just over a year, which is HUGE for what this stuff is.

I really don't understand the pricing on some of these things at all (other than the obvious: more $$$ = more $$$ for GW)

Say what you want, but pricing does really affect my purchasing. There's a point where even I--who actually have plenty disposable income to spend and am affected zero by the global pandemic due to the nature of my job--look at prices and just say "no". I did that with the Repulsor Executioner, which is pretty much exactly the same, sprue and plastice-wise, as a regular Repulsor.

They were selling damn near zero Land Raiders before. Is it possible for them to increase the price on a horrifically bad unit so much that a warp rift opens and Tzeentch pops out and says "jeez, guys, I love change, but y'all are CRAZY!"?

They are raising the price on Valkyries again? That’s two years in a row!

 Galas wrote:


I mean. Why? (This prices are in €), who can explain this?

I'm guessing it's because Enlightened are a more elite unit.

Seems like all their terrain is going up in price. That's just wonderful...

beast_gts wrote:
Battle Sanctum

Mother fethers... this just came out!!!

beast_gts wrote:
Cadian Shock Troops

I wonder, does this box now cost the same amount as when it had 20 Cadians in it?

beast_gts wrote:
Chaos Rhino

This kit is already terrible value given it's the same cost as the Razorback... and they're putting it up?

beast_gts wrote:
Datacards: Adeptus Custodes ... Datacards: T’au Empire

The nerve they have to increase things that will be invalidated the instant a new book comes out.

beast_gts wrote:
Munitorum Armoured Containers

Isn't this kid absurdly priced enough already?

Sadly it will make no difference they will still sell loads of kits and make loads of money.

Normal ogors go from 32,50€ to 39€... there goes one of the only reasonabled priced offerings of GW :( Most increases are 8-10%. Some are smaller, but others are even bigger like the ogors.


Well guys this is confirmation this 23 they are gonna announce the next edition so we can all stop thinking about this. It is not coincidente they have drop this bomb right before that.

 Galas wrote:
Normal ogors go from 32,50€ to 39€... there goes one of the only reasonabled priced offerings of GW :(


Well guys this is confirmation this 23 they are gonna announce the next edition so we can all stop thinking about this. It is not coincidente they have drop this bomb right before that.

Do you have the list? Can you post it.

Price increase??? 9th edition confirmed!!!

Bradeh wrote:
Do you have the list? Can you post it.

Yeah where's this comparison list?

Bradeh wrote:

 Galas wrote:
Normal ogors go from 32,50€ to 39€... there goes one of the only reasonabled priced offerings of GW :(


Well guys this is confirmation this 23 they are gonna announce the next edition so we can all stop thinking about this. It is not coincidente they have drop this bomb right before that.

Do you have the list? Can you post it.

This are prices in €

https://imgur.com/a/3mQ4ve7

Curious that Cadians are going up in price but not Catachan. I wonder if it is because the later are webstore only, or if they are planning on phasing them out for new stuff to go with all those hqs they have been sprinkling lately.

Also damn, I was just thinking of making a small Ogre army, since I like the looks of them and have half a box or so laying around after some Ogryn conversions. Now...not so sure. Seems its either buy a bunch of them up front or drop the entire plan, as I am not going to spend 8 dollars more per box on them.

I wonder if the changes are gonna be consistent across areas. Because from that image ork boyz are going from 25 EU to 28 EU but currently they cost £20 which is 22.33 EU. So right now orks are cheaper in the UK as you'd prob expect.

So in the EU they are going up 12%. So does that mean in the UK they'll be £22.5ish? seems a weird price

 Latro_ wrote:
I wonder if the changes are gonna be consistent across areas. Because from that image ork boyz are going from 25 EU to 28 EU but currently they cost £20 which is 22.33 EU. So right now orks are cheaper in the UK as you'd prob expect.

So in the EU they are going up 12%. So does that mean in the UK they'll be £22.5ish? seems a weird price

You can look at the changed price on a current item to see what it will change too. Sternguard is 40EU changed to 45EU, so they are £30 changing to £35, which is a shame. (Tau Tidewall is 45EU/£35).

 Galas wrote:


I mean. Why? (This prices are in €), who can explain this?

I mean to be fair, Enlightened are the ones on the Disc aren't they? So there's that.

If that were the case then ork boyz would go from being cheaper in the uk to being more expensive than the EU, which is silly

They can’t be serious about the terrain and the Aeronautica stuff. So many of those kits already have a too-high price right now. And Blood Bowl already had a price increase recently.

Not sure what they are thinking. Do they want people to not buy this stuff?

 Latro_ wrote:
If that were the case then ork boyz would go from being cheaper in the uk to being more expensive than the EU, which is silly

Boyz are being changed to 28EU which is going to be £21-22ish, no models cost 28EU at the moment, 29EU is £22.

 TBD wrote:
They can’t be serious about the terrain and the Aeronautica stuff. So many of those kits already have a too-high price right now. And Blood Bowl already had a price increase recently.

Not sure what they are thinking. Do they want people to not buy this stuff?

BB teams have swiftly gone from 25 euros, to 30 and now to 34.

It's not really a big deal, it's just a case of making financial decisions accordingly. Sure, they have taken a big hit with the virus, but so have so many other people. Right now would be a better time to offer bundles for bigger sales and say "thanks" to their customers in this difficult time. Nope, they've done quite the opposite. I will choose accordingly.
I was on the fence about a 3rd Corvus Blackstar as I love the model, so now I have to decide if spending the reduced amount now is worth more with it probably sitting on my shelf for the next 6 months, than deciding later that it's a must have and paying a little extra. 9/10 times the former will be the right choice.

LOTR Knights of Minas Tirith €25 to €31, that is eye watering.

Well, guess I'll order the last few things I need, bit from here on in, it is all Mantic, Northstar, and Fireforge miniatures for me.

 bullyboy wrote:
It's not really a big deal, it's just a case of making financial decisions accordingly. Sure, they have taken a big hit with the virus, but so have so many other people. Right now would be a better time to offer bundles for bigger sales and say "thanks" to their customers in this difficult time. Nope, they've done quite the opposite. I will choose accordingly.
I was on the fence about a 3rd Corvus Blackstar as I love the model, so now I have to decide if spending the reduced amount now is worth more with it probably sitting on my shelf for the next 6 months, than deciding later that it's a must have and paying a little extra. 9/10 times the former will be the right choice.

The thing though is that, because of no ordering to begin with, many people will have worked on their backlog and then would eventually ordered the stuff they could once they were able to. Hell, maybe even people would be slightly spend happy because they weren't able to. What GW did instead is make those people reconsider and still work on what's left of their backlog, or not even order at all!

Glad I got most of my terrain orders done in the past few months

One word folks: eBay

I stopped buying new GW models and have been able to purchase several armies just through eBay at a very significant discount from new prices. Yes, every price increase will increase prices on the used market, but there will still be good deals to be made. If you don’t need the new hot model immediately and can appreciate some of the classic older designs, there are some fantastically good buys that come up on eBay.

Ha!
I was very close to pulling the trigger on some GW minis after a long hiatus filled by lots of other manufacturers.
Them raising prices at a time like this really rubs me the wrong way.
I'll just keep having fun with other manufacturers stuff. Good luck to those still locked in to GW

Obvious they're putting this out now right before the 9th edition release news to bury it. It's extremely, hideously tone-deaf even by GW's normal low standards, but they're obviously betting everyone will forget all about it by Saturday. And they're probably not wrong.

I guess GW think they know what they're doing, but it does seem pretty dangerous to be jacking up prices in the middle of a global depression, right as 3D printing is becoming mainstream. Within 2-3 years people will be churning out virtually indistinguishable copies of any plastic kit and selling them for 1/4 the GW price, and GW is going to have to work very hard to keep customers paying 4x as much. Maybe they figure that they may as well just milk people as much as possible because someone who's willing to pay 3x the 3D printer prices will also be willing to pay 4x or 5x?

If the numbers GW gave were accurate, this is a price hike on about 13% of the range.

yukishiro1 wrote:
but they're obviously betting everyone will forget all about it by Saturday. And they're probably not wrong.

This happens EVERY price hike, and GW just keeps selling more stuff. I wish I could find it, but I made a post like this back in 1997 on an IRC channel. Face it, for every person who quits GW, there are two more fresh-faced hobbyists waiting to take their place.

Also, the hidden upside for GW is that when people pay more for something, they believe it to be of better quality. It's just how our brains work, and is likely a way for us to justify to ourselves the higher costs of expensive items, or may be a throwback to how things that were difficult to get were usually better. Either way, $100 for a Land Raider (or whatever it is now) makes it seem that much more special to the lizard part of our brain.

 Lorek wrote:
This happens EVERY price hike, and GW just keeps selling more stuff. I wish I could find it, but I made a post like this back in 1997 on an IRC channel. Face it, for every person who quits GW, there are two more fresh-faced hobbyists waiting to take their place.

So, what, we should just suck it up and act like GW is doing us a favour?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
So, what, we should just suck it up and act like GW is doing us a favour?

I wouldn't say there's any reason to act like a price rise is a good thing... But at some point we all need to stop acting surprised by them, or pretending that they're some sort of personal attack, surely.