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The price may keep going up but the effort are becoming lower, not even a single sprue pic or 360 view for the new stuff on the webstore.

They did fix the horrible photoshop on the Start Collecting image between the prview and the pre-order though... so, yay..?

Well I for one appreciate GDW's efforts to help me break my Warhammer 40K habit . They really are going out of their way and making that extra extra effort to get those prices up to totally outrageous levels .100$ for a Flyer ? I mean what can you do but say " thanks GDW I'll pass and thank you for saving me some money" .

Chopstick wrote:
The price may keep going up but the effort are becoming lower, not even a single sprue pic or 360 view for the new stuff on the webstore.

Unless you know exactly how far in advance the photos are done it could be that the staff who do that haven't returned to work yet.

 keas66 wrote:
Well I for one appreciate GDW's efforts to help me break my Warhammer 40K habit . They really are going out of their way and making that extra extra effort to get those prices up to totally outrageous levels .100$ for a Flyer ? I mean what can you do but say " thanks GDW I'll pass and thank you for saving me some money" .

Yeah, I am with you on most things.
I want to try to build the Garden of Moor with my nieces, make a Halloween thing out of it, so i bought that when the new price increases were announced.
They like to paint and so it should be fun.

Otherwise, I focus on painting what I have to paint, which is enough ... but the new boxset has some selling points.

alphaecho wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
The price may keep going up but the effort are becoming lower, not even a single sprue pic or 360 view for the new stuff on the webstore.

Unless you know exactly how far in advance the photos are done it could be that the staff who do that haven't returned to work yet.

Yes, just like your nana’s Etsy store they photograph it just before it goes live...NO, the spruces would be photographed shortly after mastering. Web work can be done from home. GW got lazy—period.

 Chairman Aeon wrote:

alphaecho wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
The price may keep going up but the effort are becoming lower, not even a single sprue pic or 360 view for the new stuff on the webstore.

Unless you know exactly how far in advance the photos are done it could be that the staff who do that haven't returned to work yet.

Yes, just like your nana’s Etsy store they photograph it just before it goes live...NO, the spruces would be photographed shortly after mastering. Web work can be done from home. GW got lazy—period.

Pretty sure they have never gone around photographing plants.

 Chairman Aeon wrote:


Yes, just like your nana’s Etsy store they photograph it just before it goes live...NO, the spruces would be photographed shortly after mastering. Web work can be done from home. GW got lazy—period.

You seem to know a lot about the internal functions of the company. Care to tell us the camera used, what storage medium the photos are taken on, what post-processing tools are used and what part of the network said files are stored on.
'Web' work may be able to be done from home, but some physical photography can not.

 keas66 wrote:
Well I for one appreciate GDW's efforts to help me break my Warhammer 40K habit . They really are going out of their way and making that extra extra effort to get those prices up to totally outrageous levels .100$ for a Flyer ? I mean what can you do but say " thanks GDW I'll pass and thank you for saving me some money" .

It's a pretty thick box with three variants of a flyer in it.

 BroodSpawn wrote:

 Chairman Aeon wrote:


Yes, just like your nana’s Etsy store they photograph it just before it goes live...NO, the spruces would be photographed shortly after mastering. Web work can be done from home. GW got lazy—period.

You seem to know a lot about the internal functions of the company. Care to tell us the camera used, what storage medium the photos are taken on, what post-processing tools are used and what part of the network said files are stored on.
'Web' work may be able to be done from home, but some physical photography can not.

Well we know the camera.

 Togusa wrote:

 keas66 wrote:
Well I for one appreciate GDW's efforts to help me break my Warhammer 40K habit . They really are going out of their way and making that extra extra effort to get those prices up to totally outrageous levels .100$ for a Flyer ? I mean what can you do but say " thanks GDW I'll pass and thank you for saving me some money" .

It's a pretty thick box with three variants of a flyer in it.

The box can be thick but I doubt there is much difference in plastic between all the options just some weapons there or not there between a couple of the variants. The cost of it is intense, we're not paying for " Thick box feels " It's just the ever bloating costs for moar profits while I am sure even at say, 80 which is still high, they'd have pretty good profit. Or, they could just sit back and pull in some of those extra profits from the extra expensive Cavalry units. Might as well claim it costs so much because once you buy it all your dreams will come true. Especially if your dream was to pay a mint for the Davinci Code.

Not sure if anyone's posted yet, one of the guys I play with posted this to our group chat:

Just Szeras? What about the Sister/Harli combo, and the Inquisitor lady? Aren't they Pariah releases as well?

Wow an entire month until Pariah and another few weeks until 9th? I’d of expected both of the other PA’s to come out back to back. Interesting, maybe Lumineth are going up for the rest of June then I guess?

How legit is this btw?

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Wow an entire month until Pariah? I’d of expected both of the other PA’s to come out back to back. Interesting, maybe Lumineth are going up for the rest of June then I guess?

Lumineth were, purportedly, going to be a one week release of the army pack and the other stuff.

There's the Fabius book before Pariah as well. Spider War or whatever it's called.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Wow an entire month until Pariah? I’d of expected both of the other PA’s to come out back to back. Interesting, maybe Lumineth are going up for the rest of June then I guess?

Lumineth were, purportedly, going to be a one week release of the army pack and the other stuff.

Yeah so what’s the rest of June gonna be? Spider PA, Zoat, Lumineth then is there a 4th thing to put in the 4th week?

There's specialist games and Underworlds as well. We're short the last two warbands(Orruks & Daughters of Khaine), the Escher stuff, Zoat, etc.

I think it's safe to say that some things will be pushed back (the Lumineth could be the sacrifice here, along with any specialist things like the Escher book).

Or they could majorly truncate the release of things (like putting the Lumineth out over two weeks rather than 3-4).

The only time limit they have is that they have to get the last three PA books out before 9th, and they appear set on a July release for 9th. Doesn't give them a lot of time.

Lumineth books+cards & Sons of Behemat books+cards cleared US customs pre-COVID shutdown...which means it would have gone to the warehouses for distribution within a week.

And? A lot of stuff cleared customs before the COVID shutdown. Still took 'em ages to put out.

I reckon they might want everything out before 9th, so it can be the big drop it wants to be. So I’d assume Lumineth is next, War of the Spider after that, specialist games shared with that, and then the rest the week after, then July comes. That’s my guess anyway.

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Yeah so what’s the rest of June gonna be? Spider PA, Zoat, Lumineth then is there a 4th thing to put in the 4th week?

Necromunda Escher wave and new Warcry warband.

Don't expect the Khainite Shadowstalker WarCry stuff just yet. That was an Adepticon reveal...and they said it's the first of a new thing.

Escher, Lumineth, and Zoat were earlier.

Aeronautica Imperialis Skies of Fire releases with a FW tie in with resin flyers was due to take place too.

It may account for only 1 week or even just part of 1 week. That's if it hasn't been shelved for later in the year, after 9th ed release now.

I would be surprised if GW left an 8 week gap between announcing 9th edition and releasing the starter set. Appreciating that the Covid situation has kinda messed up their release schedule i was anticipating back to back releases of the last 3 PA books.

We had engine war this weekend and there are 4 more Saturdays between now and the end of June. That should be enough time to release the last two PA books and maybe sprinkle some smaller new releases in too. For example, Deadly Alliance could drop the same weekend as a PA book. This would leave a saturday for the one week Lumineth release and still allow for an early July release for 9th ed. All speculation on my part though.

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Wow an entire month until Pariah and another few weeks until 9th? I’d of expected both of the other PA’s to come out back to back. Interesting, maybe Lumineth are going up for the rest of June then I guess?

How legit is this btw?

I don't really know, he's friends with a local store owner but I haven't seen it anywhere else.

 greyknight12 wrote:

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Wow an entire month until Pariah and another few weeks until 9th? I’d of expected both of the other PA’s to come out back to back. Interesting, maybe Lumineth are going up for the rest of June then I guess?

How legit is this btw?

I don't really know, he's friends with a local store owner but I haven't seen it anywhere else.

Well we’ll see if it’s got any credence tonight, based on what’s being pre-ordered. It does make sense though the more I think about it. Just a painful wait for me new Necrons!

 Kanluwen wrote:
Don't expect the Khainite Shadowstalker WarCry stuff just yet. That was an Adepticon reveal...and they said it's the first of a new thing.

I was thinking more Scions of Flame warband.

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Wow an entire month until Pariah and another few weeks until 9th? I’d of expected both of the other PA’s to come out back to back. Interesting, maybe Lumineth are going up for the rest of June then I guess?

How legit is this btw?

Seems about right. July was likely 9th ed original date anyway. Unlikely they would move it FORWARD due to corona...IF anything it's fast. They got 2 month delay so in june they would get april, may and june out.