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Sold out within 7min here in Canada

 FragTheCommissar wrote:
lol it looks like its completely sold out already.
The page was literally available for like, 10 minutes before it sold out. That beat the 15 minute record for the UK.

Seemed closer to 15 to me. But it crashed to the maintenance page several times, so its harder to say than it should be.
It took about 10 minutes to actually go up in the first place, which didn't help.

Voss wrote:

 FragTheCommissar wrote:
lol it looks like its completely sold out already.
The page was literally available for like, 10 minutes before it sold out. That beat the 15 minute record for the UK.

Seemed closer to 15 to me. But it crashed to the maintenance page several times, so its harder to say than it should be.
It took about 10 minutes to actually go up in the first place, which didn't help.

It went up at about 10:13am here.
I refreshed the page at 10:24am and it was sold out.

Needless to say, I'm glad I didn't sleep through this one.

Bloody rubbing it in a bit!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/11/indomitus-pre-orders-are-live/

As someone who missed out I think I'm done with this company for good. Great game I've played from the beginning of its existence but what Games Workshop has become.... infuriating.. I'm more mad at the company than happy with the game at this point.

The grievously rude and distasteful warhammer community post is a true gob of spit in the eye of all those who missed out. The shoddy website meant thousands could not get this box. And now they have the temerity to put a post on their main social website saying pre order now when the box has been out of stock since 10.14 this morning is a real kick in the teeth. They should be ashamed conducting business in this way it's so anti consumer and hurts the community as a whole.

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 Asmodai wrote:
Looks like it sold out in North America in -4 minutes due to going up early.

I was on 15min early and watched the change over to preorder. The boxset never showed up. Or it sold out in 1sec.

No, it showed up. Didn't last long, but it showed up & I had the chance to order it.

I really don't think they're doing this intentionally. It simply wouldn't make any sense. Sure, scarcity can increase the demand, but this thing is a sure seller. They could have easily sold many, many times more if they had what to sell. It must be a production capacity issue, no doubt worsened by the plague.

Keep checking- looking like they may have opened the orders up again....

what a joke

Looks like they limited it to 1 order per GW account at least for the US. Good thing I created another new account with my payment info ready to go this morning before they went live. Box showed up like 8 minutes after 1:00 pm eastern. Managed to grab 2 of them im one lucky SOAB.

BlackOllie wrote:
As someone who missed out I think I'm done with this company for good. Great game I've played from the beginning of its existence but what Games Workshop has become.... infuriating.. I'm more mad at the company than happy with the game at this point.

You do realize that you didn't really miss out, right? Sure, you missed it right now. You missed a discount. But this stuff (the units) WILL be released in the near future.

And yes I will be painting and using all of the models, no ebay for these models : P

I hope this is true

That community article would've been written a week ago. It was always going to go up, just as all their "pre-orders are live now" articles go up.

And it seems some people bought quite a few boxes. Like... a lot of boxes.

 Crusaderobr wrote:
Looks like they limited it to 1 order per GW account at least for the US. Good thing I created another new account with my payment info ready to go this morning before they went live. Box showed up like 8 minutes after 1:00 pm eastern. Managed to grab 2 of them im one lucky SOAB.

Good job on being a selfish SOAB and circumventing the limitation and thus preventing someone from getting the one box they wanted. The one box limit was there for a reason.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:


And it seems some people bought quite a few boxes. Like... a lot of boxes.

FFS! Disgusting.

Icegoat wrote:
The grievously rude and distasteful warhammer community post is a true gob of spit in the eye of all those who missed out. The shoddy website meant thousands could not get this box. And now they have the temerity to put a post on their main social website saying pre order now when the box has been out of stock since 10.14 this morning is a real kick in the teeth. They should be ashamed conducting business in this way it's so anti consumer and hurts the community as a whole.

Not seeing what is rude or distasteful about the Warcom post. You do realize that all of these posts, facebook/social media included, are pre-scheduled in advance, right? If those posts are going up after the box is already sold out it absolutely is not intentional.

Oh look the haves and have nots. The got its and the missed outs. GW will be popping the champagne tonight at fooling all the rubes. They will have made millions while thousands of there loyal customers miss out because GW have done it again and under produced their latest exclusive timed box. None of these models are releasing later. Different versions will be ut these models are indomitus exclusive. That skele shield captain is going to be worth hundreds in a few months.

 Crimson wrote:
I really don't think they're doing this intentionally. It simply wouldn't make any sense. Sure, scarcity can increase the demand, but this thing is a sure seller. They could have easily sold many, many times more if they had what to sell. It must be a production capacity issue, no doubt worsened by the plague.

The thing is, GW can only make so much of a singular product before it impacts the rest of their production capacity. They specifically stated that they had made a bunch but....its supposed to be limited, it's not a starter & wont be around for ever.
Scalpers specifically take advantage of psychology and a certain subset of the population that mentally breaks down when they miss out(awww poor baby, didnt get the toy they wanted).
If every scapler has 5-6 accounts and there are 2 scalpers for every single non-scapler it really doesnt matter how many they make.

As much as I would like to heap all of the blame on GW for under-producing, most of the blame is squarely on the scalpers & those that directly support their efforts.

 Crimson wrote:

 Crusaderobr wrote:
Looks like they limited it to 1 order per GW account at least for the US. Good thing I created another new account with my payment info ready to go this morning before they went live. Box showed up like 8 minutes after 1:00 pm eastern. Managed to grab 2 of them im one lucky SOAB.

Good job on being a selfish SOAB and circumventing the limitation and thus preventing someone from getting the one box they wanted. The one box limit was there for a reason.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:


And it seems some people bought quite a few boxes. Like... a lot of boxes.

FFS! Disgusting.

I dont think its selfish at all. My friend and I have been playing since 2001. Hes had Necrons since 3rd edition and wanted 2 boxes. I said eh why not ill get 2 and well split it because I can actually use the models. If my friend didnt want 2 boxes id happily sell it at $200 to a forum member who needed it and would actually play it and paint them. The whole system is messed up, and with the way things are your just lucky enough to get what you can if you refresh the page every hour since 9:00 am on the hour like I did. It took alot of time out of my day and im excited to play with the new models. GW needs to stop making limited edition boxes that sell out right away. Also, most likely that box would have gone to an ebay scalper. I dont feel bad at all. Peace out fellow 40k players.

Icegoat wrote:
A bunch of amateur incompetents this is is a multi million dollar company and theyve failed to have enough stock or have a working website how many people have failed to get this due to GWs website not working throughout the day. It's a complete shambles a disgrace.

Whatever you do NEVER become a PC gamer and try to use the Steam store at the start of a Steam Sale.

Also I'd advise avoiding ANY MMO game during its first week to two weeks of launch because if you think GW is bad for crashes on websites due to insanely abnormal and high load levels then you've seen nothing yet.

I'd also note that my experience today was the GW store remained running and glitched a bit here and there; almost every other major 3rd party gamer store outright broke.


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 Crusaderobr wrote:
GW needs to stop making limited edition boxes that sell out right away. Also, most likely that box would have gone to an ebay scalper. I dont feel bad at all. Peace out fellow 40k players.

Remember these boxes are not unique boxes they are discount boxes. So in GW's view its not a problem that some people didn't get them, because they will be able to buy the models when they go on regular retail sale. The issue of missed chances is simply missing out on a deal rather than the actual product. Of course one might also have to wait longer (or buy secondhand from split sets which the market seems to have a very good number of at present).

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 Crimson wrote:
I really don't think they're doing this intentionally. It simply wouldn't make any sense. Sure, scarcity can increase the demand, but this thing is a sure seller. They could have easily sold many, many times more if they had what to sell. It must be a production capacity issue, no doubt worsened by the plague.

The thing is, GW can only make so much of a singular product before it impacts the rest of their production capacity. They specifically stated that they had made a bunch but....its supposed to be limited, it's not a starter & wont be around for ever.
Scalpers specifically take advantage of psychology and a certain subset of the population that mentally breaks down when they miss out(awww poor baby, didnt get the toy they wanted).
If every scapler has 5-6 accounts and there are 2 scalpers for every single non-scapler it really doesnt matter how many they make.

As much as I would like to heap all of the blame on GW for under-producing, most of the blame is squarely on the scalpers & those that directly support their efforts.

Couldn't agree more. Is it right to support a company that assists in creating this environment by enabling it to happen though?

nekooni wrote:

Pandabeer wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'd say that the community hyping themselves into yet another frenzy of "THESE THINGS WON'T BE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE EVER!" and "OMFG THESE THINGS ARE BROKEN!" did the job better than GW ever could have.

And as usual, you blame the players in your desperate attempts to defend poor GW.

Do we actually KNOW why it sold out in 15 minutes? Is it really GW knowingly producing less boxes than predicted demand? Was it GW simply underestimating demand? Did corona had anything to do with it? (probably yes because they had to shut down exactly in the weeks you'd expect factories to be running at 200% to produce as many boxes as possible for a July release) Are there simply a large amount of boxes reserved for retail? All possible reasons.

GW tested the water with the SoB box and should've known better, honestly.
If you've not reached your production goal you should postpone a launch or move away from the "one round of boxes, that's it" idiocy that is limited edition boxes. Two easy fixes to this mess.

The two boxes I bought are now split by 4 people - 3 marine players and one guy starting a new necron army. Not exactly 'hyped into a frenzy", is it?

You don't just postpone a release as big as this one. There's a lot of money that has gone into design and production and then there's also been the corona-shutdown. As for the limited edition thing, GW is selling these extremely cheap. If this box was around permanently they'd have to mark up the price by 75-100 euro's (why is my euro-sign not working? ) because permanently selling this box for 155 euro would be insanity. But well, let's hope the rumors about a second wave of boxes are true so I can get one as well

 Crusaderobr wrote:


I dont think its selfish at all. My friend and I have been playing since 2001. Hes had Necrons since 3rd edition and wanted 2 boxes. I said eh why not ill get 2 and well split it because I can actually use the models. If my friend didnt want 2 boxes id happily sell it at $200 to a forum member who needed it and would actually play it and paint them. The whole system is messed up, and with the way things are your just lucky enough to get what you can if you refresh the page every hour since 9:00 am on the hour like I did. It took alot of time out of my day and im excited to play with the new models. GW needs to stop making limited edition boxes that sell out right away. Also, most likely that box would have gone to an ebay scalper. I dont feel bad at all. Peace out fellow 40k players.

If you're splitting them your friend, then that indeed is different, as that effectively is getting one box per person.

Though I feel GW should police the limit by shipping address instead of by account, as then it would be harder for scalpers to circumvent the limit. You circumventing it and getting an extra box for your friend is not a problem, a scalper circumventing it and getting hundred boxes most definitely is.

 Crimson wrote:

 Crusaderobr wrote:


I dont think its selfish at all. My friend and I have been playing since 2001. Hes had Necrons since 3rd edition and wanted 2 boxes. I said eh why not ill get 2 and well split it because I can actually use the models. If my friend didnt want 2 boxes id happily sell it at $200 to a forum member who needed it and would actually play it and paint them. The whole system is messed up, and with the way things are your just lucky enough to get what you can if you refresh the page every hour since 9:00 am on the hour like I did. It took alot of time out of my day and im excited to play with the new models. GW needs to stop making limited edition boxes that sell out right away. Also, most likely that box would have gone to an ebay scalper. I dont feel bad at all. Peace out fellow 40k players.

If you're splitting them your friend, then that indeed is different, as that effectively is getting one box per person.

Though I feel GW should police the limit by shipping address instead of by account, as then it would be harder for scalpers to circumvent the limit. You circumventing it and getting an extra box for your friend is not a problem, a scalper circumventing it and getting hundred boxes most definitely is.

Couldent agree more. I really hate ebay scalpers. If someone told me I was in the same room as one, id punch him right in the face and break his nose.

But dark imperium contained plenty of models never went out of stock and wasnt scalped to high heaven?? Indomitus is a complete sham and scam. They under produced this amazingly good value box set. Hyped it for months. Limited the preorders and told everyone it was a must buy. It's entirely on GW that this happened.

No luck here.

I honestly wouldent worry too much if you missed out. They will realize they need to make more and it will go up for sale again. Just keep your eyes peeled in the coming days/weeks.

Icegoat wrote:
But dark imperium contained plenty of models never went out of stock and wasnt scalped to high heaven?? Indomitus is a complete sham and scam. They under produced this amazingly good value box set. Hyped it for months. Limited the preorders and told everyone it was a must buy. It's entirely on GW that this happened.

If it was your birthday, the sun was shining, and world peace was achieved, would you consider writing a single positive post?

 Crusaderobr wrote:
I honestly wouldent worry too much if you missed out. They will realize they need to make more and it will go up for sale again. Just keep your eyes peeled in the coming days/weeks.

aah yes just like the sob box and the looncurse and the feast of bones box did??? Why are you even defending this. They are not producing more and if they could why didn they before the pre order? If they wanted to produce more they easily could have the fact they didnt is very telling. Heck if they are making more why would it go out of stock print on demand for ever and ever a million boxes a million million. No GW have once again created false hype and false exclusivity to maximise profits and screw their loyal customers


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Also I note the pre order community post has been taken down I'm sure a mea culpa is on it's way. Oh whoops we didnt realise anyone would want this box how shocking for us oh well we will make more next time we make a box. Sickening.

Icegoat wrote:

 Crusaderobr wrote:
I honestly wouldent worry too much if you missed out. They will realize they need to make more and it will go up for sale again. Just keep your eyes peeled in the coming days/weeks.

aah yes just like the sob box and the looncurse and the feast of bones box did??? Why are you even defending this. They are not producing more and if they could why didn they before the pre order? If they wanted to produce more they easily could have the fact they didnt is very telling. Heck if they are making more why would it go out of stock print on demand for ever and ever a million boxes a million million. No GW have once again created false hype and false exclusivity to maximise profits and screw their loyal customers

Looncurse, Feast of Bones and Sisters of Battle are indeed out of production.
ALL Of the models that were present in those sets are, however, now on individual model sale. You can go right now and buy them from the GW website.

The only exception is some of the SOB models are being sold now as full kits not as single pushfits so there is some sculpt variation, though the complete sets have way more parts and options to them so many would consider them an improvement.

So sure GW only makes short term sales - short term. However the models are all on individual sale. The Primaris and Necron content you'll be able to one day go into your GW store or online or to a 3rd party and buy them fresh off the shelf in a box. Some, like the 4 legged necron walker, will likely even come with optional parts to make other variations and some might be put into a getting started set for some discount (eg warriors)