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As someone who used to visit the GW site several years ago for terrain-building ideas, but now a relatively new 40K guy, I am wondering where all the hobby content went? Is it just me- or didn't the site used to have much more additional articles on painting, hobby and lore? Maybe its just my perception but I feel like there use to be a lot more "meat" there for hobbyists.

Hehehe... i HATE the new gw site... But theres a site you can use to get the old stuff although its missing many pics. http://web.archive.org/web/20070830062759/http://us.games-workshop.com/

there is still some stuff, but a lot of the old stuff is gone, as is all of Black Gobbo.

The current site is built purely for sales, which isn't a bad idea, but I think it's also become less of a destination for veteran hobbyists.

I am also befuddled by the "not optimized for Internet Explorer" greeting from the GW site. Now I know there are some Mozilla and Safari folks out there, but what percentage of users come to the site with IE loaded?- the vast majority I am sure. For a site 'built for sales' that seems utterly silly. Does someone at GW have a sophmorish anti-Microsoft beef or are they just not thinking?

Gareson wrote:I am also befuddled by the "not optimized for Internet Explorer" greeting from the GW site. Now I know there are some Mozilla and Safari folks out there, but what percentage of users come to the site with IE loaded?- the vast majority I am sure. For a site 'built for sales' that seems utterly silly. Does someone at GW have a sophmorish anti-Microsoft beef or are they just not thinking?

I don't have any numbers, but from my experience a hell of a lot of people have switched to Firefox in the last few years. Actually, I was one of the last ones to do so, and presently I know nobody - no hyperbole! - who uses IE anymore.


Edit: Ah, and the GW site... it's not so nice anymore, unfortunately. I liked the old one, which was more like a real website, not a webshop. But whatever There's a lot of good pages dedicated to 40K.

I use IE <_< but err I totally agree its built on sales... But I would like it if they had alot of the old stuff they had. At least there still is the old site

Have you tried the Wayback Machine?



Ghidorah

It just surprises me that a company that is so cutting edge in terms of its product line and marketing, has such a "ho hum" website. I mean, I like the pics of the figures, but you'd expect more content to embellish game systems that are 20 years old by now.

As for "most people I know have switched to Firefox"- that may be so for you, but I guarantee that the vast majority of visitors to the GW site are using IE- I'd love to know why they aren't optimized for the world's most used browser.
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It's a webstore now. I refuse to call it the GW "website" as there's nothing of any value on it whatsoever, it's just a shopping cart.

My browser is so old I soon wont be allowed to go on youtube