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Ever wanted to make your voice heard? Want to tell us about your favourite army? Just like free models? The Big Community Survey is an unprecedented opportunity for you to share with us how you hobby - and we'll be sending 5 lucky entrants a £50 voucher to boot. What are you waiting for? Take a few minutes and fill in the survey here (and be sure to share this with any hobbyists you know):

https://tinyurl.com/yb623rac



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I hope lots of folk fill this out, and give detailed and well thought out answers where possible too, GW is doing market research again, let's help make it useful so they continue to do so and expand it

Great survey! I was mostly positive. Ofcourse the answer for the question what I liked the least was the "price". ;-)

Their last question I answered.
Finally Aelves and death. Also a regular human knight that isn't Stormcast would be nice.

Anyway I think it's great what GW is doing!

Did mine, they really have changed, will be interesting if and how this informs future direction.

Yup, answered lower prices to any question it was even half relevant!

Good to see they finally did something like this, would be fascinating to see the results

Answered all of the questions and honestly. Don't imagine much will come of that. I was fair but honest.

Thanks for sharing, it made me think for a bit on some of them, but all in all I asked them to keep up the good work and to keep at it.

Yep, I have done mine. A really good and complete survey. As others I have mentioned the price, and how I encountered warhammer with the Altaya's collection they did during the 1999-2000 in Spain

Thanks for sharing It was quick and fun. I wrote them to create an official forum.

I forgot to ask them to enable comments on youtube, we need to give Duncan praise!

This was one long survey! But it was actually quite well done. Brought back some significant nostalgia (like the 'when did you start playing' question). My only negative thing was FW shipping. As much as I want everything else to be cheaper, it deters me from spending ALL of my money on stuff I may never use...

Did mine. Asked for them to talk more about WHY they make rules decisions. (Eg. Forgeworld points and AOS massive regiments) Asked them to do sales sometimes too. I really hope everyone here completes the form.

Did mine too.. have they ever done that before?

Having to rank my favorite game among them frustrated me. I wanted like... Three 1s, One 2, and 3 7s, lol.

Asked for lower prices and plastic Sisters of Battle. I only demand the impossible.

Good survey, with good optional extras for certain responses (degree of black library consumption, etc)

My gut response for least favourite thing was price, but I had just stated my favourite thing about the models was the degree of customizability and it felt kind of hypocritical of me. On second thought I suggested there's a sense of fractional favouritism where space marines are quite popular because of the support they get, but that support is driven by the fact that they're popular, but at this point even space marine players dread the new hotness that appears with every codex and maybe the other factions would grow a lot more if they got a little love.

I also mentioned plastic sisters a few times.

Filled in. Nice to be able to fill in some nostalgic sections (what other GW games do you play: Epic, BFG, AI!) and I think I banged on a bit about Epic. Forgeworld Shipping prices were up there for criticism and for them to not trash an entire lore. Again.

Interesting that they asked about other companies board games...

 Iron Angel wrote:
Did mine too.. have they ever done that before?

I think the closest thing was the call for questions on rules which resulted in a bunch of FAQ Answer at the end of 7th - it's great that they went with a proper survey this time instead of asking stuff via facebook (which excludes people without FB and is just a horrible format to do anything but post links to videos and images)

The survey surprised me with how long and in-depth it was, very well done. Glad I could finally tell them to increase points on Chaos Marines back to unplayable levels while buffing my favourite toys - erm, I mean, balance the game properly!

On FW shipping: My biggest beef with FW is that they promote bundles all the time that save you literally nothing. "Hey, buy this Sicaran bundle for 158 pound" instead of just buying both tanks in that deal on their own - at 79 pounds each. It's just insulting.

Did mine. Was a surprisingly comprehensive survey. Didn't ask about price as that's a waste of time. Asked them about plastic sisters and about combining the sites into one to A) make it simpler to find products without having to switch and B) to amalgamate the shipping costs to get rid of the BS shipping Forge World does.

 zedmeister wrote:
Interesting that they asked about other companies board games...

I thought so too. They're looking to see what's popular with their player base, I wonder if it's to avoid introducing things that would be stifled by the popularity of those games or if they're looking to directly compete with them?

nekooni wrote:

 Iron Angel wrote:
Did mine too.. have they ever done that before?

I think the closest thing was the call for questions on rules which resulted in a bunch of FAQ Answer at the end of 7th - it's great that they went with a proper survey this time instead of asking stuff via facebook (which excludes people without FB and is just a horrible format to do anything but post links to videos and images)

The survey surprised me with how long and in-depth it was, very well done. Glad I could finally tell them to increase points on Chaos Marines back to unplayable levels while buffing my favourite toys - erm, I mean, balance the game properly!

Ah ok.. I did not play in 7th. so I had no idea about that.
Yes it was a very well done survey indeed. I asked them to be more open with the process they price units points wise and that Slaanesh needs some love too xD.

 Iron Angel wrote:
Did mine too.. have they ever done that before?

Not for a long time, I remember filling in pen and paper surveys towards the beginning of my hobby life but not really since the internet was a thing


Edit: and while price was also at the top of my dislikes I tried to also give an alternate answer too so they had something they were more likely to address to look at as well

GW doing market research? That deserves to be rewarded with an honest and mostly positive contribution.

Oddly enough I didn't complain about price, but quality instead. I'm willing to pay good money for good quality.

And now that they know I want plastic Sisters, I'm sure we'll get new Squats real soon.

 Sqorgar wrote:
Asked for lower prices and plastic Sisters of Battle. I only demand the impossible.

Damm I forgot about Plastic Sisters!

 Galas wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
Asked for lower prices and plastic Sisters of Battle. I only demand the impossible.

Damm I forgot about Plastic Sisters!

I would have asked about that too.. but I would prefer Astra Militarum Renegades of Slaanesh instead (of course also the other lesser chaos gods too if they so choose ), which is something I would actually buy.

 Geifer wrote:
GW doing market research? That deserves to be rewarded with an honest and mostly positive contribution.

Oddly enough I didn't complain about price, but quality instead. I'm willing to pay good money for good quality.

And now that they know I want plastic Sisters, I'm sure we'll get new Squats real soon.

Yeah - my complaints are mostly "dishonest deals on FW" and "write proper rules and stop the power creep from turning early codicies into laughing stocks". The prices are ok'ish if you consider that GW has a level of quality few achieve at all, and none do in plastic. And while sure, I can buy better-looking Guardsmen (and Guardswomen!) from Victoria, they're like 50 USD for an infantry squad. Basic infantry.

 Galas wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
Asked for lower prices and plastic Sisters of Battle. I only demand the impossible.

Damm I forgot about Plastic Sisters!

Don't worry. So did GW.

My first thought was “£50 up for grabs? Sure.” but actually a very comprehensive and well designed survey.

For the least favourite part I didn’t go for direct price, but the cost of having to have so many different books and supplements.

And I gave them positive feedback on Warhammer Community and Facebook pages in the anything else section.

Good job GW, hope you get some useful feedback (and not too much butt hurt!)

Edit: I wonder if Roundtree had been planning to do this from the start, but wanted to have some time playing nicely first, so that the survey didn’t get swamped in “GW you suck!!!” comments?

 Geifer wrote:
I'm sure we'll get new Squats real soon.

Feck, I forgot to ask for more Squats!

Filled it in. Was honest. Battlefleet Gothic as other games (would love to see a full return of that)

I filled it out too, asking for plastic resculpts of old models and no more "one click" bundles with no discount. Apart from Australia and New Zealand, as well as a few select models, I don't think their prices are that bad. I'd buy more if they were cheaper, sure, but apart from recasters (who save money by using others' work and only doing the casting) you don't get the same quality for that much cheaper. And many recasters don't even do a very good job.

I also thanked Rountree, things have improved a lot since he took over.