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I'm curious to see how many people are standing against Forgeworld still, since the pitchforks and torches seem to have been put down. (I say that with a pinch of disappointment.)

Never actively boycotted them in the first place, never mind "still"

I don't buy a lot from them either way, mostly as there is enough grey plastic and even old metal here to last a lifetime without adding a stack of resin on top of it.

leopard wrote:
Never actively boycotted them in the first place, never mind "still"

I don't buy a lot from them either way, mostly as there is enough grey plastic and even old metal here to last a lifetime without adding a stack of resin on top of it.

Pretty much this. I don't think I've actually bought anything from them but would have no moral objection to doing so.

I am, but if I'm honest...I started boycotting them a long time ago. Their prices have rarely, if ever been justified. But any weakness I'd have had to try them again has disappeared.

I am not boycotting them and never planned to boycott them.

I have cut way back on how much I plan to purchase from them. I had probably a couple thousand GBP worth of stuff that was on my list to pick up over the next few years, but after so many things going LCTB and the price hike I've cut probably 80% of it off my list. That's not the same thing as a boycott though.

Customer of Forgeworld for 20+ years from all the way back to their mail order program. Price increase was nail in the coffin. Wrote them a long, well thought out email with #'s & my concerns for the companies future. Received what might as well have been an automated response. Tbh, its been much easier than I had anticipated. They haven't released any new 40k product in years. Its all Horus Heresy, custodes product. There is actually less product available for 40k players now then there was years ago. Seems they have chosen their target audience and its not Warhammer 40k players.

I have never boycotted Forge World. I have just not found their prices reasonable to buy. I bought one item from Forge World and that was nearly 20 years ago.

Games Workshop I boycotted twice in the Kirby years, both for a full year, and I kept to the boycott.

let me put it this way i have a friend that has always bought some really really really really similar "alternative" models who I used to always give crap too, but on his most recent order of stuff I've placed an order. The amount of cleaning i did on my last FW order was ridiculous for a "premiere" product and the alternatives i bought were of higher quality

I am. I'm not a massive buyer to begin with, but I did have a "get one thing every year" thing going on. That's totally out the window now, and my reservations about buying chinese products have gone out the window.

 vaklor4 wrote:
I am. I'm not a massive buyer to begin with, but I did have a "get one thing every year" thing going on. That's totally out the window now, and my reservations about buying chinese products have gone out the window.

Similar here. I usually buy 2-3 sets of models/year from them, but now I'm going through all other options^TM I can find first.

For me, FW just hasn't really released anything I have wanted for years, and of the stuff I did want, theyve retired most of it (id love to buy more DKoK Grenadiers...but ah....)

So, no boycott on my end as such...but I just don't care about anything they're putting out these days, like the Marine HH stuff, not my bag, doubly so when they're sticking to the atrocious 7E core rules for all of it, nooooo thanks in going back to that hideousness.

Im all for FE inclusion in games, im not actively boycotting them really, but they just dont have anything I want. **** if I'm going to drop a hundred bucks on a single configuration Russ tank.

I wasn't buying from them due to high prices before this mess. Not sure if that counts as boycotting or not. I checked Not boycotting though.

Same as Reemule, their prices went from “too high for me to consider in the first place” to “even higher,” so nothing changed for me. It’s kind of a shame, too. FW makes some really cool stuff, it’s just out of my price range.

Judging by the amount of LCTB a boycott isn’t needed, as no-one was buying in the first place!

MY need for Forge World is limited to 30K material these days.
I am still waiting for the Lion and the First Legion book. For Orks as far as I can tell I have basically everything I want and plan to scratch build or kit bash anything else. Until such time as there are new Ork models from FW and at this time there are not. If I absolutely need a bit for a kit bash I can get most from China if I can't figure out how to make said bit first. Instant gratification and all that.

I wouldn't use the word 'boycott' but I've never actually purchased anything from FW. The closest thing I've got are 2 recast Hornets.
The price has always been an issue, but the deal breaker for me is the accessibility. I'm old fashioned in that I like to go to a store to buy stuff, only recently using eBay for its convenience. I can't buy FW stuff at a store, eBay is even more expensive for FW stuff and the direct shipping takes forever.

Add to the fact that GW already has way, WAY too much variety as-is (in that I can't keep up with what's out there and new) and I can only see the demise of FW as a good thing.
Not boycotting, just glad there will be less to think about.

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I am just a little bit salty about the xenos LCTB. I had been slowly purchasing every Ork model FW made over the last year and I now have almost everything. The Flakka Gunz and Grot Sponsons went LCTB just before 1 AM my time and were sold out by when I woke up at 7 AM (IIRC).

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to get them used or recast.

I've never bought anything from forge world, I'm open to the possiability of doing so but given their prices it needs to be something "truely special" to get me to buy

I've made a few purchases from fw over the years but I will never be again. The price has just gotten to a point of such hilarious disproportion to what you get that I can pretty confidently say I'll just live without it.

I have never bought from forgeworld but I am not actively boycotting it. I just don't feel the need to own anything that they sell when there are enough perfectly good options from gw that are in the codex i already own. Also my group tend not to use bigger models so I am not looking at their super heavies.

Bought some 30k upgrade packs just yesterday.

Not boycotting.

de facto? Yes.

I'm also de facto boycotting GW.

Unless something amazing cool appears, like a return of Dogs of War.

Like many people posted, it's not that I'm actively boycotting them - but with prices 30% higher in the US as a result of their new policies, the end result isn't all that different in that I just won't be purchasing much compared to previously.

Why are we boycotting them?

Not boycotting, in fact I love FW stuff.

That said I feel FW overshadows codex entries too much and too often and therefore I rarely include any these days despite what models I own. Certain guilty pleasures aside (such as arkos).

I personally am not boycotting. Sure, the price increase does sting a little, yet FW still has some nice goodies. Also I never had a problem with quality. So no, no boycott here.

I'm not boycotting but I'd probably not buy anything from them at this point. To expensive and resin is pain to deal with. Not to mention they keep purging models left and right..

It's honestly only a boycott if you bought from them ALL the time.

Based on how few purchases I make, a boycott is silly for me personally. Granted it means I might not get my Mk5 Assault Marines anytime sooner, but I wasn't gonna get them soon anyway.

I'm still planning on buying stuff.

I'm not calling it a 'boycott'. I'm just not doing business with them, because I don't think their products are worth the current pricing model.