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Seems Games Workshop is doing very well with their minature sales, as reported in this Guardian article.


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Has success ever made anyone less douchey?I wonder if success will make them more or less douchey.
Children are the most successful in turning people less douche in my experience. When you suddenly have to put someone else's needs way out in front of your own it can have a transformative effect.Has success ever made anyone less douchey?
At the very least, they make you too exhausted to be actively douchey.Children are the most successful in turning people less douche in my experience. When you suddenly have to put someone else's needs way out in front of your own it can have a transformative effect.
At the very least, they make you too exhausted to be actively douchey.
To be fair, until the late '80s, Games Workshop was a very cool company, and White Dwarf was a must-buy magazine. They were putting out stuff for RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu, and Stormbringer. They created WFRP. The Fiend Folio, one of the coolest D&D monster books, is just repackaged stuff from White Dwarf.One of the great successes of my life to date is I never bought into, played seriously, or spent money on, anything having to do with Games Workshop.
I can't really conceive of rejecting earlier creations by a company or individual because they later made inferior products. You shut yourself out of most of the good stuff that ever existed that way.Just because you run a great race at the beginning doesn't excuse you when you peter out, trip, and fall towrds the end.
Sorry, I'm being an asshole here. But it's a pet peeve of mine. I don't care what a company did two decades ago. I care about what it's doing now (cough GURPS cough Palladium cough).
I'll show myself out.![]()
No worries. We are just talking here.I'll add that I'm not trying to be critical of Warhammer fans. Not at all. Truth is I'm envious. Warhammer, especially W4K, looks like amazing fun. I just can't get over some things about the company.
I apologize if I was offensive or coming across too harshly. I seem to be in dick mode this morning. I'll dial it back.
You can hate on 40k all you want because It has almost nothing to do with the early 80's GW. Think of early 80's GW as pre #100 Dragon magazine. Not enough GW or TSR stuff to fill a magazine so they covered the whole industry. The Golden age of both magazines. GW even more so since as I recall they licensed a lot of other people's stuff.I'll add that I'm not trying to be critical of Warhammer fans. Not at all. Truth is I'm envious. Warhammer, especially W4K, looks like amazing fun. I just can't get over some things about the company.
I apologize if I was offensive or coming across too harshly. I seem to be in dick mode this morning. I'll dial it back.
I can't really conceive of rejecting earlier creations by a company or individual because they later made inferior products. You shut yourself out of most of the good stuff that ever existed that way.
...cynical money machines.
For a moment, reading this, I thought you were about to segue into the Diff'rent Strokes theme.What's right for me certainly isn't right for anyone else...
For a moment, reading this, I thought you were about to segue into the Diff'rent Strokes theme.
For a moment, reading this, I thought you were about to segue into the Diff'rent Strokes theme.
My own Sudden Derp posts aside, serous question:
GW is making a lot of money. Baudlerstone and Bunch, by your own admission, you've stated that old GW > than current GW.
Why is GW making money if the quality of its products and corporate temperament have degenerated?
They aren't shoveling the money into my account.What's wrong with cynical money machines?![]()
My own Sudden Derp posts aside, serous question:
GW is making a lot of money. Baudlerstone and Bunch, by your own admission, you've stated that old GW > than current GW.
Why is GW making money if the quality of its products and corporate temperament have degenerated?
And I had my "Watchu talking bout, Willis?" GIF ready to respond and everything!I was about to, but I realized I should only deploy that level of meme when I'm in top form.![]()
A lot of my bad feeling about GW comes from managing a game store. That's for sure.Of course, their treatment of retailers doesn't seem to have improved![]()
Of course, their treatment of retailers doesn't seem to have improved![]()
Baulderstone said:Well, they switched markets. They went from RPGs to selling collectible games.
As i recall, at one point it was virtually impossible for a non GW house store to sell minis. And that was right after a long period where retailers had built up the brand and loyalty. So if you were in retail when they pulled access of a top line it really sucked.They’ve reversed their inoperable restrictions on online retailers, but other than that what do they do different from any other franchise store?
As i recall, at one point it was virtually impossible for a non GW house store to sell minis. And that was right after a long period where retailers had built up the brand and loyalty. So if you were in retail when they pulled access of a top line it really sucked.
Yeah they changed back sometime between 2004 and 2007. I think it burned a number of retailers who had focused on WH40k only to see all their work go straight over to a company store once they'd built it up.I have 3 stores in my area that carry GW so that must not be the case currently. I do know they have several requirements for selling their products, to do with the display space and such, but that’s pretty normal. I worked at a Pharmacy a while ago and you’d be amazed at the requirements big lines of pills and makeup have in stores carrying their product
I didn't carry them in the Chicago store that I ran for that reason. They were already notorious for opening a store next door to anyone that made the mistake of selling their products too well.Yeah they changed back sometime between 2004 and 2007. I think it burned a number of retailers who had focused on WH40k only to see all their work go straight over to a company store once they'd built it up.
Of course, their treatment of retailers doesn't seem to have improved![]()
I had a buddy that owned a RPG/COmic shop for a while. Thought about carrying Warhammer for a second. Till he saw the requirements to carry it. Egads, I don't recall the exact numbers money wise. I just remember it being huge. At least in all of our eyes.A lot of my bad feeling about GW comes from managing a game store. That's for sure.
Thats is so lame.I didn't carry them in the Chicago store that I ran for that reason. They were already notorious for opening a store next door to anyone that made the mistake of selling their products too well.
What was funny is that the same guy would always come in and ask for GW products an hour before their rep called to hard sell me on carrying their stuff. Every time. And he never came in my store any other time. It was such a cheap and transparent move.
April 1978...
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fun fact, at the first store opening they did a limited run of a miniature that was given away at the door and never recast. The infamous "Manchester Rabbit" now goes for upwards of $1000 when one can actually find one for sale.