Originally Posted by
Ray Rivers
If all they wanted was sales, then they would offer crappy plastic minis like you find in games such as Zombicide.
In a total saturated market, that's insane. People don't need to go GW shops to play warhammer. They don't need to buy GW products either and many, if not most probably don't.
Let's say you are running a GW shop, which would you prefer 1) a group of 20 folks who take up a bunch of room playing on your gaming boards who don't buy any product or 2) a handful of folks who drop by every now and then for a pick-up game but every time they walk into your store are buying product?
I would choose number 2. Sorry, paying customers first.
And that is why all this babble going on about how nobody is playing AoS in the local shop over at Dakka Dakka is total trivia. I mean, dam n, if you believe all the crap on the net, then Ron Paul should be President of the United States.
The bottom line for everyone to understand is that GW isn't interested in growing an already saturated market, it is carving out it's own profitable niche in fantasy wargaming. When I changed from Coke to Pepsi, my sales remained steady, but because the price of the product was 25% less, my profit increased, but then again my business model is High Volume, Low Prices.
And the niche they are creating is totally unique. If you want to play AoS or are interested in their product, you need GW. If, OTOH you want to play Warhammer, Frostgrave or pretty much ANY fantasy game, you don't need GW to do that. I repeat, you do not need GW to do that, so why should they pander to you?
So yea Eric, if you're not interested in what GW has to offer... and really what could they offer to you that everyone else hasn't ripped off from the company already... they are not really interested in you either, nor would I be.
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THAT is the problem with these miniatures...
So a normal Joe like me who ends up with eyes watering and headaches trying to paint these tinsy bitsy details on Infinity models all of a sudden finds he can actually see and paint ALL the details if we wants without all that suffering and have a fantastic result...
THAT is the problem with these miniatures...
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