Games Workshop Price Hikes and Paywalled Miniatures

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[saffronwand]

This is why I 3D print. 3D printers are not killing GW. GW are killing themselves

[MyMagicalPeanut]

The price hike is a symptom of companies being hog tied by their shareholders. Shareholders don’t care for the wider hobby community it would seem.

[klinesmoker]

This is why I 3D print. An LGS should offer catalogues of miniatures they can print for customers as a means of driving profit. More enterprising stores could even offer custom models.

[ducktergoose]

Resin 3d printers be looking good. 1L of expensive high quality resin or 1 box of Intersessors

[velentr]

_"GW is raising their prizes to their highest point yet! This comes as a complete shock!_
_In other news; water is wet, the sky is blue and corporations are not run by people, but spreadsheets."_

[makinote]

GW had special minis for big boxes since Warhammer Fantasy 6th ed. There was a Wood Elves and Warriors of Chaos army boxes. The battle standard bearers for those two boxes were exclusive from those boxes.

[Norseraider]

Just got a new Creality large FDM printer for terrain as well as a large Anycubic resin printer for figures ❤️❤️❤️

[sirmoth]

The Dread Talons box is actually perfect for me because the cultists, accursed cultists, and dark commune are the three kits you need to make a chaos cults kill team. That plus wanting to add a bunch of warp talons and raptors puts me in a unique position of wanting everything in the box. I doubt many people are with me on that.

[MikChaos]

Bern collecting and playing CSM since 2e. The last new models I bought were big Abby and Harkon Worldclaimer and they're still sealed in their shrink wrap.

[daniellogue]

I actually like the idea of the clash boxes, as standlone armies, the short narrative campaigns

[AlaskanWolf]

The pricing thing is insane, but honestly, I'm a fan of the battalion boxes. I can freely ignore them if I have too many things that I don't want, but if there are things I want in there, I get a bunch of discounted models, causing the prices to go to 'unreasonably expensive' down from 'holy f***' expensive. and if there is an extra squad of stuff I don't want, using it for bits, or tossing it to a friend to get them into the game, or allowing me to do weird things with models I didn't really need is neat.

[akadelnith]

Just play the edition you like now or switch to OPR now. Use any mini you want from any range and don't support them unless you can afford or can't live without that model (I was with 1st edition warcry).

Hey guys make OPR collaborate with your space bears/drop bears and do another release . I'd definitely support you guys for one of those.

[plasticbag]

This is just really frustrating, im supposed to be going with my mom in july to grapevine texas where theres a warhammer cafe but now i feel like i should go buy a bunch now

[jimsutter]

Cadia Stands and the Astra Militarum update came out so late in 9th that I never got to play my guard with their codex rules that edition before 10th edition.

[stylishlyheartless]

What’s worse than the price hikes is the fact that GW also charges 20% extra for Australian’s compared to getting them in the UK or anything

[namewastaken]

I'm nervous about some kits that are actually not to expensive here. I'm planning to get a Questoris Knight as they much cheaper than the others.

[KanzRedDusk]

GW prices are completely unhinged, plastic toy soldiers being more expensive than gold by weight is bogus no matter how you try to justify it. I remember when PLASMO literally gold leafed a Venerable Land Raider and the gold leaf he used still cost less than a Citadel Retributor Gold spray can.

[eXileLies]

The UK, where *everything* GW is located, has been in a recession with just 'now' leaving it, with a 4.5% inflation still. If we were realistic for once, GW prices *should* increase every year by 2-4% to keep up with the inflation. It becoming less affordable to buy Warhammer isn't because GW is increasing prices, it's because real wages & wage increases have been stagnant for quite a while.

Profit before taxation is great, but it is also affected by Inflation. The Inflation rate of the UK - again, everything that is Games Workshop is situated in the UK - in 2023 was 7% and 9% in 2022. Yes, they've made money - duh. But the UK was facing a pretty hefty Recession, with Inflation going up to 11% at times. UK Pounds were & are less money than they ever were. Mentioning Profit before tax, and talking about "minor increases of inflation" while the UK had a cost-of-living crisis, and record breaking inflation, is tone deaf.

[TigerStyleFanMIZ]

When news like this is released, no matter what the industry, I always sarcastically wonder where the money goes.

[iangreen]

Did Murray say " Bollocks "? 😂