Reply To: Is GW's constant "limited release" marketing starting to bite back?

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These short term releases are certainly coming with an inflated price tag that’s for sure. I personally think that people in the near future are certainly going to think twice before making GW purchases.

let’s be honest here, most gamers play more than one game system, and probably those games are from a mixture of companies. This is healthy for our hobby as it gives us choice at the same time making companies strive to make their products better. Let’s face it that’s how businesses work and all of this trying to make a profit.

GWs vast release schedules is taking an ever increasing share of the market, after all on average we only have a certain amount of money we spend on our hobby each month and if your into GWs constant Saturday releases then that is going to take your money away from purchasing products from other great companies. Perhaps that’s their plan, for the people who only play / buy GW they will always continue to do so, so their target audience is those who like me dabble in their games and other companies products. They are trying to make sure I spend my hobby money solely on their products. For someone who has been in this hobby for well over 35 years I have seen GW do this many times. This is not healthy competition, this will eventually lead to companies having to either sell or completely disappear altogether, this is something I would not want to see.

I could wax lyrical about this for hours, but to answer the original question, I hope so.