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

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Heck, I’d say that a limited release of a big army box (like the sisters of battle) or a 2 player starter set (like shadowspear) is annoying, but the majority has been followed by release of the units involved.

The unit cards and other army specific exclusives (like the dice for gloomspite gitz) have not.

Even their underworld game suffers from the needlessly limited stupidity. Although some units are still technically available (GW webstore only) it effectively puts them out of reach of those who aren’t as obsessed with the hobby in general as we are.

To me that’s the thing that is going to hurt GW in the long run the most, because it kills the collection of armies by anyone not ordering ‘everything’ at release. I got lucky, because I got Molog and Nazbag for my minions. However with effectively half my potential additional units (like the spiders) web-only I have to hope GW still has them in stock on-line when I ‘need’ to buy them. I don’t want to order stuff I don’t even know I could use simply because GW is unreliable for anything other than the 2-3 armies they actually support during the lifetime of a version.

And again … as much as I hate preorders companies and shops doing that should be legally bound to provide the product.(period)
It sucks that a complaint or even legal action is not viable, because these are ‘cheap’ products.
However I do wonder if a public twitter/social media complaint would work for this sort of thing.