Reply To: Indomitus alocations to stores is already "sold out" world wide

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Regardless of individual opinions, my own included, there is a lot going on at the moment and all sorts of things that can get in the way. I live in Canada currently, and there are constant issues with supply here from almost all companies simply due to location. Australia and New Zealand are similar, or worse, and anything going into or out of American at the moment was subject to madness even before The Event (stay indoors) happened. Maybe GW could have delayed their launch until a better time, maybe they made a calculation that made them more profits but it is what it is. Like has been said many times here; we influence with our wallets. If we want to invest, we invest, if not then we don’t. Personally, I didn’t like how it was being presented, so I didn’t buy into it. Are those models amazing? Yes. Would I like them? Yes. But I made the choice to not put my money into it because I simply did not have the desire, or really budget, to do so. Comparisons to what other companies are doing are interesting, but something to consider there is that GW is the top of the market. If other companies want to compete for a share of the market, they have to engage the market in different ways. I collect from a fairly broad range of companies these days (not as many as some) and each I find has their ups and downs and that’s how I see it. These kind of conversations can cause a bit of division and I feel that it’s always a good idea to throw in the age old rule of ‘it’s YOUR hobby’. That’s not to say you can’t be upset about how this was done or be upset about someone being upset. I’m upset about it, if I’m honest. I love the worlds that GW has created over the years, I love the minis they’ve come out with over the years (ok, not all of them, but name a range that large that you love 100% of the minis in 😛 ), but to me they are pricing me out of their market and that turns me away from them as a company a bit. That’s just me, though. Someone else may think differently, and that’s ok. At the end of the day, a business survives on customer engagement and if you lose a few customers but maintain a better profit line then the company will likely do that. I don’t like it, but it is what it is. All businesses put a value on a customer, but remember that the value is usually a monetary one, more and more so these days because of the stupid idea that Business Schools are important (but that’s not a rant for here).

In short, I wanted to write this just as a reminder that regardless of our opinions on an individual level we each make our own part of this shared hobby of ours. Some of use are browsers who collect a bit of everything, some of us dive deep into one area of historicals, some of us leap whole heartedly into the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. But all those parts together form our mad hobby of moving toy soldiers are a board, or a table, or a shelf. Sometimes we choose one company for those toys, sometimes we choose many, sometimes we have questionable obsessions with badgers or wookies.

Each of you enjoy your own little corner of madness the way you wish, and I’m glad that everything went smoothly for the OTT team, @warzan!