Reply To: Cursed City

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Well they’ve deleted the game from their website completely (never seen them do that before), thus without the usual hint of “No longer available online” (FOMO) or “Temporarily out of stock online” (Stock item) who knows….

But I do think this seems to have been a last minute decision, as many retailers who cut off pre-orders for this weeks release had re-opened pre-orders for “wave 2” shipping of the boxed game (so they were under the impression it was going to be a line item as well). Alas yet again this leaves local retailers hit with merchant repayment charges for card payments as GW stiff them yet again and STILL can’t let their vendors know how much stock they can have (ofc GW know how much they themselves are getting so don’t get hit with having to make repayments or dealing with frustrated customers).

“GW in danger of sliding back into the customer-hostile bad old days.”

They’ve been there a while if you are a customer of any of the specialist games range (Necromunda, Bloodbowl, Adeptus Titanicus etc). It’s been constant FOMO marketing and messed up/rewritten rules for years now (just to sell you the latest edition/codex). If you want any products for these games you HAVE to be at GW’s beck and call and be at your keyboard at 10am on Saturdays (as they usually sell out within 10-20 minutes).

And the scalpers have been busy (as usual), but strangely at the moment the game seems to be selling on there for around twice the RRP (which is lower than usual). HOWEVER with the latest news that Cursed City has moved from being a line item to “limited/OOP” I expect the prices to sky rocket over the next few days (which should have the scalpers cackling with glee 🙁 )