Reply To: GW: Why do they do it?

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GW barely hold stock for their main line 40k and AoS factions …

Half the stuff for most factions is ‘web only’.

It is obvious that the boxed games are just a thing they do to fill their pockets with easy cash at minimal effort.
They’re like Google and MS : you can’t trust them to support anything they do outside of their core products.

The one advantage that GW has is that their setting / style is so unique you can’t find alternates that can work with anything they do (and that is before you consider the lack of standard scale definitions within this industry).

[yes … I know there’s a few, but unless you are on websites / communities like OTT you won’t hear about them … and you certainly won’t hear it from the GW ad magazines … ]
GW is excellent at ensuring people get locked into their bubble.
And until we can find a way to pop that bubble and show newbies that there is more diverse stuff out there this sillyness continues.

It’s a damned shame we can’t punish them for being a monopoly … because technically they do have competitors.