Reply To: GW: Why do they do it?

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limburger, Games Workshop are a company. They want to sell you things. They don’t, deliberately; not make enough so you lose out. That would be… what’s the word? Oh yes. Stupid.

No, they are not your friends however the same principle applies – you choose to shop with them, or not. You are NOT entitled to something just because you want it. However, if you have completed checkout then they are required, by law to provide it to you (sale of goods act – which is why I dislike Kickstarter). If there is a stock issue you can have the choice to wait, or a refund.

This sense of entitlement is childish and petty. Jamescutts you – and lots of others whinge and whine about the models, the rules, the fluff and yet never before have we had such opportunity to design our own models through 3d printing, BoW themselves offering to promote rules. A truly global audience for our work. Plenty of people like 40K and Warhammer Fantasy will probably return with the Old World project they’re planning. Stop complaining, start doing.

And no, I am not a ‘fan boy’, however much that might salve I do not defend Workshop, I am tired of petulance.

Carlospicter – if Workshop could give everyone what they wanted they would leap at it, thrice over. However supply, resources and scale limit that ability. Write to their customer services and ask them when the items might be in stock again (or buy from others… store dot… something… crop top… something?) and yes, support the little guys.

They don’t hate you heck, they don’t even know you. I’d imagine they’re operating a just in time print and release to minimise the stock held during these weird times.

Workshop have screwed up plenty of times for me and will likely do so again. 6th ed. Codex Chaos Daemons, springs to mind – a direct copy and paste of the 5th ed. At that point I stopped buying the codices. It’s a choice I exercise and the only one Workshop notice.