Reply To: Overpriced GW

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@zorg I don’t really think other companies do charge the same prices, not when you compare like for like.  Sure, games like Infinity or Malifaux might charge a high price for an individual figure but in such games you need only a small number of them to play the game, each model is almost a character in and of itself.  When you compare multi-part plastic Miniatures produced by Games Workshop to similar items produced by 3rd parties, they come in at between two and three times as expensive based on price per Miniature.

The same price difference, or worse, exists when you then compare Games Workshop’s “entry price” (i.e. what do you need to start playing a basic game) to that of other games, which worsens further when you calculate the cost of going from zero to a standard size army (i.e. a 1500-2000 point army for 40k).  I can’t actually think of a single measure of cost against which Games Workshop can make a favourable comparison, they are always the most expensive option, more often than not by a significant margin.