Thexy pink spathe marinesth thell out…

[grantinvanman 2469xp 0]

So I picked up the Emperor’s Children army box a few weeks ago, and pre-orders for the EC went up at 2200hrs my time.

I use two stores mostly – one in Ontario, one in Quebec.

The Ontario one had items sold out in under 5 minutes.

I got what I wanted from the Quebec shop, but in under 20 minutes, many items are now sold through.

GW’s supply chain is a shambles! People who don’t know about the secret night before orders, will wake up tomorrow and not be able to get stuff.

Bonkers!

[limburger 21906xp 1]

I’d say GW’s suppy chain issues are intentional.

They thrive on FOMO

You really need to be part of the ‘in crowd’ to gain access to anything the moment they announce new products.

I find it much more enjoyable to walk into a real shop and buy stuff when I see it as opposed to joining a virtual queue just to have a chance at pre-ordering.

Heck, the name ‘pre order’ is wrong as that implies that there will be enough no matter how many folk sign up.

With Mantic and Warlord the pre-order is exactly that. And there’s time to buy stuff once it goes retail afterwards.
GW products simply won’t be available for sale if you missed that ‘pre order’ window.

Even if the game was good and didn’t suffer from bloated rules and day-1 patches I’d have to think twice to want to suffer through that. As is I find it easier to ignore them. Even if they do stuff I find interesting (like the new Ork kill team) I just can’t get myself excited enough to want to follow their rules for buying.

[grantinvanman 2469xp 0]

But they’re so … thexy!

[limburger 21906xp 2]

sure … and then I look at the cost and the effort required to get them and the sexyness wears off faster than a picture of Trump in drag. 😉

[grantinvanman 2469xp 1]

@limburger 🤣

 

[limburger 21906xp 1]

@grantinvanman you should have looked at that picture while you were trying to browse the GW webshop.

I’ll guarantee that you wouldn’t have purchased a thing 😀

[wolfie65Participant 1250xp 2]

I remember a time when you could call the Mail Order Trolls – or even send them a letter, you know, handwritten on actual paper with a stamp on the envelope and all that – and buy archive minis from 20 years ago….still available by request…..

And then there were catalogs, nice an’ purty, with lots of pictures that you could look at any time you please, no need to turn on a puter, down-up-cross-or backload anything, no updates needed, never crashed, printed on real paper that you could really hold in your real hands and order from. With a form printed in the catalog which you cut out with real scissors and mailed in a real envelope – see above.

Alternatively, you could really walk into a real store – in real life – and just buy many of the minis now only found in cyberspace.

Everyday life was much better before computers.

[grantinvanman 2469xp 0]

[limburger 21906xp 1]

Remember when spacemarines only had three variants (Terminators, Spacemarines and Scouts).
Now there’s a dozen variants that have different names and different armor depending on the phase of the moon or something.

Life was much better before the shareholders at GW got greedy and they still had the illusion they were creating games.

OTOH … the eternally expanding list of miniatures for their games was never healthy.

 

[grantinvanman 2469xp 0]

Around here 40k is huge. The local May tournament has 72 spots, sells out MONTHS in advance. As a result there is always someone to game with.

Historicals are just not happening. Other games far smaller.

I’ve met people I like. That’s step one. The game is fun if you like the people playing it with you. I don’t care if it costs more than other games, that I will never get to play, because I definitely have some of those…

 

People can bag on GW all they want, but you can go anywhere in the world, and find someone to play with. There’s a value in that, I think.

[limburger 21906xp 0]

@grantinvanman with the right kind of people I’m sure it can be fun.

I just find the eternal fomo they do exhausting. There’s also something unwieldy and needlessly complex about their rules.
Maybe it helps to play it in real life instead of reading their books, but it just doesn’t click like other games do.

And it always saddens me that a lot of the fun from the early glory days of GW has been lost.
Orks used to be hilarious. Now they’re just big brutes. I loved it when the greenskins were as likely to shoot each other as the enemy (at least in WFB there was the animosity rule, not sure if 40k ever had it). And their factions like the Blood Axes …

Chaos too … it’s space marines with more skulls now.
If you can get your hands on the original ‘Realms of chaos’ books I’d suggest you do. Chaos was pure chaos.
Of course some of the stuff was a bit too unwieldy and stupid (your champion turning into a chaos spawn … ), but there were gems hidden in there that could have become something truly spectacular if GW had wanted to.

I preferred it when Slaanesh wasn’t the child friendly versions it has become now. Chaos units really ought to make you go *squick*

Nurgle somehow still manages that, but everyone else is too sane, safe and clean.

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