Warhammer Visions To Be ‘Reborn’ In New Format
March 30, 2015 by dracs
Warhammer: Visions, Games Workshop's monthly publication focusing upon their wide range of miniatures, is facing some changes as a letter to subscribers has emerged promising it will be "reborn in a stunning new format."
As you can see in the letter, this new format promises to be twice as big as the current Warhammer: Visions publications, building upon its existing content and adding some new features.
So far, there hasn't been any word as to what this will add to the magazine. In the past Warhammer: Visions has been primarily focused upon displaying Games Workshop miniatures as a finished product and showcasing some of their best paint work, so I am hoping that content focused more on the creative process could also appear in its pages.
There can sometimes be a lot of eye rolling when a publication announces changes, but personally I think this could be a very positive move for Warhammer: Visions. All publications evolve (as anyone who remembers Beasts of War five years ago can assure you) and by trying a new format they are opening the magazine up for new content and approaches.
It will be interesting to see where they go with this when the new format appears.
What do you hope to see in the new format of Warhammer: Visions?
"This new format promises to be twice as big as the current Warhammer: Visions."
great idea, take a magazine nobody wanted to buy because it was too expensive and just full of pictures,
… and then make it twice as big and more expensive … (O ,o) ????
… fantastic idea there, must have taken months of spit balling ideas to come up with that winner 😛 ha ha ha
Lol! I want my old white dwarf back, and I want Paul “fat bloke” Sawyer back in charge of the mag. The fat bloke era was some of the best!
Agreed!
Absoflockinglutely! Never purchased the new magazines and often flick through old WD issues. Current GW magazine folks could learn a thing or two buy looking back at what was once a glorious magazine for the hobby and not just photos of models.
Bought the first one out of curiosity alone and never really understood the appeal (for the eye watering price). Blanchitsu is awesome but there just didn’t seem to be much content for me for the price. If I want to see pics of lovely painted minis I just go online nowadays. Will be very interesting to see if they go back to including any of the old-school WD elements and I’ll probably buy at least one.
haha epic fail
“I only read white dwarf for the articles.”
and then they took away the articles and made the photoshopped images even more porny than before. argh.
the joke-price they have for the current issue is getting boosted? lordy ..
one word: Blanchitsu
take my money!!
Having subscribed to White Dwarf for years under the previous format I immediately cancelled when they split it in two and never bought a copy of either since.
Soon after that I gave up buying GW models too… I wonder if somehow the two events were linked?
If they add modelling and painting tutorials I might get one to try. Current content is just meh…
this is exactly what I was hoping they would do originally, make it full of painting tutorials,
… but who wants to pay 7 quid for 250 pages of photographs (O ,o) ???
… completely mental idea 😛
It’s a monthly coffee table book, in it’s current format
Don’t play warhammer nor buying any whfb or 40k sets but if the magazine would contain painting tutorials and terrain building I might consider byuing it. And a short story or two doesn’t hurt 🙂
In my view they need to make it a top quality hobby magazine or bury it. They have lost their way for so long with their magazines that they need to make a decision to do something worthwhile or stop flogging the dead horse.
Nothing has really changed. It’s just bigger and more expensive than before. Maybe to some people it’s ok to only have nothing but inspirational pictures but you can see those in internet for free from actually awesome painters.
Bought the first issue and haven’t bought another since, total waste of money.
Also stopped buying the weekly White Dwarf a while ago as that became more effort than it was worth (travel into town, pay for parking etc just to spend £2.40 on a magazine)
Go back to a proper monthly magazine that covers everything and make it available to newsagents again, or don’t bother at all.
Forgot to add
A rough translation of GW’s message:
“We have now finally realised 15 issues later that Visions is actually crap hence why sales are so poor, but we’ll wash over that fact and try and put a positive spin on how we’re adding extra content whilst charging you more!”
They put alot of fate in pictures of their miniatures, bit too much
I wonder if ‘twice the size’ might just refer to a shift to a more standard ‘A4’ page size?
Yup, that’s my bet too.
Am I missing something? 3 people have mentioned raising the price, yet the letter in the article states the price isn’t increasing.
Yes, it’s a waste of money, and yes, GW need to sort it out (not bought a WD in years, and definitely wouldn’t after they split it), but at least let them actually increase the price (or announce an increase) before you slag them off for it.
This is Beasts of War, you don’t need actual facts to slag off GW round here. You can make up what you like 🙂
only the price of the original subscription stays the same,
for people who pre ordered their issues in bulk for a year
no doubt the regular retail price will increase if the magazine jumps from 250 pages to 500
That’s not what it says. I’m not saying the price won’t go up at some point, but the letter says the price will stay the same. It doesn’t say it stays the same for existing subscribers, it just says it stays the same.
There’s a whole new level of GW bashing going on today on BoW. Make something up, then complain about the thing you’ve just invented.
… it says ” as a subscriber you’ll be among the first to experience it, and don’t worry the price remains the same ” … so it means the subscription they have already paid for stays the same, it’s clear to anyone who has had a white dwarf subscription before during a price increase that’s what they mean, they always send out the same kind of letter saying that before a price increase, and no … this is not GW bashing … I’m just saying the magazine became shite after they changed it 😛 if I was a GW basher… Read more »
You may well be right, but the fact remains that this ‘price increase’ for non-subscribers is speculation.
Maybe they could add some half decent battle reports like the old days and I’m sure they could steal some good story stories from black library.
Right now Visions is utterly terrible. I’ve bought issues in the past just because one of my favourite people from the Inq28 community has been featured in Blanchitsu, but the whole magazine takes just a few minutes to flick through. The problem is that there is nothing to read. I really don’t want to look at endless pictures of GW’s studio armies. Page after page of the same few badly painted minis shot from different angles holds no interest for me at all. Golden Demon entries are more interesting and Blanchitsu is the highlight, but again, nothing to read. I’d… Read more »
Can’t agree with you more. For some reason I also can’t stand the text in 3 different languages. It always looks like there is more to read and then you realise it’s just two sentences. I understand why they do it for print reasons but I wish the e-version would get rid of them.
The message said says the price is staying the same. Still not interested unless it has useful information in it.
Bring back ‘Eavy Metal Masterclass. While I do enjoy seeing photos of awesome minis, I’d much rather some guides and advice on techniques. The painting guides at the back simply ape what’s already been shown in White Dwarf and don’t provide a finish anywhere close to any of the minis I’ve been staring at on every other page in the mag. And some sections on terrain building would be greatly appreciated. I know they want to sell their own kits (which I have bought and genuinely do like) but the board-building advice and tutorials we used to get in older… Read more »
Hard to see what the point of this change is – and presumably the price will go up for non-subscribers (if there are any of them left)… I still get it because I never cancelled my WD sub and it works out at about £3 a month, so not a lot really. But I still find it an incredibly disappointing ‘read’, even when there’s good stuff in it. The sad thing is that I think there still would be a market for White Dwarf ‘done right’. A normally sized and priced magazine, that had nice photos, articles by real hobbiests… Read more »
Jan 2015 – “This channel (trade) showed growth in North America, Australia and the UK, offset by larger declines in non-strategic accounts and magazine sales.” March 2015 – “Thank you for your part in Warhammer: Visions’ ongoing success” Did GW just redefine “success”? At least it is actually ongoing. I think they were right to make WD weekly and switch to a weekly release model, probably right to pull it from newsstand distribution, but badly misunderstood what people were buying the monthly magazine for. The newsstand magazine is as close as GW get to doing any external advertising, and WV… Read more »
Well I had subscribed to WD on and off for @ 27 years (sh*t that makes me feel old!) and when they split the mag i thought ‘what the hell give it a go’, but soon realized that the weekly one was just a glorified sales catalogue and visions was only good for improving my gaming in different languages, absolutely the worst decision they could have made. This just makes me think they are just trying to dress up a pig. IT’S STILL A PIG! Anyway the best thing to come from this was that I cancelled my sub to… Read more »
To be totally blunt, everything I want from white dwarf I get from Beasts of war nowadays : Hobbylab, great painting videos, fun discussions, tactical/strategy articles, news on all sorts of great miniatures and writers and presenters with actual personality.
I still love the original vision for both 40k and Warhammer FB, the background is beautifully dark tinged with hope. The magazine of the same name represents none of this. Its just another catalogue (again). Hampered by corporate dictat and without even an indication of market research it was doomed to failure from the start. In fact I’m amazed that GW survives paying so little attention to its market – but then such is the dedication of its fans (including me sadly) it survives through their will alone, or so it seems – because GW management demonstrates with each decision… Read more »
Those who got Visions through subscriptions, perhaps you should look at the back page of it.
It shows the new Visions format alongside the current format. It appears to be A4, just as thick as the current issue AND STILL THE SAME PRICE!!! Just as the letter to subscribers says