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Mr Dreadful (7/30/2006)
Apparently GW has reported a 73% drop in profits. The reason for this loss? The fact that they are continuing to flog the now dead horse that is the Lord of the Rings range... they genuinely believed that after the films had finished there'd be enough interest to sustain LotR as a core range but figures from independant stockists indicate that they are now only selling 10% of the amount they were selling when the films were out.
How did that take them by surprise? :-? N E fule could tell you that a LOTR purist wouldn't be interested in much except the set piece battles and equally with (the effects of adverts on attention span due to) TV today they're lucky kids made it to the shops.
Ahh... hobbits come and go, but a terminator is forever...
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coffmeister (7/31/2006)
How did that take them by surprise?Because GW is managed by a combination of hobbyists with no business sense and businessmen who don't give a stuff about the hobby.
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| Just found out GW are releasing a new Version of Warhammer.. Shock horror! GW re-releasing a prefectly good game. (no doubt with re-releases of everything else within the system too) they must be doing badly..
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Mr Dreadful (7/31/2006)
coffmeister (7/31/2006)
How did that take them by surprise?Because GW is managed by a combination of hobbyists with no business sense and businessmen who don't give a stuff about the hobby. How very very true. I went for an interview at GW last year (I needed the money, I'm not proud of what I did) Basically, the interviewer wanted employees who are sooooooo unbelievably into the game that they have no life to speak of. Even the store manager (the guy who interviewed me) was so passionate about it all that I found it frightening. He recounted how he became all misty eyed when he finally earned the 'honour' of being allowed to wear the right colour of GW T-shirt (black I think, but that's probably changed!) Sure, its good to have people who like what they sell, but they're so into it that they're blind to its flaws, of which there are many. which is probably why they're suffering.
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James_Adamson (8/3/2006)
Just found out GW are releasing a new Version of Warhammer..
Shock horror! GW re-releasing a prefectly good game. (no doubt with re-releases of everything else within the system too)
they must be doing badly..
Hm, and here was me thinking that it was standard practice for a business to release and update things so that they can, you know, sell them, for money.
Now, i've got to admit that I've been out of the hobby for almost a year now, but from what i've seen of the new edition (which isnt that much, given that i've not been able to get into the studio for over a year now) is that the majority of things are tweeks and including errata as main part of rules.
After almost three years answer rules questions professionaly for GW i can tell you, they needed to do this for any new player to actualy stand a reasonable chance to have all the rules in one place. So what if they have taken this oppertunity to try and improve the rules. I'd rather see that than no evolution of the game, which is what a lot of the people who complain about their releases seem to hold on to "I remember when..."
Times are a changing and the games, and the company must change with them if they plan on continuing to be the dominant force in the miniature wargaming marketplace.
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I've known a few Games Workshop's employees, at the shop level.
All of them were nuts.
I remember one wouldn't play with house rules, ever. He considered them a "perversion", especially when we used to disregard Army List requirements, and play straight 'points' games. (ie you just take the required number of points, if you want to field a Space Marine army composed entirely of Dreadnoughts, go for it. Actually an interesting way of playing, because you can play armies against type, for instance, a compact, hard-hitting Ork army, or a reasonably large, weak Space Marine army (lots of Scouts))
Oh, and he would check your models, so if your Space Marine commander doesn't have a pistol holster on the model, then you can't give him a needle pistol.
This is in knockabout games. At home.
You know, where the games get better the more interesting rules you add.
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I used to work for GW. In fact it was the first job doing weekend work whilst studying. Yes, the company didn’t exactly treat us well. But we were just out of school and wet behind the ears and frankly – I’ve been treated as badly in other retail high street jobs.
There will always be people who will want to work for them though. Imagine if you will the fanatical GW fan. All he does all day is paint miniatures and talk about armies. Now offering him money to do that and he’ll bite your arm off – even for minimum wage. Add to that various perks for staff buying miniatures and suchlike and it’s a perfect job for these people.
I was fired by the by. They used to give the staff a box of Bugmans Ale at Christmas. Lumpy homebrewed Ale. Nowhere on the box did it say you couldn’t drink a good quantity of it after you shut the shop on Friday and get woken up by the manager with the worst hangover of your life on Saturday morning. Despite Polystyrene hills making logical pillows – he was not happy.
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Mikey (8/4/2006)
They used to give the staff a box of Bugmans Ale at Christmas. Lumpy homebrewed Ale.
That stuff was fecking evil. You had to drink it in three days or the plastic bag it came in exploded.
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