Games Workshop
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Games Workshop used to be good. See Beakie, Rogue Trader and Talisman.
They started out making shit that you could use in other publishers games, and printing American RPGs up in jolly olde Angleterre. Soon they made a wargame and a few board games and people began to take them seriously as something other than a magazine publisher.
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It is a well kept secret that the Board of Directors of GW are in the same situation as the God-Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40,000. Their defiled corpse-bodies lay dormant upon their Publishing Thrones, maintaining only the smallest semblance of life due to the constant influx of money. It is unknown what would happen if the Board of Directors were allowed to truly die. Some say Games Workshop would collapse in on itself, ceasing the production of all that is good and expensive. Perhaps Games Workshop would be free from the necrotic collar of the Directors' irresistible will, and the company would be free to explore new areas, such as advancing the story of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, or reviving older "specialist" games like Space Hulk and Blood Bowl.
The Fall of Warhammer
It's finally fucking happened. As of May 11th, 2011, Games-Workshop's new terms of use restricts sales of all of their products to the European Union, although there are a couple of countries (such as Norway and Switzerland) that are geographically within Europe but not in the EU that can still be sold to. Obviously, this means that GW's english-speaking customers outside the EU - Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the US, as well as customers in other countries who are fans of their products can no longer obtain them through FLGS or online wholesalers.
Oh, and they spiked the prices another 10-15%.
Because Games-Workshop fucking hates you.
to do
add moar shit
LOWER THEIR FUCKING PRICES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop trying to monopolise things like terrain and game boards. It was a lot more fun and interesting when GW encouraged people to make their own stuff from scratch, but now they seem to think everyone has to have a Citadel Realm of Battle board and use only the plastic terrain kits that are sold at GW. This pisses off all us proper gamers who like to make things that look unique and orginal. Also, they really should stop selling those stupidly overpriced movement trays for warhammer, theyre cheaper and easier to make using sheets of plasticard and trimmed down sprues!
UPDATE OLDER ARMIES LIKE NECRONS AND SISTERS OF BATTLE INSTEAD OF JUST CONSTANTLY UPDATING ALL THE SPACE MARINES FOR CHRISSAKE- YOU'D HAVE MORE PEOPLE BUYING MORE ARMIES MAKING YOU MORE WEALTHY. I MEAN GODDAMN, HOW MANY FLAVORS OF SMURFS CAN PEOPLE POSSIBLY WANT? A WHOLE FUCKTON LAST TIME I CHECKED THE SALES FIGURES.
Cut the production costs and therefore prices of their products. This is a good business decision as it would increase volume while retaining profit margins. At the likely expense of model quality, anyway.
MOAR PLASTIC MODELS!!!!
KICK MATT WARD IN THE BALLS AND KICK HIM HARD
In cunclusion, FUCK YOU GAMES WORKSHOP!!!