Jake Thornton just posted a great article on his blog, Quirkworthy, about the latest price rise announcement from Games Workshop.
Price rises, or, more specifically, GW’s annual price rise is bubbling on the forums. There was a link, but it’s been altered so that it doesn’t work. However, the basic scuttlebutt is that GW supposedly mentioned their price rise in 2 lines of a deeply embedded page, several links down their site. Copies of what purport to be the US trader’s new retail price list are kicking about with some scary % increases. Supposedly the non-US retailers have heard nothing of this. Whether it is real or nonsense is anyone’s guess.
Actually, I don’t think I care. [more here]
I passively follow the goings-on of GW through their newsletter (which I barely glance at) and the unavoidable tidbits picked up from forums and various news sites on the Net. I don’t hold a grudge against them, and I certainly don’t go out of my way to criticize them. I just have no interest in their core products and universe(s) (except, at one time, their LotR models, but that’s another story).
The only time I ever feel an urge to discuss GW is at times like this when they announce price rises on the horizon, and the grumbling ensues. I’ve actually tried, on more than one occasion, to write an article on this phenomenon, but in the end always opted to devote my energy to other projects. Fortunately, thanks to Jake, I’ll never have to, as he’s captured my opinion in his article to a T.
