Specialist Games

[Ithoriel]

Unbelievable how quick an, in itself interesting and worthwhile, thread derailed again in pronographic insinuations and useless nonsense!  

Unsubstantiated rumours about products I'm no longer interested in, being produced by a company I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw it ... into the teeth of a hurricane .... with one hand tied behind my back ... derail away

Don't GW have a big release for something they actually produce scheduled around now?

No such thing as bad publicity? Or am I being unduly cynical?

[Leman]

Well I for one would be interested if Warmaster Empire figures reappeared.

[Ithoriel]

There are so many cheaper options these days that I'm not sure I'd care. One or two Araby units maybe but that's about it.

I'm amazed if they are releasing all of these games at once - it used to be there were two or three fully available at a time. Also, I understood they were planning to move to entirely plastic and resin - not sure where that leaves all of the metal models Specialist games did.

Time will tell but if it turns out to be true I'm currently expecting it won't involve systems I'm interested in and/ or prices will be more ludicrous than ever.

I'd love to be proved wrong! 

[Leman]

You never know, they might have had a consultant in from Aldi who's given them some tips on how not to price themselves out of the market, and the joys of diversification.

[Ace of Spades]

I never understood why they quit all these games their 'old fans' loved; all the moulds and models were there; it was just a question of keeping it alive. Nobody expected anything new or extraordinary; it was just a question of keeping it rolling along... Ah well; we'll see what happens.

Cheers,
Rob

[Fenton]

There are rumours that Forgeworld will be looking after them so God knows what the prices will be like if any of it is true

[Techno]

I doubt very much if the 'master moulds' still exist.
Cheers - Phil

[NeilCFord]

Any decision like this is going to have been driven by falling sales figures. I know from personal experience that independent retailers have been selling less. Whether that's because parents finally had enough of the rising prices or today's kids have finally moved on to something else, I'm not certain, but it was definitely happening.

Finding a way to attract older fans, those with their own disposable income makes sense, Whether they can pull it off is another thing.

- Neil.

[Leon]

If it's ForgeWorld looking after these then I wouldn't expect to see WM or Epic returning anytime soon.  The lower profits in smaller scales combined with added costs/hassle of producing everything in resin wouldn't add up for the moneymen in the boardroom.

[Orcs]

Had n't the warmaster stuff risen to £16 a unit just before its demise.


Oh no I should have not mentioned that Leon's Eyes have glazed over after he suddendly realised that if he converted Pendraken sales to GW prices he could afford that Ferrari.

[Ace of Spades]

Ah well, still got tons of Epic in the attic so nog shortages for the next century I guess. Fir Warmaster we have our suppliers now Also not a very smart move of GW; first let everybody find a new and much cheaper supplier for thier gamers needs and then try to get them back to the overpriced stuff... we'll see!

Cheers,
Rob

[FierceKitty]

What is "pronography"? Images of people lying on their tummies?

[Leman]

Someone's let the cat out of the bag again - switch your spellcheckers on please gents.

[Fenton]

Just tried my spell checker. It is working fine. It's still choosing the completely wrong words when it's meant to

[Ace of Spades]

Typing English on a Dutch computer (No, I don't mean it was made in the Netherlands, it's the settings I refer to!) means the spell checker doesn't always work.... In this message for example it underlines the words 'don't', 'mean', 'it's' etc. So even even if I could be bothered it wouldn't do much good... (oh, apparently 'good' is not spelled correctly either!).
So I just switched the pc to 'whatever' and that seems to work just fine! For me that is...

Cheers,
Rob (hey, the spell checker does accept my name!)