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Originally Posted by Heroka Vendile  actually, its not the catalogue - its the Bitz & Collectors Catalogue, which is very poor. Clever and well done in a business sense, but rubbish for the hobbyist.
Everything that's in it was already available and more than 10x what is in it has been completly cut and will never be available again. Yes, more packs of old bitz and brand new packs will be made available over the coming years, but this re-gigging and cutting down of the bitz ordering service is a massive blow and won't help GW much apart from not having to have such big warehouses for archive models.
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also, the Specialist Games bitz are completely gone and will not return. |
YEt again i'd like to know how you know for sure the specialist games range is gone forever.. And whilst that does suck (I was considering Inquisitor or BFG).. GW is a buisness, and when profits drop, you cut off the lowest earners that you can. That being, Specialist Gaming.
Plus, I don't remember them ever selling GK psycannons 5x at a time at a bundled price discount, nor a Deathwatch Veteran upgrade KIT rather than buying it all separate (again, at a discount), or innumerable other things.
While the content in and of itself is the same old hat and dance bits wise, the packaging is different, and the price is also cheaper. So you've no grounds/rights to call is poor anything, nor do I remember a convention of hobbyists giving you the right to speak for them.
Maybe for specialists gamers like yourself it is, but for those who do more converting in just 40k, it has potential. Granted, it's GW, so preliminary excitement about anything common sense/innovative should be cautious, lol!
After all, who said, or where does it say, that these bits will be limited to old school ones? They might very well start coming out with packs of 4x heavy bolter servitors or the bits for 4x heavy bolter devs, etc.. That's where I see GW going with this.
Their annual shareholders meeting was not a happy one. They physically recognized the fact online bits stores and ebay were kicking their asses, and that they had to find a way to compete somehow and keep the lions share of the gamers spending within the company.
This to me, would signal the very beginning of just such one move.