About the price rises : in the same time, GW is playing fair and unfair.
I =
have bought WHFB 5th ed., because I wanted to begin a FB army a long time
a=
go, and I thought that the (sublime) Bretonnians in the basic set were a
fa=
ir reason to sell WHFB a lil more expensive (the overall quality is better)=
.
BUT ... what is 100 % UNfair, is that they rise the price of **all** box=
ed
sets, to meet the price level of WHFB.That is unfair because nothing has=
changed in the old boxes, and they make it arbitrarily more expensive.
Th=
is is also stupid (IM ever so HO), because they discourage people to buy
th=
e 'previous generation' boxed sets.
What they should do, is sell different=
versions of the same game in parallel
: for example : Titan Legions with E=
ldar and Imp. Guard minis, TL with Ork
and Chaos minis, etc ...The rulebook=
s would remain the same, but we could
choose which box to buy and **use** t=
he minis in the box.As I play Eldar
(and I begin Chaos), there is nothing i=
n the box I can use.And to pay for a
rulebook (only thing I can use) the sa=
me price I would pay for a 5 th ed.
WHFB, is lil too much.
Marc.
At 11=
:57 24/01/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Microsoft Mail v3.0 (MAPI 1.0 Transport) IP=
M.Microsoft Mail.Note
>From: Philip Nixon
>To: smtp:space-marine_at_...=
>Subject: The spirit of the game
>Date: 1997-01-24 11:57
>Priority: 5
>Me=
ssage ID: 18043A36D575D011AB3A0020AF71E433
>Conversation ID: The spirit of =
the game
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------=
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>
>Having read Jervis statement on the mailing list with re=
gard to the great
>Epic 40k debate , I would just like to ask this :
>Di=
d anyone feel that he really side-stepped the point ?
>The bulk of his repl=
y seemed to concentrate more on "the spirit of the
>game" rather than ad=
dressing the complaints from the players that their
>much loved Epic is =
being threatened.
>Let me expand on this .
>Any previous revamps since the =
plastic figures have not caused such
>debate , and it all lies in the ne=
w stand layout . "Your old stands will
>be fully compatible" , yet will =
this new long stand not increase the
>amount of ground covered by units =
, spreading them out and making them
>less vulnerable to barrages . An u=
nfair advantage when playing someone
>with old-style stands.
>I was at m=
y local Games Workshop store on games night and looked around .
>Nearly =
all the players there were aged 10 - 15 . Now us older hands with
>jobs =
might be ok , but what about these kids who have put up with
>creeping p=
rice rises in blister packs and gaming systems ? I presume of
>course th=
at the new Epic 40k will be bumped up to the now standard �50 .
>Why ?=
Are these people not Games Workshop's market and therefore their
>futur=
e prosperity ? Are these price rises necessary , and are the MD's at
>GW=
keeping with the "spirit of the game" ?
>Please feel free to reply and agr=
ee or disagree with this . Also if
>anyone has any Chaos stuff they want=
shot of ....
>
>Regards
>PhilATTACHMENT MANIFEST 1.0
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Marc Feuerstei=
n
http://student.vub.ac.be/~tw44645/
mailto:tw44645_at_...
La pl=
upart des hommes n'ont que ce qu'ils m�ritent...les autres sont
c�libat=
aires.
Received on Fri Jan 24 1997 - 15:56:23 UTC