It’s getting to the stage now (especially with their “boxed games” (or what used to be specialist games)), where is a gamble if you take the plunge into one of these GW systems that you’ll be able to obtain expansions/minis when they come out (nevermind 6 month down the road).

Basically you have to be buying the game day 1 and be logged on at 10am on a Saturday for a pre-order every single time GW do a release if you suffer from that “collector gene”.

GW don’t care about customer satisfaction, if they produce items short of demand that’s fine (other than missed opportunity for further profits). Its seems what they are scared stiff off is having stuff left on the warehouse shelves the day after release (as it seems they don’t like to hold much stock when it comes to non 40K/AoS “line items”, and even then they still don’t produce enough stock for things like the cards/dice and rulebooks for the 40K/AoS games).

So get used to it, I doubt GW are going to change. If you want the ability to buy as many as you want and WHEN you want, then you’ll have to go look elsewhere than GW products (perhaps Historicals might be tangent to go on?).

The independant retailer also suffers from this short stock, as I know many have been hit with “merchant card fees” to repay pre-orders (as they don’t know how many they are getting until it arrives on the doorstep half the time).

Perhaps it would be an idea for the hobby news sites to just stop covering GW products until GW are weaned away from this FOMO/Limited/”We underestimated demand for the past 5 years” shenanigans until GW change their ways. I doubt this would ever happen (as GW news triggers so many views), but GW are “top dog” in this hobby and they can (and do) behave exactly how they feel like doing (and we still throw money at them) 🙁