That is really bad and ridiculous, they did quite well with Dominion and said they will do the same for Kill Team, though I’m quite sure Kill Team will sell faster than Dominion. And now we got this shit again.

I got a mail from a shopt that I’m ordering quite often in which they asked for the interest in the Beast Snagga box and Kill Team.

EDIT:

Just saw that video from Chapter master Valrak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efmbUgRUG6w

it seems that retailers only get one box, if that is true the that is extremely stupid.

One copy ?
That’s … I mean … I can’t even find words to express but … damn.

It sucks that shops can’t stop selling GW products, because they’d losing out on a lot of sales.
However with tactics like that it’s as if GW wants them to quit selling their product.

— edit —

I’ve checked with my FLGS.
If they’ve got an answer I’ll let you know.

I wouldn’t mind it as much if they did a “G’Wullu store exclusive” if they were upfront with it. But this “Here comes the new shit… and it’s gone” is just beyond anything

got mail from my FLGS.
They will have limited supply, but they are in good standing with GW (due to the volume of sales they tend to have) and have been allowed to order ‘more’.
I was told to not wait too long after saturday 11:00 (the time they update their store).

So yeah … rumours confirmed (to the point that supply will be limited).

true … and I think that if anyone was surprised by this then they haven’t looked at GW’s history with this type of product.
We also should consider the simple fact that due to the Event (stay indoors!) and that thing in the Suez canal the global logistics have been f*cked up. So shipping to locations that was expensive before sure as hell is going to be stupendously expensive now.

And to be honest … it is a bit of a gamble, because not everyone into 40k is going to ‘need’ those new minis that come with the codex.
It’s not like this is an army that didn’t have any models at all.
True … most of the stuff the Orks have dates back to the previous century or thereabouts, but they still have their core troops and a ‘start collecting’ set.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we’d see the contents of this box in a new Ork ‘start collecting’ set as it is similar to the AoS version (orks on beasts, troops and a few heroes).

The communication from GW towards their shops and 3rd parties should have been better, but that has been an issue since forever and it doesn’t look like they will ever fix that.

We could tell people to stop buying GW products, but the fact is that people like what they make and the number of people playing their systems is big enough that you practically ‘need’ to buy stuff from them if you want to play a game.

A community that is biased towards a different system would suffer the same problems ..

// status update
GW is using the same queueing system that they had for the AoS boxed set.
It was to be expected …

GW has fully embraced FOMO and loves the ‘new phenomena’ of being 100% sold out. AoS 1st Ed bombed hard, several editions of 40K didn’t do great either and for a few years GW watched on as XWing sold out across the globe. Imaginbe the diference these to different statements sound, and which one gets said in the board room;

“We produced 10.000 units, sold 8,000 in week one. Everyone that wanted one got one and we’re confident the remaining 2,000 will sell over time. ”

“We produced 7,000 units, sold every unit at a premium price and still soldout! Customers were buying anything they could lay their hands on!”

@horus500 I can’t blame GW (or any other business) for trying … because from a business point of view it makes perfect sense.
Especially if the chance of anyone missing out quitting 40k/AoS is soo small it is worth it.

I think a community in a more fragile state wouldn’t survive such tactics.

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I ‘missed out’ on my chance to buy, but at the same time I am ok with not getting this at launch as the core components are going to be available at a later date anyway. The two boss figures are likely to remain exclusive.
And as for the data cards … the idea is cool, but they’ll be outdate when the next chapter improved updates stats and tweaks units (which will happen as the army has been given new features that wil wreck the current meta).