It’s not cheap, like really not cheap, but at least no one is forcing me to buy it so I won’t. But if you do, good for you.

What a shock the doom and gloom squad are out again. Unable to be critical of the Horus Hersey which by the way is 144 pounds on the ontabletop store and it an amazing deal for what it in the box. You still have to find something to moan about which is the price of primarchs.

I dont understand why you cannot just enjoy your aspect of the hobby without trying to insult the vast majority of ontabletops customers by calling them cultists because of how they choose to spend money.

There isn’t even a need for a productive conversation.  GW charge an arm and a leg for their Miniatures and you need quite a few of them to play their games.  If the price isn’t for you, don’t buy.  You don’t have to like it but there’s nothing anyone here can do about it no matter how much we discuss it – GW can charge whatever they like and people either will or won’t pay it.  It’s such a pedestrian topic, you don’t have a right to have things sold to you at a price you can afford, certainly not luxury goods such as Miniatures.  GW can charge whatever they like and people either will or won’t pay it and when enough people decide they won’t pay, GW will have to change tack.  But that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen any time soon.

If paying the (frankly insane) prices GW charge isn’t something you are prepared or able to do might I suggest just finding a game that you do like and buying those Miniatures instead and let everyone else enjoy what they enjoy, even if it’s games workshop.

The tactics GW uses are at the very least morally and ethically questionable, but unfortunately they are also practices that give companies (short term) profit …

Let’s not kid ourselves here. The purpose of any ‘starter set’ by any company is to get their hooks into your wallet and get you to spend more by buying all the bits they’re selling.

@onlyonepinman finding an alternative game or an alternative source for models is easier said than done.
GW is the 5000 pound gorilla in the room and it is so successful because it is very good at selling the idea that only ‘official’ products are to be used with their games.

It takes a serious commitment not to follow the herd, which is something most people just don’t have the time and energy for (been there, done that, got the t-shirt). And that’s before you consider that the presentation and userfriendlyness of the packaging for most alternatives present barriers that look like Mount Everest.

Convenience is worth a lot to people at the gateway into our hobby and it’s about time the rest of the industry learned to appreciate that too.

I don’t understand the purpose of the original post. Is it just to see if there are like minds out there that want to bitch about the prices, etc of GW? If those that purchase GW products are part of a cult then so are those that are bitching about GW.

I’ve looked at prices of large resin models other than GW and honestly they aren’t that much out of line. Maybe 20% more. The same with GW plastic. Yes it’s more expensive but not wildly out of line. I’ll also not the only way you will be paying the sticker price is if you purchase from either GW directly or one of their stores.

Limburger I dont know what point you are trying to make here. For example I dont play golf, I dont know much about it. I assume local to me there are golf courses and golf shops. I am sure there are dominating companies that make golf products. But the fact I dont know about golf or small companies that sell golf products is nobody elses fault apart from me. If I woke up one day interested in the golf I expect I would google it and start doing research on it and find the OTT version for golf.

It is the same with Hobby products if someone wants something other than GW products it is on them to find it. The fact a person does not know about say flames of war is not GW fault.

This might shock you but most people dont just play one game system. I am recently painting up star wars legion and I have been showing people I talk to AOS about some of those images. I posted links to Bad Squiddo to show them models this week. We talk about the hobby from RPG, to star wars, to new model companies. This sterotype you seem to think exists is not a reality. People that play GW products are fully aware other games system exist. For some people like me it is just another games system we collect, for some people those choose only to play AOS. How is that any different for someone who only choose to play Bolt Action or Moonstone ?

@zeker1966 It’s hard to do a comparison of ForgeWorld resin Miniatures really.  Games Workshop have an inconsistent pricing structure based on how many of something they think they will sell rather than what the item may appear to be worth as an individual unit.  However, their plastics are WAY more expensive than equivalent miniatures from other suppliers.

GW charge £30 for 10 Cadian Shock Troops.  Mantic charge £22.50 for 20 GCPS troops.  Wargames Atlantic charge £25 for 24 sci-fi soldiers.

GW are not just a bit more expensive than other suppliers of similar products, they’re a lot more expensive.  That shouldn’t really been seen as a controversial statement, it’s blindingly obvious that that’s the case.