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Reply To: Overpriced GW

June 15, 2022 at 4:55 pm #1747955

limburger

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@poosh ‘cept GW also operates at a scale/volume that no other company can compete with, which means that they can hide those additional costs across a bigger product range too …

The bigger problem is that for the kind of fictional settings that GW produces there are no real equivalents out there.
Even if you use alternative miniatures you still have to buy their rules and army lists.

There is no escaping GW if you want to play 40k/AoS, unless you also quit playing those games … and there’s the problem, because like Apple, Google and MS cutting that dependency is hard and it’s not something one does as easily because the convenience offered by GW easily outweighs the negatives for a lot of people even if they are aware of the alternatives.

OTOH … if I was in the market for a humanoid in powered armour or a human soldier with a futuristic weapon then the range of options is improved by the fact that I can pick an costly model (with crystal clear instructions) or an average model (without such features).