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Reply To: Overpriced GW

June 21, 2022 at 5:23 pm #1749607

limburger

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@onlyonepinman no amount of ‘like for like’ is going to convince the average gamer to buy non GW products to play a GW game.

The culture and scene surrrounding those products simply won’t allow it, except for small groups of friends (at which point anything goes).

It’s like trying to convince an Apple fan that they should buy a Microsoft product because it is ‘cheaper’
Or like telling a Windows user that Linux can do anything Windows does at a fraction of the cost.

It never worked and it never will work, unless said user is frustrated enough to want to look at alternatives and can ignore the ‘sunk cost’. It’s why Linux is still used by geeks and the average consumer still doesn’t give a fuck that he’s sending all his private data to the book of faesces because he gets to be with the in-crowd.

If you are at a level of interest in games that you can accept the like for like comparions you are making then you are already a bit of a geek within the hobby.

Most people just don’t want to deal with the added ballast of finding alternatives, unless said alternative is at the same shop on the same shelve. And even then they simply may love the GW style enough to not worry about the cost.

I’d love to see a proper newbie react to Firefight vs 40k in a way that prevents the branding of those products from changing his opinion. A blind A/B test if you will… (I suspect they will prefer the Mantic rules, but may like the GW models more …)