Atomic Mass Games looses it's mind over terrain piece

[onlyonepinman 18064xp 0]

If you buy the Revell kit, you don’t have to have a crashed X-wing either!  You could make a landing pad, use it as an objective.

[sundancer 43003xp 0]

I guess one of the biggest problem with a big IP is: it’s a big IP and who ever holds the IP collects a premium to rent out the IP. So companies need to charge more then they would with a similar product that’s without the IP attached to it.

With the 40th anniversary for Return of the Jedi coming up next year I guess there will be many more products coming out at a higher price. Ewoks had been announced (potentially as a part of an Endor Battleforce?) and some other named characters are still missing.

[onlyonepinman 18064xp 1]

The tradeoff you make when you buy an IP is that the name itself increases your sales so you make your profit through sales volume.  If you pay out money for popular IP rights and then pass that licensing cost on to the customer, you’re on a hiding to nothing, you have to absorb that cost but leverage the IP to increase sales.

 

Games Workshop have done a fine job with Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game and it remains, even now, a reasonably priced wargame

[dawfyddParticipant 11937xp 2]

I started getting leary about FFG/AMG the release of Armada. Some of those ship prices are utterly insane. And it’s a shame as all three games have just gotten buried under increasingly odd rules choices and prices that make you go “Oh, I’m sorry, you were being serious?”. I think I’ll stick to what minis I already have, print out as many Mandos as I want and find an alternate ruleset ot use them in.

[sundancer 43003xp 0]

I think the Super Stardestroyer was the first mayor “WTF” moment for me. Thought that was really more a “collectible for the hardcore”. It’s a shame. :S

[dawfyddParticipant 11937xp 0]

I could almost accept the SSD as it is quite massive, but it was the Rebel Starhawk being best part of £80 that made me have a funny turn. And this was after being left looking askance at some of the ship pricing that seemed mad even compared to other ships in the range (the Rebels light Mon Cal torpedo destroyer comes to mind as one example)

[sundancer 43003xp 0]

yikes. I totally missed that. Maybe mainly because I never played Armada since it was on the more pricey side to begin with…

[onlyonepinman 18064xp 1]

So what we really seem to be saying is, AMG’s pricing structure has been all over the map pretty much from the outset?  I mean GeeDubs might be expensive, but they’re consistent* to the point of predictably when it comes to pricing.

 

* Scant consolation, I know

[jodain 12433xp 0]

@sundancer couldn’t agree more.  I avoided the escape pod for the same reason, and nearly didn’t purchase the Rebel Party Bus because of the initial price.

There is certainly no structure to the pricing – I was looking at the Echo Base Defenders box for just over £100, which comes with 4 units of rebel veterans (the same shop had a unit of those at £30).  I doubt I’d ever field 4 units of veterans though so I didn’t buy into what was a really good saving.  If they can manage to sell the Echo Base Defenders for £100ish then why are they charging that much for a crashed X-Wing.

Perhaps AMG should focus on the units for the game and let others deal with the terrian – BTW some great bits from Blotz in MDF for Star Wars.

[sundancer 43003xp 0]

And the weird part is: the Battleforce boxes are really good value for money compared to buying units separately…  I guess that’s why it annoys me so much when they to one off’s this expensive.

[kiranamida 5791xp 0]

Sad to see if it proves to be a trend. SW:L has always been one of maybe-next systems if I ever get tidied up building and painting what I have.

Sounds like it might be another get what’s good and play rules agnostic situation as 40K has started to trend for me now that I’ve been playing for about a year.

[sundancer 43003xp 0]

Or just wait for someone flipping their collection and get ’em cheap? 😉

 

[dawfyddParticipant 11937xp 1]

That was kind of what I did for my X-Wing collection – I’d stopped collecting a few waves into 1st Ed as I couldn’t keep up but when they switched to 2nd Ed Pfibert had a massive discounted clearance on all the French-language ships. Scored several hundred quids worth of ships for not very much at all.

[fourtytwoParticipant 12847xp 0]

For three of those 4 piece plastic terrain kits, I get a 1/72th scale Millennium Falcon with hundreds of pieces, amazing kit engineering, 100% movie accurate down to the tiniest detail, crisp and exceptionally well-produced, including a lighting set…

I do not see that many Legion players who are actually willing to pay such prices as compared to the GW-sphere, yet, so this might not work out the way the sales-people might imagine – I hope. But things like that are bound to happen when the major player in our hobby is predatory beyond the pale with customers who have been conditioned into mindless consumer submission by such practices: Other companies start to copy these methods.

 

[onlyonepinman 18064xp 1]

Atomic Mass Games head of retail working out the prices of the next wave of releases

 

 

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