Warhammer+ Price & Details Revealed; Worth The Investment?
June 24, 2021 by brennon
Warhammer+ has now been revealed in full by the folks at Games Workshop. Launching on 25th August, Warhammer+ is going to be a repository for their Warhammer Animations as well as a new selection of in-house shows and more digital content.
Warhammer+ Reveal // Games Workshop
To start with, the price. As you can see above, you can either sign up to Warhammer+ for £4.99 a month or £49.99 for a full year. Included within that subscription you'll get access to everything you see above including one of the two exclusive miniatures.
Warhammer+ Reveal Trailer // Games Workshop
One of the core selling points of Warhammer+ was access to those new animations. Angels Of Death and Hammer & Bolter will be available from the beginning with a semi-regular release each week. Additional shows will be added into the mix as and when they become available and will follow a similar format, a weekly release with episodes coming in around the fifteen-minute mark. Not too bad.
Original Shows
As well as the Warhammer Animations, Warhammer+ will also offer a set of three (for now) shows that have been filmed and produced by Games Workshop. The first of these is Citadel Masterclass hosted by Louise Sugden. She will be teaching new and in-depth painting techniques.
Citadel Masterclass // Games Workshop
Next up, we have Battle Report. Patrick Price will be playing out Matched Play games of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age Of Sigmar plus diving into big narrative games too.
Battle Reports // Games Workshop
Both of these shows will be filmed in their fancy new studios which you can see previewed in the video above. I am very interested to see what the quality of these is like and how they present both their games and tutorials. Battle Reports are a hard thing to film as we very well know!
Finally, Wade Pryce will be helming the show that I'm most interested to watch. Loremasters will delve into the fluff and background of The Grimdark Future and The Mortal Realms.
Loremasters // Games Workshop
I think this could be fun to have on in the background whilst you're doing a bit of painting or hobbying. It will be interesting to see how deep they go and what they consider to be the "facts" as it were. One of the best things about loving Warhammer is that the lore is constantly in flux and pretty slapdash (lovely arguments incoming...) so the stories they tell here could be fun to follow.
The Warhammer Vault & App Support
As well as the new shows, Games Workshop is also going to be folding the Warhammer 40,000 App and a new Warhammer Age Of Sigmar App into their subscription service. These will work more or less as they have before, allowing you to access Warscrolls and Datasheets and do a bit of army building.
You will also be able to access the Warhammer Vault. This includes dozens and dozens of past publications from Games Workshop which have now been digitised. Want to read an out-of-date scenario book from two editions ago? You got it! I do like that they're putting lots of old White Dwarf magazines into the mix though. It might be fun for those who want to seek out that old bit of lore to inspire a new army.
Warhammer+ Miniatures
Subscribing to Warhammer+ also gets you access to one of two exclusive miniatures. If you subscribe for a full year (and you MUST be subscribed for a year) you'll get either this Orruk Megaboss...
Orruk Megaboss // Games Workshop
...or this Vindicare Assassin for "free" Well, more of a loyalty scheme than anything I guess. The miniature will be sent to you as you hit that year mark and then each year there will be another miniature for you to pick up.
Vindicare Assassin // Games Workshop
If you like both miniatures, don't worry, the one you don't pick is going to be made available for you to buy separately. I think a lot of people are going to pick the Vindicare Assassin but I quite like the Orruk Megaboss.
Worth The Price?
Well, the proof will be in the pudding but I will cautiously say yes. For £4.99 you're getting access to the two Apps which is reason enough if you're a big Warhammer wargamer. Add onto that the in-house shows, the Warhammer Vault, the miniatures and the animations and you've got a pretty tidy package.
I am interested to see how the additional offers and discounts shake out. Games Workshop isn't known for doing that kind of thing so I do wonder what they have in mind. I'm of a mind to try it at the very least. I quite like the sound of the new shows they've planned at the very least.
I wouldn't begrudge you waiting to see how it works out though. The delivery of all of this has got to be on point. Sure, they've promised a lot of good stuff but it has to be made available in a way that slick and easy to use.
Are you tempted by Warhammer+?
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Tempted? Nope. And why did they only put up prices in GBP and US$? I would think that the EU is not a small market… sooo…. what’s the cost there? Is G’wullu afraid it they offer services in the EU they’d loose money on the exchange rates? Will it even be available in all regions or will parts be gated to certain regions?
Not taking any chances there.
They have said they will reveal more localised pricing and information on that closer to the period as and when they know it. Whatever that means heh…
I will be interested to see how they work all of that.
So confident in their promo vid that they turned off the comments 🙂
They turn off the comments in all their videos so nothing new there
Most, not all… but still 😉
And yes, the YouTube comment section puts places like Mos Eisley to shame 😉
From what I heard it’ll be 5.50 in euro (or more likely 5.49) and 54.99 for the year in Euro.
Not only heard they stated the € prices and they are in the main promotional video 😉
Yep, my mistake – I think the localised pricing was for other countries around the world etc.
Yeah, they don’t want to show what the Oz and NZ price will be….
It can’t be at their normal conversion rates, especially as there is no transportation involved, except for the minis….
But then it will show up how much they have been ripping us off if it is too different.
I’m kind of agreeing with you here, and personally, I will sign up, if only for the Vindicare assassin and the animations.
However, I see a kind of danger in GW monopolizing and building such a strong virtual media presence. This will enforce the whole Warhammer-hobby grip especially on new people;e and fanboys, and will definitely be a huge issue for the non-GW companies in the non-historic Miniature Wargaming scene.
I think a lot of it depends on the delivery of all this. I’m very interested, as you are, but it needs to be done in a way that isn’t mind-bogglingly complicated. If their platforms work then I can see this going well. You can have all the content in the world but if it’s hard to watch/access then what’s the point (I see you Disney+…although you have got better recently). As for building up the presence. I don’t think it’s going to have too much more of an impact than it has done already. I don’t think there’s enough… Read more »
I don’t think they’ll draw existing players from Non-GW games, but I think it will be certainly made much, much harder for GWS competitors, both miniatures and i.e. Paint companies to draw in new players, or draw player from GW to themselves . The technical issues will be a whole other thing, I think there will have to be like 4 apps at least: AoS, 40k, Movies and pdfs from what they have provided, rolling all this into one app, while possible would be a nightmare both from the backend as well from the UX/UI perspective. Tbh the by far… Read more »
Get this ‘free’ miniature for just £60.
I’m surprised GW didn’t monopolize their (virtual) media presence sooner … (they more or less have been doing it with their physical presence since day 1)
WoTC did it when Dragon/Dungeon went digital more than a few years ago.
I always thought that was a sign of things to come for this hobby to be honest.
Maybe the event(stay indoors) helped GW management to see things more clearly ?
I will be signing up, the vindicare and the vault sealed it for me. From what I have seen the reaction in the GW community has been very positive and I suspect they will get a fair chunk of subscriptions at launch.
I am particularly pleased that it is far more than just the annimations, as I could never see how that would be sustatinable or justify the price. However with the amount of content included, my first reaction was that £5 a month was pretty cheap.
At this point it seems GW is no longer interested in bring in new people to the hobby, but just rinsing the existing fans for as much money as possible. Is this the exit strategy for the owners?
This is certainly aimed at someone already invested in Warhammer – especially with the likes of the Masterclass, Loremasters, Vault and Animations. I wouldn’t say that they’re not interested in new people though. They have probably one of the easiest to access games in the world which is readily available pretty much anywhere. Twin that with hundreds of ways to play games, learn to paint and more – it’s hardly a terrifying prospect to get involved. Yes, it’s pricey and yes there are still plenty of questionable decisions made by them as a company. AND, I do agree that they… Read more »
The price seems alright, I mean the mini is about half of a years subscription price, though getting both minis would be better and you will only get them next year. Question is though how long can they keep this up and how good is the content? There is a lot of free lore, paint and battle reports videos on the net. I would like too see some terrain building videos (and please without having to buy 3 boxes to get the pieces) and conversions videos. And why not watch someone from GW play some GW video games, could be… Read more »
Yep – I am interested to see what the longevity of this endeavour is. If that weekly tempo is kept up etc.
Can we expect them to go after some of the lore YT channels with cease and desist lawyer letters?
With out a doubt. Just a matter of time.
Ouch.
I honestly think they have no leg to stand on there, but that has never stopped them in the past.
I am coming round to Warhammer + The 49.99 for the year is reasonable with a the model and animations. Would like see what coverage the boxed games get. It will be interesting to see how much of their currant content (youtube and twitch) gets moved behind the pay wall.
From listening to the very heavily scripted Twitch segment for each of their in-house shows, they do seem open to suggestions. I too would like to see stuff for Warcry, Necromunda etc – especially done as long-running campaigns.
According to their stream, existing shows on YouTube and Twitch won’t be going anywhere. So, you’ll still get free painting tutorials and their hobby round-ups etc.
Also at £5 more than the Cult of games subscription if you get the early pass. Perhaps it is time to rise your prices!
good to hear that the YouTube content isn’t going anywhere.
I was and continue to question how much content they can churn out to keep this a viable platform. 5 quid a month doesn’t seem huge – might eat into OTT subscriptions mind!
I thought the price to be okay and range of material in the current package pleasantly surprised me. There are slightly unrealistic expectations around as to the scale and scope of the animation side from the beginning. This sort of thing takes serious investment and with access to far far more resources neither Apple nor Disney’s initial offerings were that great. The idea that GW should take their animations to Netflix or Amazon strikes me as unrealistic, they simply don’t have enough right now to be interesting. I suspect this current wave of animations is only a test to gauge… Read more »
The problem with the animations is that they all look like bolter porn, something that will be interesting only to dedicated warhammer fans. Taking them to netflix would be pointless.
That too yes.
Alas, i’m not the target audience and most of this content probably wouldn’t be for me. I’m not interested in access to the app (because i don’t play the (current versions of the) games, and in any case probably wouldn’t use the apps), nor the exclusive shows (because i’ve not found Games Workshop’s content that worthwhile and there are better sources for lore and for the kind of painting tutorials i’m interested in), nor the event extras. I’d be happy with one of those two miniatures but i might well sell it and i’d almost certainly sell the other one… Read more »
If I were more of a GW fan, and had more time for vid watching I’d think it was good value. The animations look absolutely top notch.
Also, that Vindicare Assassin is giving off some strong Joe Pineapples ABC Warrior vibes!
I had totally forgotten about the 40K Assassin’s didn’t even realise they were still a thing in the modern game.
I wonder which design came first? the Simon Bisley take on Joe or the Jes Goodwin Assassin?
I seem to recall it was the late 80’s when Bisley was illustrated for 2000AD.
Cons…
Apps I don’t use…
How to paint videos when there that loads of free ones…
Some ‘exclusive miniatures’ I don’t want.
Some animations that look awful.
Costs almost as much as netflix for a fraction of the material
Pros…
Some animations that don’t look awful.
Conclusion… Not worth the mnoney.
Doesn’t seem worth it to me but then again it might not even be available here in Nordic countries.
It really seems like the animations are just “bolted on” to the subscription now. That is the real draw in my opinion, and would really depend on how often they produced content. But obviously its not the focus, its just one of several other things. And I think with how expensive animation shows are, we all know just how much of the “pie” they will get. The smallest piece… thats what. Besides the App, it seems like they are trying to show all this other stuff you get as well. So worth it, here is all this other stuff. But… Read more »
GW’s execution of their apps has been …. mixed, as have their previous forays into the world of animation.
It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out.
I’m far too old of a fart for any of this to be relevant to me, but it’ll be interesting to see if it catches on amongst the young hoodlums out there.
So they are expecting people to sign up without seeing any of the shows? Christ even the porn channel’s have a free view section on the channel.
Well no they have release trailers of the of the shows and an extended intro from one of the shows. I dont doubt they will do more in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph1_r4K_7LI&ab_channel=Warhammer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad4BrJitN88&ab_channel=Warhammer
Disney+ had very little in way of previews … and it banked heavily on people loving Starwars at launch.
Netflix also tries to get you to subscribe before you can check what they have available in your region (it’s pretty hard to find on their website).
Star Trek Discovery was used to get people to subscribe to another streaming service that I can’t remember at this time.
It’s par for the course for these things.
There’s a reason why they’re dangling that ‘exclusive’ miniature in front of everyone.
Star Trek Discovery – was CBS All Access in the US, Netflix elsewhere.
That streaming service has now been renamed Paramount+ (’cause all of these things have to end in + now.)
Plus is what ‘Turbo’ used to be last century …
It’s what every ‘cool’ thing has to be, because it sounds like it adds value when in reality it decreases it.
The + = extra fees?
Like the idea of this. Be nice to see the animation stuff. My only, little, concern is that they will fudge the battle reports when showing off a new army, They do it in WD. Would like to see army building videos.
I was hopefull they would include access to the applications to the price. The fact they include a figure, additional painting guides, lore videos etc. I am quite interested in old copies of White Dwarf, books and other materials. I have a reasonable collection and it is nice to look back on the wealth of material they have. The key will be just how far back they go. I find the some of the complaints a little odd on this service. I accept it might not be for everyone even I am not sure sure if personally something I would… Read more »
I wonder if this is about creating a subscription model that could be moved into distributing STL files if the market moves too far in that direction.
Doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me. I have no interest in paying $6 a month for access to what they’ve currently got.
To me it’s more like a digitizing of their White Dwarf subscription model.
Maybe a precursor to selling armylists and rules on-line as well ?
You kind of get that with their army builder apps already.
And given that WD is more or less advertising we pay for … this streaming service won’t be any different.
The price level is low enough to tempt a lot of people even with as little content as they’ve revealed.
Give it a few months and we will see how good/bad it gets.
GW already sells their rulesets and White Dwarf in a digital format.
True. I do wonder if they want to do some of the current content of WD as video in the future.
GW certainly spends a lot of money shipping vast amounts of paper around the world. It isn’t like the early 2000s where the US, UK, and OZ+NZ+Asia had their own, locally produced, versions.
It depends on how they structure things. It would seem strange to me for example to have two departments within GW going through battle reports, one filmed and one for print of sorts. Nor would they go though the same battle report for two different outlets as too many people would have access to both.
I don’t think they would want to get rid of WD either in the medium term as I suspect having a physical magazine in shops to capture audiences via another route is still very much in line with their model.
I can see your point about not wanting to get rid of White Dwarf (and I believe that they will keep the brand on whatever format becomes their standard) but I do wonder if the returns on it are decreasing. I could very much imagine a future where the physical magazine is not a viable model for it, and I have no idea how far we are from that being the reality.
but you get to keep it … (or at least have a chance of gaining permanent access to it)
with this subscription model access to their content is limited to the time you subscribe, because I kind of doubt you get to keep any of it.
Yeah- but that’s becoming a thing with other media (like how Disney+ shows aren’t getting physical releases). I mean, I get why people want to own stuff like this, but I also feel like I’m watching that model slowly fade away. I could also see them using this to change the way that they update armies. Rather than having a book that updates everything in the codex all at once, they could move to a place where they release new units here and there instead- making it easier to go back and add something that might be missing from the… Read more »
they kind of do that already with their ‘chapter approved/generals handbook’series.
And they’ve been using White Dwarf to sneak in previews and new updates since forever.
I can understand why GW (and others) do it like this, but I don’t like it as I prefer to own a good hardcopy. Having stuff digital should be a bonus, not an essential part of the hobby. This is kind of why I didn’t get attached to Starwars Legion … there is nothing to collect in terms of rules, army lists and campaign material.
Quite telling when the biggest draw to their “warhammer streaming” service is having an exclusive miniature included in the price. Not really seeing the value in this one, but I’m sure plenty of people will enjoy those sub-RWBY animations.
Call me old school, but I do not have a smart phone and I have no interest in getting one. I do not use apps, and wonder how much of this could be used using a pc/laptop. Just a thought. I prefer hard copy find it easier to read that staring at a computer screen.