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Post by chris_cain on Jul 28, 2014 22:25:38 GMT 1
Looks like the profit margins are down again this year, things not looking rosey for the third(perhaps fourth?) year in a row, since they started moving to single person stores at least. Hoping this doesn't lead to another insane price rise, I'm still wanting to finish my Hobbit/LOTR collection sometime soon without entirely wrecking the bank. www.beastsofwar.com/games-workshop/kirby-stepping-gw-ceo-interesting-preamble/ |
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Post by docmartin on Jul 29, 2014 11:02:53 GMT 1
As some people have mentioned on the various blogs, they could sell-off their "specialist" game ranges..... or consider allowing them to be reactivated under licence! There must be shed-loads of great older models that they could re-release as "classics"  I've already seen the return of The Sisters Of Battle..... surely, after seeing the kind of prices that things like the Adeptus Arbites fetch on eBay, they are missing a trick here!? |
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Post by chris_cain on Jul 30, 2014 9:37:27 GMT 1
Aye mate, there is a lot they 'could' do, we all know they probably wont though. The full report is even worse, has even made the Telegraphs/Torygraphs financial section. On a year including releases for new Space Marines and a new 40k codex (their best selling items) pre-tax profit is down 41% (£9 million) with total sales down around 8%, this also leads some credence to the stories going around about how 7th edition 40k was released a year earlier than planned to bump the end of year numbers (which it hasn't really). I don't know how I feel about it to be honest. I love old 40k, but I still have Necromunda, 2nd/3rd edition 40k and 4th/5th edition Warhammer, I don't really need the new stuff, especially at the prices. It's always sad when you can see the gradual decline of a childhood 'love'. I'm honestly more sad about how they've let the LotR license rot, it's one of the best skirmish games most people have never played. www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10997611/Fantasy-figures-Games-Workshops-CEO-takes-alternative-view-of-good.html |
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I've already seen the return of The Sisters Of Battle..... surely, after seeing the kind of prices that things like the Adeptus Arbites fetch on eBay, they are missing a trick here!?