So, now White Dwarf is going to Mini-Dwarf magazine! It
appears that the price is $4 a book for 32 pages. Now it sounds like they have
acknowledged they are going to move away from the Sears and Roebuck style of
making their magazine a glorified catalog and actually make it a hobby magazine
again! Wow! What a concept!
Problem is the game SUCKS ASS! Yea, let’s throw in Forge
World, Super Heavies and extra Fortifications to make up the sales and totally
push the game from any concept of competitive gaming to ROCK>BIG
ROCK>BIGGER ROCK! Wow, Magic the Gathering for Minis, do you kiddies have
your credit cards yet? Better get a larger limit!
Great idea, but a few years late there White Dwarf, guess
you see the writing on the wall and trying to find a new way to rake in some
extra cash? How so? $4 a pop equals $208 per year, even discounted they would
make more than their typical subscription rate of 12 issues for the prize of 10
(or 8 if you are willing to go to a GW store to pick it up)....yea the one’s that
are closed at weird hours, has limited hours and run by a lackluster black shirt
that is worked like a slave and is conditioned to be a used car salesman when
you walk in.
I pray that if there is an 7th that it may bring
some hope back to the game, but I doubt it. As long as they keep letting these
knuckle-dragging-idiots push the game along in this direction, right into the
pit of despair and hell itself! Oh well, good news there are plenty of other
games out there and we can always go back and play “Classic Hammer” back when
editions was worth a shit.
Wish in one hand, poo in the other....which one fills faster?
A very inciteful, albeit sad, commentary. I have only been a 40k collector/player for a short time. Still, I have seen a steady decline in the GW HQ's grip on reality. It would be nice if 8th ed. brought a return to something akin to normality but, I too, doubt it!
ReplyDeleteYep, I am already starting to lighten the GW load of my collection.
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