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40K has never been cheap.
At no point.
Back in 3rd Ed, plastic Tac Marines were £1; a full Tac Squad for £10 or that 5-man Combat Squad for £5. Even with inflation, that's only like £18.50 for the full 10, so why the frick is a Tac Squad now £35?
Offer to mow the lawn and maybe your mom will increase your allowance.
>dude if you don't like being ripped off you're poor
moron. It's poorgays who unthinkingly piss their money away on overpriced junk because they're completely undiscerning as consumers (which is why they stay poor)
dude frickin monopose Nagash with Nagashface was like £15 in 1994 when he released
the monopose 2E or the 3E no options ones?
>or the 3E no options ones?
The only things it's 'missing' by comparison to the current version are a power fist, grav gun and combi weapon
The nagash face nagash has a better face than the "good" nagash face sculpt
GW is going for the Price = Prestige effect. Idiots, anti social shut ins and the judgementally challenged like to blow their time and wealth on useless things in an attempt to signal how successful they are. GW models are like a rapper's bling, spoilers on Ford Escorts, or Trump Victory Sneakers, the buyer gets recognition and worth from other pathetic buyers, but disdain and pity from everyone else.
My dude, tons of Oldhammer models are STILL cheaper than their equivalents in current 40k.
>inb4 cherrypicks rare models
That's blatantly untrue. I started the game with Assault on Black Reach which was $60 back in 2008 for everything in pic related. Now $60 doesn't even pay for a single box of monopose troops once you include shipping. I'd have never gotten into this shit as a kid if I couldn't justify splitting a box with my older brother for the cost of a videogame, I'd have just gone back to playing fricking WoW.
This, Warhammer has gone up in price by about 300% in a decade. And the crazy part is, it doesn't seem to affect their sales because so many people have stockholm syndrome.
All of your alternative games are not simply ugly but also overpriced for what they are- mantic is actual dogshit that costs almost as much as warhams.
>are not simply ugly but also overpriced for what they are
But enough about warhammer.
No dude, mantic is shit and so are all your other ones. They cost too much for a "warhammer alt". It makes more sense just to buy GW or a 3d printer. Now frick off and stop complaining about other people's money.
In Mantic's defense - they see what people are willing to pay and increase their prices to match.
That's perfectly sensible. They'd be dumb not to.
What happened after 2008? Financial crisis that raised the prices of everything, brexit fricked over the export/import industry in UK making the shipping costs increase, pandemic and support of the ukrainian war increased the inflation making everything more expensive... Did you not notice that fricking everything had gotten more expensive since 2008?
>Did you not notice that fricking everything had gotten more expensive since 2008?
Not to this degree, not even close.
Ah yes, the 300% inflation we had since 2008.
>$60
Retail was $75 USD for 46 models on the same month of the 2008 housing crash
It has the same buying power as $105.73 nowadays.
You can get the Warhammer 40k starter set for 10th for $93.50 on Amazon which contains 38 models.
Slightly less? Sure but they're also more detailed.
It hasn't gone up THAT much if you compare pound for pound.
comparing costs in the past with inflation to costs now doesn't work without taking into account that wages have stagnated and not gone up with inflation, so not only are your dollars worth less you don't even have more of them than someone with the same job 20 years ago.
>so not only are your dollars worth less you don't even have more of them than someone with the same job 20 years ago.
This just isn't true.
Real wage growth has stagnated (Though there has been *some* growth), but there has absolutely been nominal wage growth.
You add near stagnant growth along with insane cost increases in foundational aspects of life (home, education, healthcare etc) and you've fricked the ability for people to live better lives.
Losing real pensions and the like was also another huge blow. People now have to manually save for retirement as opposed to getting a fixed income for life once they retired. Now you need to save up about a half a million to retire.
>two people in this thread stealthily return the goalpost BACK into the standards of observable fricking reality
DA BOYZ
I started in 2nd and shit was ridiculously cheap before they had such a massive market dominance. I used to order any metal part I wanted and had it shipped from the UK to Australia.
Zoom zoom
I paid $60 for this.
How much did they charge for the MTO set (which doesn't even have all the fricking books and templates) again?
>starting
If you're doing to respond to obvious bait, at least say something original
And also sage
>at least say something original
The truth doesn't need to be original.
It does when you're responding to an obvious troll baiting out that specific response.
Some of us don't feel like increasing our work hours from 50 to 51. But I'm glad the job you love so much allows you to arbitrarily work as many extra hours as you want so you can always afford more overpriced junk.
funny I just found a new recaster, biggest range I've ever seen and cheap as frick, test minis came and he's AAA/AA
I sincerely wish I didnt have trust issues and could order from these places.
Order a test model. I don't want to be that guy but if you can't afford to piss away $9 + shipping, you wouldn't have been able to afford 40k anyway.
NTA, but is there any recommended site to order from or its it all done on Telegram or something? I wouldn't mind picking up some Forgeword stuff cheaper if that possible?
most have storefronts on the net bro, like I said, dark mini was my go to before the war, could pay in crypto and get a extra 10% off, don't think they care about GW legal as they are pretty much at war with UK and the fact GW came out and boycotted russia
I've ordered from about 10 different ones over the years, they were all good, worst was AA quality, best was better than the FW original it was copied from, just get a test mini or two if you are unsure, the new stuff now is identical to GW
Do you have any recommendations for some of your favorite ones? never even knew this was a thing
Come on James, you can do better than that
You could burn yourself with 3 scammers sending you nothing and it would still be cheaper than buying from GW
If you ensure that payment is handled through a middleman like paypal then the absolute worst thing that can happen is you waste like 20 bucks and don't get anything
I bought some Heresy stuff and I could literally have bought 4 sets of them before I hit the GW/FW price.
It was as perfect as resin gets anyway, so wasn't an issue, but in theory.
Where to buy?
this guy didn't want me giving out his info, but aliexpress
I don't think Russians care about James's cease and desists anymore
yeah my fav were the Russian ones, dark mini was best realistic one, the pirates company was good, blackmarket mini is the best but $$$
If you're in Australia Russia is a prob as auspost doesn't cooperate with russia
also forgemylegion, all4, zackgame, ect ect they're all decent
gey a search engine that isn't israelitegle and image search the rare mini you want
amazing, ty anon, there's some stuff (especially middle hammer and old hammer stuff) that I can't seem to find anywhere as an STL even with countless hours of scouring telegram. recasters sounds like a good way to go for that stuff.
Any idea how long it takes blackmarket minis to ship? Made a first time small test order 3 weeks ago and it's still processing
mine took about 5 weeks to get to Australia, but that was before the war
there are two BMM sites, you used the .su one right? I don't know about the other one
Two sites, you mean the .net one being the second? Whenever I type in .su it goes straight to .net. Although I have no idea if that's how that's supposed to work
Imagine giving your credit card information to some foreign stranger so that you can save literally one hours worth of labour and then going online and bragging about it.
Yeah better to give it to trusted companies like Sony.
>what's prepaid load card
LMAO let me just go out of my way to drive to a store to buy a seperate credit card so that I can go to an obscure site, so that I can order a ripoff mini that takes god knows how long to ship so that I can save literally one hours worth of labour. Genius move.
Bro I'm in Australia, if there's a prob the bank cancels it and refunds me, they don't give a frick
>Cheap as frick
>$10 for a single space marine
>Probably sagging resin full of voids
Even shitty recasts these days are more expensive than official minis should be
That's not so bad if it's Kangaroobucks
>starting
$42 for a Terminator and HQ unit. That’s a good price. They should be charging more.
From what third world country you come from?
Just make my 3D printer a better deal. 2 HQ, 2 vehicles and 2 Squads, and it paid for itself.
What do you mean "starting to"?
>When the Eldar models increased 80% in price I did not say anything, because I did not play Eldar
>When Necron models increased 70% in price, I did not say anything because I did not play Eldar.
>But when SMC was raised 80% price, there was no one left to speak for me. And then OP called me a gay.
FRICK
ELDAR
>starting
Oh, my sweet summer child
>starting to
I hate JW and jannies.
40k prices could be slashed in half and the game would still be a comical ripoff. There isn't a single army that can be built under a thousand dollars. Anyone who spends that much on any game is a pathetic failure of a human.
t. broke anon is coping
The individual character models have definitely gotten silly expensive. They're on par with the cost of entire boxes from just a few years ago.
I bought the heroes of the chapter set with 5 captains for £20 before it went out of stock... the same amount one single plastic captain was being sold for.
Some promo stuff is still alright, £120 for Leviathan felt like good value considering how much you got. However there's issues with just doing that, most obviously that you'd struggle to make a coherent force with just box sets.
Inb4 poorgay, just because I can blow £25 on a single miniature and not worry about it doesn't mean I cant blow it on something more fun.
still buy them
The value of an item is determined by the market.
GW is still selling out of most of what they produce and their FOMO hype machine model of pumping out barely supported minimal releases is working. It's going to get worse before it gets better. The best things people can do if they are unhappy with GW's pricing is to stop buying GW products, and if someone in your local store is using proxies, don't give them a hard time for it. Or better yet, to try other wargaming systems entirely. There are a lot of very fun rulesets out there that are miniature agnostic or at the very least aren't several hundred dollars of plastic to get into.
Meanwhile
>sauce some new Sororitas plastics from Ebay, expensive but I'm okay with it
>combine them with some old metals I have, and an original plastic rhino
>spend a bit more to get nice heads so I don't have to rely on painting to fix gw's 41%er misters of battle faces
>and some stuff for custom working + 3rd party minis
>now have a nice small force
>play 5core/parasecs, Xenos rampant, and a bunch of other games with my small but nice force that cost me a fraction of a "trve" gw army
>happily mix in other makers minis
Gw is overpriced. Only buy of there's no other options for what you want, and play games with a sane mini count.
I can feel my hips cringing at that dorfs backpack. That sort of weight is crippling to carry ant real distance.
t. Hiker who made the mistake of overpacking exactly once
anti-proxy homosexualry is embarrassing
>starting
>starting to
In the past, we could shit all over people we didn't like to stop them joining the hobby. Now that has become socially unacceptable for whatever the frick reason we have to find another way. The best we've come up with so far is to price out entry. The grogs will keep going no matter what because they've already sold their souls, as long as it's too expensive for other people to start up we get to enjoy our game in peace.
Obviously then it'll die off when the grogs die off, but as I'm one of those grogs I'll be dead by the time that becomes a problem, so zero fricks given.
Shit man, if only there was a cheaper alternative...
*gets cancer*
t. eats barbecue
>*gets cancer*
Every thing is cancer I can bet you it says so on the back of your boxes!
Also cancer is caused by parasites.
>Cheaper
Top fricking kek
Call me back when you figure out how to make actual models on your own. Then we can talk about cheapness, labour notwithstanding
Honestly if you're still buying models from Games Workshop, you probably qualify as mentally disabled, so you can get welfare from your government to fuel the plastic crack addiction.
Gundams are much larger, have moving parts and still cheaper.
Starting huh?
>Americans and firsties can pay 42 USD for a single model without compromising their quality of life
>Meanwhile, I have to make my own tanks, buy recasts, print rulebooks, use chinese brushes and paints and pirate even free stuff
Feels poor man.
>Is GW starting to overprice their models?
Starting? Where have you been?
Was Brexit a mistake
the world is run by banks and corporations supported by their class elite.
3d printers guys, the time has come. This is it, affordable printers that can print models indiscernible from GW released just last fall.
Mars 4 is $250usd. It's got 0.018 precision, vs injection molding's
0.010, and paint primer more than bridges the gap.
3d scans of new models get posted to telegram almost day of release.
Don't know what any of you dumbasses are waiting for at this point. Going to pick up a $40 bottle of resin and print 2000pts of Knights this month.
>a core set with ONE ARMY
>£175
>consists almost entirely of early 2000s sculpts
wtf happened this also looks like shit compared to
look at the minis positioning... the books... everything feels so souless in the newest relase
>wtf anons... GW product photos on a white background used to have SOVL...
Jesus christ man, GW slurps shit but this is grasping for straws.
>Intercessors and Assault are $60 for 10 models
>Jump Pack Assault is $60 for 5
How does GW justify this?
Wait wait wait. Why are they $60? At least you can make the excuse Terminators are elite units.
>ITT: people who never played or had any interactions with the hobby insist it wasn't always this expensive
>BEST
>MINIS
>IN
>THE
>BUSINESS
>Starting