I was really surprised to see Warhammer especially and miniature painting blow up like it did 3 years ago.
Now it seems like normies already lost interest, scalpers are sitting on mountains of dead stock, ebay resellers aren't moving much and selling under MSRP.
Think another hype will come or did Bidenomics and the Ukraine war destroy people's willingness to spend on luxury goods?
>ebay resellers aren't moving much and selling under MSRP
Where give me store names. All the shit I see is either overpriced nos/oob or MSRP+shipping, the cheap stuff is a scam to rip you off with excessive shipping fees (which they don't have to refund).
Agreeing with this anon OP show me where prices have actually gone down and I'd be grateful.
Nearly everything I see on eBay is the standard 15% off. NOS stuff can sometimes be found cheaper but you got to search through a lot, try slightly different wordings. eBay search is really fricky. Sometimes you do a Google or duck duck go search and then click the shopping tab and you'll see some eBay listings that you can't find just searching on eBay.
Battletech is doing fine. Have you tried not playing a shit game?
He thinks "Bidenomics" hurt GW sales. Of course he hasn't tried playing a good game.
Corporations aren't our friends, more news at 11
People had nothing to do at home, got direct checks, and didn't have other things to spend it on. And inflation hadn't really hit yet.
You sir is a wise black man.
>got direct checks
That only happened a couple times, anyways.
Income tax refunds also
Price jumped up faster than interest could grow.
Good. Frick normie tourists and total scalper death.
alt games with fun rules are doing well in my city. flesh and blood, infinity, etc
it doesn't help that the game is unplayable shit, it's just receding back to the same level it was at in the past since Black folk have realized it's a lot of effort for just suffering
guranteed its because of price hikes compensating for the lower sales
Kinda thick, aren't you?
are you upset GWshill? or do you actually think stocks have nothing to do with profits?
Are you stupid? That's a graph of share price, it has literally nothing to do with "price hikes".
moron, what governs share prices if not the profits and success of a company you fricking fool
Everybody ran out of money from buying from GW
Its the economy stupid. All those newbloods were blowing covid bux on things they could do at home, now that hoaxvid is done and Pfizer and the politicians who invested in them got their pound of flesh from the stockmarket normies are back in work with no free money and everything costs more.
I like to think, similar to how blizzard "balanced" world of warcraft, that people are sick of the model of edition changes. Nothing really changes and instead its just a cycle of one faction or two having their time in the spot light. It becomes predictable and boring and if your army is shit you may aswel sit the whole game out until its not. If they actually changed the core rules in some interesting and meaningful way then i would have been more interested for longer.
This is entirely subjective and wishful thinking on my part and prob little to do with it and more to do with price.
It's happening at even a faster rate now.
I had a 2000 point. I figured I was done buying stuff and I was just going to put it all together. Then my army was performing like shit and GW's answer was to lower the points cost of everything instead of improving them to be worth the points... So now I only have a 1700 point army. I was done buying stuff, so now I can just play smaller games I guess.
Unless you play Eldar, in which case you always find a way into the meta with your 20 year old models
Focking baaaaziiiiinnngggaaa
Wargames that arent shit and arent insanely overpriced are doing just fine. Only GW slop is hurting now that people wont take out a new line of credit to buy a box of 6 models. Gaslands, Battletech, any historical rules, and roleplaying games are doing perfectly fine.
While I have the floor I would also like to say frick GW.
Did I miss a good opportunity to sell off my pile of shame?
I'd just like to point out that all these stuff in the boxes are merchandise that had to be trashed because of a sewage leak.
So what you're saying is, free warhammermen AND free Nurgle specialty paints?
>Is it over
No, it's just beginning.
Just this year GW opened a huge store in Akihabara, Tokyo
They've opened up an entirely new market of hyper otaku
Given the fact that, knowing pretty well this demographic, japanese otaku rarely flinch at spending hundred/thousand of dollars per month in a hobby they like.
The few time I passed there to buy paint, the café seemed to have a pretty good "newbie attraction" potential also.
>otaku investing into a hobby with ZERO cheesecake models
Prepare for an influx of doujins
Or new cheesecake models.
Somebody think of the scalpers 🙁
>these companies claim to be all in for equality and helping those in need
>not giving those boxes to people who want to play but can't afford it
kek
Wait for the Cavell/Amazon show to drop, all the Marvel onionbois floundering now thier precious Avengers has finished will be throwing disposable income at GW. Good time to be a commission painter
>Now it seems like normies already lost interest
Thank God