IT'S STILL HAPPENING. GW WONT TALK ABOUT IT | Warhammer 40,000 40K News/Discussion
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0:00 Preamble
3:03 Acquisitions
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22:42 What IS Available?
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Its been about 8 months since we last talked about all the product issues around 40K and its adjacent game systems, there was more to think about than I anticipated - and either way - even if youre not here for the tabletop - this should be a great #Luetinsleepclub video
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Lol, I admit I do occationally do this lmao
ever see a scalper at mc donald... supply enough of what you selling and people will buy from you ,but having 70% of your stuff unavailable show they don t care ( same investor than disney so dont expect much)
bro everything nerd has been pozzed there is no solace. the real war comes. Anyway if not keep the great content coming. Hope you are well!
Lutein, I don't play 40k tabletop, I don't purchase any of the figurines, nor do I have any of the game books. Despite the fact that none of this affects me personally, or has any bearing on the things I really care about...here I am, watching all the way to the end.
And I love it. 🤷♂️
Limited runs should turn into made to orders. Once the initial run is done. Every 1000 or so orders come in, a new batch of models, book prints, etc get made and shipped out. Remove a large chunk of FOMO
I think this is how P-Bandai handled their limited runs (at least in the past, haven't bought a model kit in a while), there were still people buying to resell for inflated prices at a later date but it wasn't at the detriment of everyone else who genuinely wanted a kit for themselves.
Hell, isn't this how miniature related kickstarters handle their orders? I'm sure GW can switch to doing it too.
Makes sense and that is why they won't do it.
Why? FOMO is highly profitable.. sure theyd make more the first 2 products that csme out under this model.. but then players wouldnt feel the need to get every "limited" release at launch "oh ill just wait" and then thats no longer a guaranteed sale....
I can agree with you. They need to make it all made to order.
Well by the time you got it you'd have forgetten you'd ordered it
I appreciate you actually going over what is actually availeble and not just doomsaying
I was surprised how well supplied most of the major ranges were, but the adjacent game systems are suffering
we all will die before emperor Resurrection
it's a bit misleading though since availability in different regions vary. in the us kits are out of stock much more frequently. you can easily check by yourself by changing your location in the top right corner.
I wanted to get Eisenhorn as a mini but it only seems (or seemed) to be in stock in the UK and Australia 😢
Regional stock variance hurts my feelings haha
@@Luetin09true for 40k but Sigmar restocks are painfully slow. There’s some new models that haven’t been restocked since release and it’s been 4-5 months. Tough if you want to actually play the game
The fact you can't preorder something like the kits is ridiculous, I understand the limited-edition books, regular hard covers should be easy.
Printing is incredibly expensive. And most importantly time consuming.
How the fuck is print incrediblely expensive. Its 2024 @@lewisbenzie845
@@lewisbenzie845 Amazon mass produces books for amateur authors and has done for years. Obviously GW is not Amzn but it's still strange to hear that printing books is difficult in 2024. Especially given that the problem being discussed is that their customers want to buy more.
No reason for books to not print more.
Dude, if enough people press the inform me when available button they would know its worth it. It does not make rational sense not to reprint core lore books (lion book, watchers of the Throne,...)
Rip everything, dont give em money, ☠️
The dude laser scanning the sets and providing the files on torrents is the real MVP. an entry level resin printer makes them easily 👌
Unironically the literal only way to get into the hobby for a good number of people at this point. A grave dug by GW themselves.
Would it be possible for you to point me in the right direction to find these? Much appreciated!
this phenomenon is what made me stop being a hardcore GW collector.
I broke the addiciton and now I selectively pick and choose.
Those of you still in the throes of addiciton - I wish you luck.
It's like people being addicted to Nike and other factory stuff. Mad, innit?
I pretty much just focus on the Omnibuses. Whenever I see one at the store I pick it up.
Glad you are no longer living in bondage my friend
@@TheChurlishBoornever seen the appeal with shoe collecting. However I live in a place where people hace realised fancy shoes really serve no purpose. I have a pair of hiking shoes, one pair of athletic and a few pairs of boots lol
@PolySimian I’m with you brother. I traded my 40k addicted in for a new PC and a butt load of RuST skins. Which I’ve also moved on from, to Deep Rock Galactic.
Rock and Stone! For Carl!!!
Some great points here. They'd be smart to lower their prices, produce more, and get 40k in more hands. But, the more I learn about GW the more I realize it's about control. They want to control the fans, fighting with them so often and it's so strange to me. Customer concerns are last priority. This is why people 3d print the models.
>lower their prices
And I'd like to own my own CR90 corvette, but neither are going to ever happen🤣
It's both a love an hate thing for me.
On the one hand they make it difficult for modernists to ruin the game but on the other hand yes people are disgusting children and if they can't have their way they will literally steal someone's idea just so they can join in something they have no right to...
Like 3d printing people.
@@brianglenney8642How dare those dirty peasants! They should know their station.
It makes sense in a twisted sort of way. The only reason why GW even formed was because the IPs that they blatantly stole from _didn't_ control it with an iron fist and litigate them into oblivion, and 40K is arguably more popular then most of the source material nowadays. They don't want someone doing to them what they did to others.
Dunno whats the hype about stealing GW intellectual property by 3D printing. I mean GW gives people the lore, the books, the content and the universe. GW pays thier employees well does not run child labour and literally treats everybody in the chain well. The Top management and CEO earn less then top management of similar size companies, so they actually dont rob you. And the company is a public listed (owned) company, so basiaclly GW is owned by pension funds and therefore simply secures some peoples retirement.
There are certainly a lot worse companies to support and for real I dont understand the hate GW gets.
It seems to me that over the last few years GW has been transitioning into a "high end, boutique collector" company instead of a game company.
GW themselves have the philosophy of being "a miniatures company, not a game company."
They don't sell many miniatures, considering that.
Company wants to make more money surprisingly
There’s a disconnected between the company and the enthusiasts. They’re trying to cultivate an air of exclusivity. Their customer base is broad, but if I may say so, we’re all a little bit eccentric in a good way, but not likely the kind of people who give a crap about that kind of exclusivity. We make our own exclusivity by painting and finishing the models how we want to, or maybe we just love the lore.
What always gets me is that they have enough of these products to send out literally HUNDREDS of them to UA-camrs and people on other social media platforms - literally GIVING the products away - but can't make their stuff widely available to actual paying customers.
Actual paying customers are suckers to businesses like this
Actual paying customers are fans that will pay money and wait in line to get treated like crap, and then do it again
im sure theyve done that math and figured out how many boxes makes them the most profit per cost
@@rancorusia well said, this is almost certainly the real reason
If they have a million collectors and players, a few dozen people in the net for reviews is a drop in an ocean
I do appreciate GW its commitment to the lore.
Their logistics are about as reliable as the Imperium. Their technology as sophisticated as the Mechanicus. And their communication skills about as good as an Astropathic Choir.
im so glad I understand the 40k universe to this extend.
Central planning, aka communism.
Man did your comment not age well lol
Dude! Congrats on 800k! I’ve been watching for so long now! It feels lie forever! I found you in 2020 when i admit I may have binge watched your entire history of the emperium series during school hours 😅. You are the guy I always reccomend tp people looking to delve deeper into the lore side of 40. Keep up the top teir videos!
Wow that’s a lot of typos
@@extra-terra-strial-bv9pv its the thought that counts :p
I’m in the US and all of Legion Imperialis is completely unavailable. They market the crap out of it and now we can’t get models. A lot of items are unavailable because they weren’t released separately.
I gave up other hobbies to play 40K years ago. I’m honestly thinking that hunting, shooting, fishing and camping may be my choice hobby this year.
every time you shoot a pig you shoot an ork. every time you shoot a fish you shoot a tau. remember to roll your dice before doing that activity
That's mostly what I did.
Now I'm reloading and building out an ar10 platform.
Different rabbit hole.
Why not have all the hobbies? You can come camping with us if you want
murdering animals isnt much of a hobby its just fucked up
@@TheTang3rine we eat what we kill.
Facts, Garro got me into warhammer, with Flight of the Eisenstein. & the follow-up novel Garro, ever since then Garro has definitely been my favorite 40K character, with Belasaurius Cawl a close 2nd. I understand this will be heresy, but ive been enjoying Ku'gath Plaguefather, in the Dark Imperium trilogy quite a bit. His chapters are a reprieve of dark comedy, in the grimdark horror of the setting.
Heresy but a great book indeed
the real kicker about the whole situation is the fact that... its most likely intentional from gw's side too
I saw scalpers posting their receipts online. They were getting 2-3 dozen copies of limited releases each. Less than a hundred scalpers were buying a whole limited run if those numbers reflected the average scalper.
Could solve the problem with limited dates to order, like a 1 week period, and print to order.
I think what gets me the most about this is that warhammer is expensive. I can’t just buy every release and when I know a big thing I want is coming out I generally save up for it. Jumping through those hoops only to feel like I may miss out on my one large purchase of the year is pretty frustrating.
It seems like the death wing box was available a few hours after release in a lot of regions. I don’t know if that’s because of the scalping measure or the general negativity that popped up around the internet from the DA rules. I’ll take it as a step in the right direction.
An experience I had while Christmas shopping sums up GW quite appropriately I think. I walked past the store, which only had staff members inside. Did some shopping at another shop opposite it for 15-20 mins. Dropped in to ask if they had the House of Artifice book in stock. Got told the dont stock any Necromunda products...
I was the only potential customer to step inside for that period, in a busy shopping mall, during one of the biggest retail periods of the year. Why did they not have at least the core 2023 Necromunda book and some representation of the product? The core book was a new product, and the Apocrypha Necromunda book was an upcoming release.
Its as though the prices are set by the writing team, the retail choices are made by the rules team, and the codexes are written by the accountants.
GW has 0 financial interest in correcting this problem. Its better to have high demand and low supply than the other way around. They have already calculated the amount they wish to sell and its well within the margin that they will turn a significant profit. The site crashes only cause people to foam at the mouth with envy and drive their quest to get the next limited edition thing they release first. Simple economics.
True. Up to the point where 3d printing becomes the norm
How is this simple economics? High demand, high supply is simple economics. How does moving more product materially damage GW’s interests in any way?
Actually if you have High demand but low supply, then people are going to just get their own supply, either through bootlegs, or used stuff
buahhahhaaa. Simple who?
@@GaudiaCertaminisGamingbecause they wouldn't be able to sell it at the prices they do now
I mean if cursed city fiasco wont get a statement, youd need the emperor to become actually real for an official gw statement to happen.
The Dark Eldar have taken over GW and are bathing in the fan suffering 😢
They just exchanged their armour for expensive suits and use a modified holofield to aid in the pretense that they are Mon-keigh.
“But how many people have got a Grey Knight Terminator army”
Me - looking at my Grey Knight Terminator Army infront of the TV watching this video
When I first started looking into 40K, so much wasn't available that it convinced me it wasn't worth the headache. So I'll stick to games and the occasional book but I'm not waiting in queues for something that could be printed on demand. I get that scarcity is part of their business model but it's a hell of a way to run a business.
I appreciate any attempt benefiting the fans, and not scalpers.
I’ve been in the hobby for over 20 years and I’ve been saying for at least half that time; that GW NEEDS to increase rate of production and create a dedicated printing press for their library. Reasoning that as an American, I was watching the hobby grow in my country and could see what was coming.
A lot of the time people would argue that 40K isn’t THAT big, but that’s not the point; it is getting there, and with Henry Caville creating a cinematic universe announcement, it just growing faster.
The stupid thing is they had the huge influx due to covid, the fact that they didn't have an immediate meeting to look into the creation of another factory is mind-boggling. Especially considering they keep making new games and have such a huge product range, they need to up production to meet demand.
@@colinbielat8558 This is just mass produced scarcity. Go watch some Reserved Investments. You'll get the point.
Yeah it's so hard to get hold of most of the novels published more than a few years ago. You can't buy 4-6 of the gaunts ghosts novels, or anything by Chris Wraight beyond his most recent work. Real shame
I had looked into the Titanicus boxed set as far back as November, and I tagged the product to get a "Back in Stock" notification. I got one. It's interesting to see that now, all of a month later, it's back out of stock.
It’s the Kirby Curse.
Tom Kirby signed a life time contract with his wife’s amateur development company back in 2012 and we’ve gotten boned ever since.
The worst bit was Saturday afternoon hours after selling out, they posted on Facebook with a link to the death wing set saying pre order your copy now...
I played 40k in the 90s and you have some cracking 'member berries in those images! I wish I still had all the stuff but I'm pretty sure my parents threw it all out.
Who’d thought a well thought out, edited, and produced video could be put together like this. The look at the store is something I’ve yet to see someone do tbh. Awesome work and great listen.
I start to think that the pre orders not only should be handled as preorders, like, before of production to ensure a minimum amount of copies for the interested, but that should be handled on a different website, so i can still buy a squad of cadian shock troops without having to wait 24hrd for no actual reason
The reason why they dont talk about it is the same reason everything sucks in the first place, they aren't trying to make the customer happy they want the shareholders happy
Without the shareholders there wouldn't be a GW... so yeah. Idk about laws elsewhere but in America, corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to make a profit... also let's go down the path of pissing off all the shareholders, well, gw collapses and we only have 40k as a memory, no new content, no new models, no new books. The only way it would exist is in a fan fiction, low budget, community based thing... which some would argue is good, I like the new stories and models and I also don't mind making the creators of this fictional universe rich
@justinwelch1873 suck capitalism's dick all you want but it's when a company's fiduciary responsibility shifted from the public to the shareholders is when our nation shit the bed in 1830. Games workshop might still have its proper playtesting it used to if it wasn't trying to appease shareholders, but nah let's throw out low quality rule books that are wrong before day one and force fans to play test for us then make 500,000 faqs a year instead of only 1-2.
@@justinwelch1873 WH as a fanfiction would be great.
All things considered I'm pretty new to the Warhammer 40K universe. My fandom has been growing for the last several years, and I can definitely say that the Dark Angels are my favorite legion and chapter. I have been getting into the audio books with the Horus heresy, but it's a slow process as there are many entries. You can imagine how ecstatic I was when I heard about the Lion: Son of the Forest novel release. I honestly never knew about any of the special hardcover books that the black library produced. Once I discovered that the Lion had one, I raced to the website to place an order. Suffice it to say, they were long since sold out. eBay was loaded with them, all at extremely marked up prices. This really rubbed me the wrong way since technically the book had not even been shipped yet. At the end of the day, it is just a thing. However it really would have been nice to get a hold of one since I've become such a fan. It's a real pity that games workshop has such a reputation akin to Nintendo in terms of their physical releases.
I totally get how you feel. I’ve missed out on some hardcover copies of books (I’m a physical copy type of guy). Something to consider is GW releases paperback copies eventually, although it’s not as firm as the hardcopy. I say stay optimistic! Things can get better
Thanks for covering this. I know you mostly do lore or otherwise talk about other things set in 40K, and it’s nice for someone who knows been into Warhammer for a long time to talk about the problems going on in the actual tabletop/miniature side of everything.
Ah don't worry I'm sure gw will fumble the entire universe, but don't worry I will still watch whatever 40k videos YOU put out, whethers it's "canon" or something you made, I'll be here because you MADE the universe for me... Thanks
Legit, luetins voice is synonymous woth 40k for me
I absolutely love the lore of 40k, however, I don't play it anymore because of GW policies. I only play One Page Rules games and it brings me joy like 40k used to.
I've been with Warhammer since 1998 so I completely understand what you mean I'm always reminding my friends who have gotten into it around 7th or 8th that the story comparatively is moving at light speed compared to when I got into this, literally nothing ever changed.. ever lol When I was a kid Abandon was the butt of every joke but now he's been molded into something of a real character it's all changed so much for the better and I'm thrilled to be a part of it all by it the logistics and business end do need to get their act together.
As someone who works in e commerce, the problem of scalpers is huge.
It is a continuous war between the scalpers and the seller and who has the advantage changes and procedures and technology adaps on both sides.
But the first step is admitting there is a issue and starting to address it, which it appears GW has done with their queueing system.
Just in time for my bedtime! The adeptus somnum thanks you for your efforts
Another great dissection @luetin! Kingdom death monster used to suffer from these issues. They finally listened and upped their customer service, product inventory, and started using shop. Little issues with scalpers for new models now
Lots of good thoughts and observations here, thanks for the video. The Siege of Terra “limited edition” books are a pure own goal from a product design perspective; what they should have done is made it a “deluxe edition” of say 5-10K copies with just 1,000 of those being signed by the author. A really easy fix and is also an upsell for GW (as opposed to standard hardback) as I’m sure more people would invest if they believed getting a full set was easy at retail.
On miniatures GW know they have insufficient capacity. In the H1 Business Update, 24/25 CEO Kevin Rountree acknowledged this and stated they are exploring setting up another manufacturing location, Factory 4. Of course, they’ll need more warehouse space to hold the extra product this facility could provide.
I found these Lore videos during the pandemic & grappled for a year or 2 with whether or not to get into the collecting side of things & after about 4 years since finding the Lore videos I can safely say I feel I made the RIGHT choice by not delving into the collecting side of this hobby. I very much enjoy the Verse & bought some books but the collecting side is simply out of the question outside of stumbling across something cool in the wild. It is definitely more of an issue in this hobby than others I indulge in.
If you just ignore the latest releases then this just isn’t much of a problem for minis
I wholeheartedly believe that scalpers should have their actual scalps peeled off
Fucking same.
The add to the conversation on scalpers and corporate competence is that a bad reputation is an opportunity cost, meaning that people who would otherwise spend money when they can may instead choose something else because of corporate perception. This seems less important for companies like EA and Activision-Blizzard that have a fanbase of over a billion people, but even publicly traded companies will fire CEOs or replace board members when profits or growth rate is down.
People just don't understand that most outrage spread on the internet is irrational, disorganized, lacks moral or legal basis, or focus on short-term issues (one could say that same about political parties but I digress). This leads to diffusion of issues and disaffected attitudes from those who would want to help out. Thus it is important to band together on select issues and speak out until they are reasonably addressed.
Many years ago I worked in a fraud team for a now defunct online retailer. When we did these kind of deals we had methods to stop multiple purchases via different accounts. Now bots weren't a thing then, however, people would set up multiple accounts - use different cards - addresses but the system would flag these accounts to be manually verified if it found one or more matching details and we'd have to check what was being purchased - the similarity of each account and either approve/deny it. Thats a lot of work for a retailer but it was 14-15 years ago, I'd imagine the technology has improved somewhat and would less rely on a human manually verifying accounts. It would be a financial burden for GW but it would improve their image, especially around these large releases. Oh and just to add we never took payment until the item was in stock ready to be shipped out.
One thought ive seen alot for all these companies trying to make it all digital on platforms they control is for a a few reasons. Make people rent your product with subscriptions and also so when they have a new edition or some such they can just basicaly delete the old one and force you to buy the new stuff for their profit.
Why doesn't GW talk about it................because it would be bad publicity it acknowledge it and that wouldn't go down well with the share holders 🤷♂️
They put the gathering storm books behind the Warhammer+ subscription in the warhammer vault, but that's not the same as having the printed books to read on the sofa.
As someone who collected the main books of the HH over a year or so( just about to finish reading End and the Death vol.1 and waiting on paperback vol.2 in May) you definitely have to order from other sources to get the whole series physically oftentimes needing to shell out some serious cash for the books that are out of print and hard to find , and while I had no preference for paperbacks or hardcovers, sometimes the only option was a hardcover of a book that was almost impossible to secure outside of insane EBay asking prices( the only fairly affordable copy of Angels of Caliban I could find living in CA for instance , had to be ordered from a small bookstore in Amsterdam, Old Earth was another pricey hard to find one). Definitely have always felt that the BLibrary needs to up their game as far as stock, especially for older products
I'll second your Dawn of Fire series comments. Avenging Son and its look at the oppressively entrenched bureaucracy on Terra. The introduction of the Primaris to Fenris and Logan Grimnar's response to Guilliman in Woftime. The deep dive into the pocket society onboard a void ship with a deliciously grim dark conclusion in Sea of Souls... I've seen some negativity online aurrounding Dawn of Fire as a whole, im glad i didnt buy into the hype and tried it out for myself.
I would love a series of the most relevant Planets and their history explained.
It is usually alsway told so incoherent and even major planets aren't mentioned frequently enough to remember what happened in previous books.
I get my copy on Amazon
I have a similar mindset however I only collected limited editions of books I know that id like, I also like the additional art work in them. For example my first limited edition from the siege of terra was Echoes of Eternity and part of that was because I was in the past ordering my books from indigo and amazon so I had no idea that limited editions actually existed. Later on I ended up acquiring limited editions of Warhawk and Lost and the Damned because I enjoyed them immensely and would like to reread them at some point. I also loved Garro as a character as well.
US customer here. Deathwing box was sold out before I got access :/
If they don 't fill the market demand, someone else will. 3D printer goes brrrrrrrrrr
I appreciate the video. I love 40k & would love to own the tabletop models for armies I want.
However, not being able to own the army I want, is ridiculous.
GW lost a potential customer. I imagine I would have spent thousands of dollars on this hobby but, I refuse to be taken advantage of.
Everytime I consider investing in the hobby, everything I want is sold out or out of stock or et-cetra.
It's 2024. It's plastic. Wtf.
A hobby shouldn't be this hard to get into.
I agree 100% with this. I collect the things in the lore that I love and am interested in. This has happened with so much more than the books but, everything which is so frustrating. My option which i hate is to get the novels digitally which I hate (i already said that) but sometimes it's the only way to keep up with it all. I love physical books, but I so love Hard cover books. There is something great about them, lol. Great Video mate and congratulates on the 800k. Will keep watching from Australia mate!
Now that you mention it. I didnt even realise that the deluxe version where signed by the author even though I have bought a few. Thats how little I have cared for the signature part.
End Times 2 Chaotic Boogaloo
I think the scalping and reselling circus is to a degree part of the entire business model.
It worked in a similar way with the fashion brand "Supreme", where reselling was essential to drive hype and demand for the products, and thereby fueled the brand's success.
It just happened again. The black Library Celebration started about 90 minutes ago. For the last week BL has been hyping the preorders on social media. They told us, in the States, that the preorders would go live at 5 am EST. Cool, so I got up at 4:45 and when 5 rolled around, every country page EXCEPT the USA and Canada opened. The Art of the Horus Heresy book I wanted sold out in about 20 minutes.
Thankfully I found an FLGS who was getting some and I preordered it through them.
Just curious. Whats the price difference between the regular and special edition?
0:40-1:02 GW literally being the imperium reacting slowly and with the tiniest of steps forward...
For me the easiest solution for them is during the announcement of a new box, model, book etc is open a 2 week register your interest period. You put down a deposit (some % of the final cost) and then after that they have however many weeks / months to scale up or down their manufacturing estimates to meet demand so that when the preorder or release window comes around you can pickup your box by paying the final fee if you registered or run the current gauntlet for preorders. No undue costs or storage worries for them and likely fewer disappointed customers.
Yeah that is what other industries commonly refer to as a "preorder." GW just sells a limited stock and call it a preorder. They are clowns. Its not pre-anything. If you sell out it wasn't a presale WAS IT GW? You just sold an existing number. If it were a presale theyd do exactly as you described. They do not. I hate them and their stupid faces so damn much.
In the grimdark present of the 3rd Millennium, there is only product shortages.
I got back into the hobby 6 months ago, and I do a weekly hobby stream on Twitch, and I often get asked where to start with the hobby. I feel like I need to tell them 'don't get hyped or expect availability on any new products'.
A wild capac
I wanted the Lions collectors book, but login in 30 seconds after the reserves went live and was too late. Checked eBay and one user had sold 15 out of 16 for over 300 USD. Couldn't even get a hard copy. Hope GW gets better.
And today the website is broken. I can’t log in and place any orders.
small chaos knights have been sold out for over a year in US
Warhammer+ should just provide you with digital rules for game systems, that would immediately solve the main problem you pointed out with core rule books not being available. Locking rules behind a physical book of which there are limited number of is just incredibly short sighted for a company that trades globally
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Here faster than the Khan himself
Classy like the scars themselves
Fun thing about wrhammer in movies. Same person can play multiple spacemarines, as by lore spacemarines tends to have same apearane because of how geneseed shape their bodies most of them(or even all of them) all somehow resemble their genefather. Especially if their gene-seed comes directly from Prymark and so contains most dominant genes. So potentially if Genry Cavil decide to play someone from Alpha Legion he absically can play ANY alpha legioner including Alpharius an Omegon.
Appreciate massively how even keeled your general approach is in this video. I tried getting the RE4 collectible edition but couldn't due to scalpers, in the moment i went mad over it until i realied it sucked but if that was the worse thing going on for me in that moment it can't be all bad. Well thought out and put together Luetin!
Limited releases need to end. There's no reason to make limited editions unless there's a genuine shortage of materials. There's no shortage of leather that can be bound to a book, anyone that wants one of these should be able to get them and that'd solve the scalper problem since good luck scalping a regularly sold product, instead of a "limited" edition. Just have it cost $90 instead of the normal $25 for a book price, and that'll limit the number of people that buy it, really. Then they get more money too, which is what corporations love the most.
A cynical person might think that some individuals at Games Workshop are personally invested in the scalping market.
Luetin, when you coming over the the Battletech dark side? We got warcrimes and good times. The Chancellor will welcome all willing to fight for the glory of the Confederation.
Battletech looks like the light side.
So it seems the GW, in addition to adding the bot queue thing for the DW assault box, they have supposedly 'recovered; around 500 copies of the book from the scalpers, people with multiple orders have had every extra order above 1 cancelled. So whilst it has taken them a long long while they have at least seemingly started taking more action. Those books will supposedly go on re-sale at some point.
I feel like that’s a little too low, what if you’re buying one for yourself and a couple for gifts? I think 5 should be the limit
22:40 I really would love to get some stories set in the dark age of technology. I want this the most because it will give you more fodder for dark age of technology, Men of Iron and STC videos and those were some of my favorite videos of yours since you collected so many little snippets of what we had seen or knew.
In the grim darkness of future there are only scalpers!
The queue system is indeed extremely irritating, but it’s better than nothing. I wholeheartedly believe in the concept of first come, first served, and though the way their queue works doesn’t do that, being random, I believe it’s better than nothing.
The new site needs work though. I can’t sign in, which was an issue when I preordered the Deathwing box. Even after, I still can’t sign in.
Annoyingly, I did say about a week ago they should have put a Captcha system in place in regards to TEATD.3, and in typical GW fashion, they do just that… in the wrong spot. Putting it in front is nice to weed out bots but I’ve never seen an online shop that doesn’t have a Captcha system for checkout, especially for high demand items.
*And Hot Damn with the clickbait this time!*
First come, first served is how we got the scalper problem to begin with.
I found out the measures of this by the fact that Lion El Johnson is online only. I always wondered why I never saw him on shelves, and why he was never resold locally and it’s because you have to buy him on the website direct.
Age of Apostacy would be an amazing book series!
Woot a new Luetin video!
At a minimum the leather bound books need to be available (unsigned) as made to order for the entire pre-order period. It would make collecting a viable proposition.
And perhaps use the flesh of the scalpers as the leather to bind the books in. Get a little grimdark, send a message, and help point out the heretics to the Inquisition, all at once. 🥲
I've started reading warhammer 40k semi-recently, after being introduced to the lore on this channel several years ago, starting mainly with the non-space marine material (eisenhorn, ravenor, gaunt ghosts, ciaphas cain, twice-dead king) and I would have loved to buy those books as paperback or hardback at home. Unfortunately, for a majority of those, only the first omnibus is available. After that you have to pay 200$ for second hand, which is a non-starter. I still read it all via e-books, but its a shame. I wish GW would delegate to a more competent publisher.
I was really surprised to successfully order The End & The Death Volume II direct from Black Library the day after it was released, and that I got it two days later. I was yet more surprised to find out I could successfully pre order volume III from Amazon. I expected both of these books to be impossible to get my hands on. Also got Son of the Forest from Amazon this week :D
The markup on these pieces of plastic that it makes perfect sense to me to use the Nintendo model for creating customer demand for limited supply.
Even if the God-Emperor dies in this physical world,, he will become truly Divine and even more proficiently defend us from the demons of chaos.
Or hes part of the chaos
@@Acolyte_of_CthulhuYou HERETIC! *BLAM*
@@Acolyte_of_Cthulhu Have faith brother. The Emperor is our divine rock. Even for someone such as you, who mistakes the spiritual in general for the chaos that inhabits it, He stands strong. He protects. You must only believe in His divine power and reciprocate His care and love.
If I had any patience I’d scan rule books and let people download them as PDF. I mean if that’s what’s stopping people from getting into it sometimes why not make it available online to download for newbies. Eventually miniatures will be scanned and pirated for people to download and 3d print themselves outside of GW control or sight. Artificial scarcity is never a good long term strategy unless you don’t care about new people starting and half hearted people quitting and just finding cheap or easy ways to do the thing they can’t do legitimately
Personally have tried to get hold of even 1 copy of the Ltd Edition books and never managed to. Its cool they have those editions, for me though the look of the binding was the whole reason I wanted them. Best way to solve it is to remove "limited edition" versions, but still allow for the purchase of those books with that binding option (just less the author signature and numbered edition page). The models are a whole different issue, and as a 40k Chaos player, the "year of chaos" was pretty underwhelming as it was impossible to get anything. I was fortunate my local store saved the Chaos Knights Box Set for me, but aside from that didnt manage to get hold of many for a long long time.
How do we know for certain that some of the scalpers definitely aren't GW agents?
Many companies can and do outsource commercial operations and shenanigans to 3rd parties as part of a holistic market approach stratagem.
That would be something GW could talk about in order to reassure their customers.
However, that said, whether or not the scalpers are major shareholders, who must be obeyed, remains a private matter, and nobody else's business, mind you...
Faster than an eldar
I have all but the Solar War and First Wall. I did buy the Lost and the Damned on eBay, but otherwise I’ve been very, VERY lucky. I’ve read Saturnine and Warhawk copies (because they are the best of the lot and I normally do the audio version), but otherwise they just sit on my bookshelf like trophies next to my complete forge world Horus Heresy books which I do read weekly.
The preorder for the cancelled Volume 3 limited editions today was even worse than the first release. Sat in the “paused” queue for 2 hours before getting a message that it had sold out. I don’t understand why they don’t just announce a timed second printing of the three books. Give people a week to order unsigned second editions and whatever the final number is that’s the edition size. Other publishers have done it like this, everyone is happy, scalpers don’t benefit. This isn’t hard.
I enjoy just the lore however i sympathize with you about how they screw their biggest fans over.
It's beyond frustrating and its only getting worse!
The second I saw the thumbnail, I knew what it was going to be about 😅.
All this talk of ordering is nice. I can’t even sign into my account to see if items I have already ordered are on their way. & every time I order anything, as soon as I try to sign in, it zeros out my basket. The website is still a disaster area of glitches.
Thanks, as always, Luetin for your levelheaded commentary. I think the point that 10ed and Indomitous were "successful" shows there's some degree of artificial scarcity that GW willfully creates. Why, I don't know unless they figure it costs too much and they sell everything they produce so they don't care.
Hasbro paid attention to the UA-cam creators once those creators started a movement that affected the bottom line. Look up what Hasbro did with the OGL early in 2023 and the subsequent layoffs in December.
loved this type of format. it is really nice to have the main vein content and this industry content still as well. thanks Lue, big up
They could do a made to order but will only fulfil if x number of orders are reached - solves the scale issue.