Thread: Petition for GW policies overhaul.

Thousands of concerned customers are sending Games Workshop a petition urging them to change their ways. Here's the details:


One gamer has put together a formal petition to get the message to Games Workshop - Please Change Your Ways!

The Petition's author is Evan "Gothmog" Valdyke who describes the project as follows:

"I did up a petition outlining a few core concerns the gaming community has with their business practices and how they should reflect upon them selves and how their strategy is not meeting customer desires or expectations."


The Petition (a summarized version)


Refocus your business model on the sale of a game and support of a gaming community vice the pure sale of collectible miniatures.


As competition from outside organizations grow and GW revenues and profits fall, your company seemingly continues to pursue a business model not in alignment with your customer base's desires and expectations.


1- Support gamers, conventions, and tournaments, primarily through well-developed rules and encouraging competitive play.


2- Reduce the number of "Direct exclusive models" and support the FLGS/independent retailers.


3- Competitively price your products.


4- Change your website to be hobby and gaming driven with a webstore option attached for support.


5- Conduct market research and increase player involvement.




Petition Timeline
Here are the milestones met by the petition:

Started: - October 22
100 signatures - October 23
2500 signatures - October 24
3000 signatures - October 26th

The petition stands currently at 6,861 supporters (at time of writing), with 1,249 beyond the 5000 goal.

https://www.change.org/p/games-works...ble-miniatures

if that link doesn't work...

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/...changeorg.html

I also don't see how the prices aren't competitive. Believe me I don't want war machine quality sculpts. I want GW quality sculpts. If I wanted ****ty cheap models then I'd play an ugly game.

Tyson you are aware that GW charges more on average for their models than most other companies right? While the sculpts are very nice the prices are a tad out of touch with market base.

Originally Posted by Geist

Tyson you are aware that GW charges more on average for their models than most other companies right? While the sculpts are very nice the prices are a tad out of touch with market base.

How about backing that statement up with some facts and don't include companies with crappy models.

Originally Posted by Geist

Tyson you are aware that GW charges more on average for their models than most other companies right? While the sculpts are very nice the prices are a tad out of touch with market base.

Yeah Porsche charges more too.


As for out of touch, yeah, I forget how much actual market research the Internet does re price points. Most of the Internet noise makers couldn't run for the border let alone run a company.

Originally Posted by Hogleg

Yeah Porsche charges more too.


As for out of touch, yeah, I forget how much actual market research the Internet does re price points. Most of the Internet noise makers couldn't run for the border let alone run a company.

GW price points are up there.. you just have to look at the black market. If the price was lower, the demand to buy Chinese knock offs would be lower. Now that is a pure egalitarian type view but there is still some truth to it.