Or they're just defending a business model that has served them so well over the years!!! This past week, even by Games Workshops standards has been a controversial one, first we get 'fine cast'...its fecking resin!!! No marketing speak please! Not that resin is a bad thing, I actually welcome it, but the bullshit marketing speak that came along with it I do mind. Secondly though, and here's the biggy Games Workshop have struck a blow for capitalists and free market thinkers everywhere by stopping European webstores like the Maelstrom, Wayland Games and others shipping outside of the EU. Restriction of trade, restriction of trade get out your Milton Freidman peeps!!! This has enraged our Antipodean friends in Australia and New Zealand as well as pissing off a sizeable chunk of Central and South America... way to go!
There has been an awful lot of gnashing of teeth and swearing over the last week or so at the injustice the Games Workshop has thrust upon the gaming world. I'm going to try and be more level headed (and hopefully use less swearing) in my appraisal of the situation because things are never really that straight forward in life. I am however going to have to declare some interests and state exactly where I'm coming from:
- I use Waylands Games, Maelstrom and Firestorm Games
- I'm not Games Workshops biggest fan at the moment, they've killed off Warhammer Fantasy off with the turd that is 8th edition
- I no longer play Games Workshops games by choice
- I used to work for them many moons ago and think the way they treat their staff is appalling
So as you can see I could be considered a hostile commentator and where I'm coming from you might expect me to be totally against what the Games Workshop has done... but you see I'm not, because its not that simple...
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