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- From: TUK865@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Stephen Gill)
- Subject: Re: Good old White Dwarf & new GW (was: Re: T$R Newest "Product")
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 11:04:24 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.042352.3381@schbbs.mot.com>
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- From: philipd@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Philip Dutre)
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- >I knew that, but never made the link between the games that were covered by
- >WD and the games that were sold by GW stores. Indeed, if this were the case,
- >you can hardly call "the old Dwarf" an independent magazine.
-
- But at the time WD was publishing for ALL the popular games including a
- few they hadn't got the rights to (FGU games for example) and they also
- had no links to the games at all outside of the UK. I was in Africa a lot
- of the time and was just as likely to buy from the US as the UK.
-
-
- >BTW, I wonder what is going to happen to GW during the coming years. I know
- >a LOT of people who were once Warhammer-addicts (including myself), but are
- >turning away from GW en masse because they don't longer like the "improved"
- >games such as WH40K, WFB or Space Marine. It seems GW is producing more
- >and more stuff that should attract younger players (e.g. steam tanks, noise
- >marines, childish magic etc...). And if so, where are all those younger
- >players going to get the money to buy a lot of expensive miniatures?
-
- From their folks. If you go into any Games Workshop in the UK nowadays
- the vast majority, ninety percent plus, of the customers are under 16s
- dragging their parents, with wallets, around.
-
- My favorite range of figures ever, Dark Future - lovely for any Cyber
- game - has been stopped by Citadel because the big box with a couple of
- bits of plastic in wasn't selling well enough and the game didn't hit
- their target demographics correctly. This worries me, the big marketing
- words are taking over the hobby fast.
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- Steve Gill, internet TUK865@maccvm.corp.mot.com
- MOTOROLA LMPS, European fin. MIS, Camberley Surrey UK
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