LordoftheBrownRing wrote:
Michaelc wrote:
And for those people who don't live within reasonable distance of either a GW event or a GW store?
Horrible, horrible idea from the POV of marketing the game and GW making money by cutting off a large part of your potential market and making them bitter they can't get shiny new things.
Now if you wanted to make new models available weeks ahead of time at events before being released to the public then that would be reasonable.
No offense intended but youre absolutely incorrect.
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or [C]-make them website exclusives(not really exclusive at all)
...Option C gives it to everyone .
By going from A to B you exponentially increase the chance for profits. Same going to C.
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So in other words I'm "absolutely incorrect" for saying they'll make less money by only making a product available to a fraction of their market (either people who can attend events or can visit a GW store) than what they currently do now - make it available to everyone via the website...
...and your counter argument is doing what they currently do now (C) - make it available to everyone via the website will "exponentially increase profits" over event only models???
Confused at the point you're trying to make.
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I don't think a large portion of games workshop's Lord of the Rings profits come from people who aren't near their stores. Id bet on it.
Define "near".
I'd bet outside of the UK you'd be wrong. Out of ~30 regular players in our
group, 20 of them live at least an hour drive to the nearest GW. None of our local GWs still carry LotRs product.
You think it's not bad marketing to force people to drive a 1-2+ hour round trip out of their way just to pick up a single model, especially when the store doesn't carry anything else likely to tempt them to buy?
I'm confused? Why not just make it available on the web and allow people to shop at *their* convenience. As an added bonus they'll probably spend more money to get to the free shipping threshold. If you have something people want, why make it harder for them to get? You're not selling luxury cars...
Draugluin wrote:
I fail to see what's wrong with event only models. Did you miss that the event only models are likely to just be reposes? If you already have 3 Gandalfs, you know just how useless it is to have multiple posts of a single character.
And if you don't have 3 Gandalfs or the repose winds up being much better than the original(s) and you *want to give GW money for it* how is it in their interest to say, "nope, sorry, keep your money, we don't want to make more profit"?