If you check over the prices on the new Games Workshop release you are going to be blown away. GW keeps raising prices with no end in sight.
The Khorne Lord of Skulls is $ 160. A massive kit for sure. But the highest price ever for a Games Workshop new release, by a factor of almost 50% (The Wraith Knight at $ 115 didn't keep that record for long). I am sure the Chaos minions will buy these up, but it will be interesting to see how popular this kit is. The Necron Tesseract Vault is the same price. I think both these kits will find their places in big armies. But you won't see multiples like you did previously with Baneblades.
The Baneblade, originally released in 2007 at $ 90 (a record at that time, when Land Raiders were $ 50) is now up to $ 140. A 50% increase in 6 years. Certainly no justification in raw material prices or inflation. I have 3 Baneblades. I would be hard pressed to justify buying them now.
The Collectors and Gamer Editions are both priced at a hefty $ 250. It will be interesting to see what is in them. I bought a Gamer's edition of 6th. And I will probably get one of these. But seriously, I am happy I will get away under $ 400 for everything I need.
40K is pricing people out of the game. And they are going to War Machine. I hear it every day. Go to any game store and you will hear the same thing. And GW, despite their policy of no online storefronts, pushes local gamers to online discounters, because they simply cannot afford to pay full GW retail.
Look at your units and they have all gone up 50-100% in a matter of 5 years. And why? Well, GW is a public company and at the very least, needs to show profit growth every year. And maybe, this is all part of the rumored GW sale, setting GW up to be acquired.
And Apocalypse? Well last time many of us ramped up our armies because of Apoc. I built 80,000 points over the last 4 years just to play Apoc. Would I do that now?
Probably not. At this point, Forge World prices arent that out of hand.
Loken