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Clockpunk wrote:

GW *knkw* the demand is there, and they've had a long time to prep for these releases - why half-ass it with artificial stock limitations they way they have (and continue to do so)?

Maybe they just don't want to see it outsell the two core ranges??

That's twice now it's been reported they were caught unprepared by Blood Bowls popularity with a fair gap in between.
I wonder if it's ever occurred to them to use pre order as it's actually intended, to gauge interest before manufacture. Oh, of course, secrecy.

The fact the additional Dwarf stuff sold old almost immediately on the UK site lends itself more to a "GW didn't mean to put it up this week".

Just that not once have I come back from town to check the new releases and see them No Longer Available. Just seems more likely a glitch or mistake.

What time did it go live on the web store for everyone else?

Joyboozer wrote:
That's twice now it's been reported they were caught unprepared by Blood Bowls popularity with a fair gap in between.
I wonder if it's ever occurred to them to use pre order as it's actually intended, to gauge interest before manufacture. Oh, of course, secrecy.

It's not even secrecy - we've seen the Dwarfs months ago.

Whatever the reason is, it's silly.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
What time did it go live on the web store for everyone else?

10 oclock local times. eBay pirates must of snatched them all up with in 45 seconds.

Shocking.. still not sure why GW doesn't do a one per customer limit for at least the first 24hrs on stuff like this.

Woke up at 10.05am.. by the time I was at the PC, dice gone, put cards, pitch and team in my basket.. went to checkout .. pitch gone at 10,26.. sadface.

Ah well got the team and cards.. and I'll probably pay stupid money for the dice on ebay next week.

Do GW manufacture their own dice or is it contracted out? I was lucky to get the Skaven BB dice, but was slightly miffed these were sold out when I logged in at 10.04 :(

Yarr!!! Ebay Pirate here!! YaaaRRRRrrR!!!

Well if it goes live at 10:00 I'll be at my grandfathers funeral, so by the time that's over I'm sure they'll be up on ebay . Well regular dice for me.

Joyboozer wrote:
That's twice now it's been reported they were caught unprepared by Blood Bowls popularity with a fair gap in between.
I wonder if it's ever occurred to them to use pre order as it's actually intended, to gauge interest before manufacture. Oh, of course, secrecy.

Do you think a pre order with a cut off two to three months before release would be as popular?

1005 US and not up yet. Is it not east coast timezone for US realease?

chances are the 1st couple of scalpers bought a couple of 100 sets each and poof gone in 60secs, GW don't give a rats ass who or why people buy them as long as they get the cash.

Honestly with BB becoming a scalplers paradise between GW ltd runs,FW event and WHW exclusives it is taking some of the fun out of it.

GW just need to...

1. Have purchasing limits for these things. You see ebayers selling 30+ of a limit item and it's just a kick in the balls.

2. Do multiple runs of items of things that sell out.

I totally understand why GW do limited runs, especially of stuff they outsource like dice and the card pitches. They don't want stock sitting on the shelves if it doesn't sell and don't want to over invest.

But why the feth don't they just do a 2nd run and if that sells out, do a 3rd run.

EDIT: Actually it looks like GW are listening somewhat, the Dwarf dice are currently listed as 1 per customer. Is that a new update or did they swap it to 1 per customer after scalpers bought them all?

The snow pitch had a second run and as far as I'm aware although it says sold out on them. There was not a big point of it being made a limited edition

So I'm sure there will be more runs.

I hope quite a few more tbh. To really piss off the ebay sellers.

Ragweek wrote:
I hope quite a few more tbh. To really piss off the ebay sellers.

If they just keep doing repeat runs of stuff they'll eventually kill off ebay scalpers because the scalpers won't be able to guess what to buy and what not to buy, which I'm totally fine with, more than happy to throw some salt on the leeches and make them lose some money

GW sent out e mails saying the boards and DICE will be back.in production as they know folk were annoyed by todays pre orders. So scalpers that bought loads to sell on for profit hahahaha morons

 Motograter wrote:
GW sent out e mails saying the boards and DICE will be back.in production as they know folk were annoyed by todays pre orders. So scalpers that bought loads to sell on for profit hahahaha morons

Nice. It'd be awesome if they did another batch of the Skaven dice but that's probably too much to ask.

Dice and pitch are limited 1 per order on the US webstore. Could get more in package deals.

 Motograter wrote:
GW sent out e mails saying the boards and DICE will be back.in production as they know folk were annoyed by todays pre orders. So scalpers that bought loads to sell on for profit hahahaha morons

Topkek. That just improved my day.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Motograter wrote:
GW sent out e mails saying the boards and DICE will be back.in production as they know folk were annoyed by todays pre orders. So scalpers that bought loads to sell on for profit hahahaha morons

Nice. It'd be awesome if they did another batch of the Skaven dice but that's probably too much to ask.

If they're going to put one set of sold-out-super-quickly dice into production again they may as well put the other sold-out-super-quickly dice out there as well.

That's the problem... fellow gamers looking to make a buck. I added the all in package and saw that it would allow a person to also add a skaven pitch board too. This would give a person two sets.

I did not as I don't need two sets, wasn't buying a gift, and thought of my fellow gamers around the world. However, I'm sure others did so to make money off their fellow gamers.

Last time gw released more pitch sets, skaven sets, etc within the next week. GW is just far more careful about stock on hand, as companies lose when they sit on stock for a long time. I do agree though, by this time I'd assume they would know how popular bb is!

A good thing to note - the only real limited items so far were the forgeworld referees and the faction dice (they are listed as supplies last too). All other items are not and will be released again. Someone said earlier that the winter pitch should be hitting again in April. I'm not sure about that timeframe, but we should see it again, so I wouldn't pay $125 for it on ebay.

 Arbitrator wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Motograter wrote:
GW sent out e mails saying the boards and DICE will be back.in production as they know folk were annoyed by todays pre orders. So scalpers that bought loads to sell on for profit hahahaha morons

Nice. It'd be awesome if they did another batch of the Skaven dice but that's probably too much to ask.

If they're going to put one set of sold-out-super-quickly dice into production again they may as well put the other sold-out-super-quickly dice out there as well.

I'm sure it's not hard, but that doesn't mean they'll do it

Also all this stuff we're talking about (dice and pitches) aren't produced in house. Which is why I can understand doing small batches, they aren't "putting them into production", they are going to an external company and ordering another set of 1000 or whatever they order.

But they should just keep doing those small batches until people stop buying them.

The new Savage Orc and Empire Nobility teams sound intriguing

Vorian wrote:
The new Savage Orc and Empire Nobility teams sound intriguing

Where was this heard?

Vorian wrote:
The new Savage Orc and Empire Nobility teams sound intriguing

Oh?!?

Vorian wrote:
The new Savage Orc and Empire Nobility teams sound intriguing

Source?

They are on the app, and they seem pretty op.

You can have four bodyguards and they start with block and guard !

Awesome! Do you know what positionals there are for the Savage Orcs?

The same as normal orcs, but all have frenzy, apart from the black orcs or brutes as they are named.

... Oh... :-/ they could have done something a little more special there - offered stats for a special squig beast or somesuch! My iPad won't run the app - is there anything special for the human nobility team?