Why is 40k so expensive?

>>53005261
Because capitalism is a thing, and people will pay that much for it.

It's not, compared to many other hobbies

Because people are keep buying expensive plastic.

>>53005280
Can confirm. Used to keep up with Magic. I quit because it got too expensive. Now I exclusively play 40k and have more disposable income then I know what to do with.

>>53005261
It's not if you have a decent job.

What is "expensive" is relative.

Go out to a bar sometime. I dropped $22.00 on a glass of mead, a glass of wine and a bottle of soda water. I literally pissed money away.

$40.00 for a box of Space Marines that will take me many hours, if not days to assemble and paint is actually quite low cost per hour of entertainment.

>>53005268
>>53005304
this
GW could probably abandon shit like selling some miniatures (Sternguard) in overpriced boxes, but people are OK with the current prices so there is no need to do that

>>53005261
Keep it in your fucking containment thread.

It's pretty cheap compared to other hobbies.

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Greetings, Plebians. Hope you got the $1600 for me.

>>53005615
I love these models, but I can only imagine the shame and deep embarrassment that it would generate to have to carry this from your car into your local gaming hall as you walk past the normies.

Then you're inside and you have to heave it up and ontop the gaming table, everyone will say it looks awesome and cool but deep down you know they're just thinking it looks like dogshit 3 feet above the rest of the table top game.

Bring back epic 40k!

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>>53005615
>>53006527
>How embarassing

>>53006527
I remember 3 of theese fuckers fighting eachother. The whole army looks like the scenery next to them

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>>53005261
Because it's a luxury commodity. Most games are.

>>53006527
>Bring back epic 40k!

40k won't bring back Epik because then the hobby would be reasonably priced.

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>>53005261
No game is expensive if you play against people with the same budget as yours. You can play Kill Team, SW:A or 500-1000 pts games and it still the 40k tho

>>53006685
>play with quarters
>each squad is still $12.50 because you're running conscripts

Such is life in the Guard.

>>53005261
Labor and expertise. Sculpting ain't easy, and neither is mold making and casting on such a large scale.

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>>53006624
>that doujin
Pls no

>>53006685
Kill team is such a poor excuse for the overpriced models in 40k.

If 40k played like infinity, the prices would be competitive. But it doesn't, 40k is a 15mm game stuck in a 28mm body, so again, massively overpriced.

>>53006791
>Kill team is such a poor excuse for the overpriced models in 40k
Well, you can buy a Start Collecting + Armoured Assault + one or two HQs and voilà - you have enough minis for all game formats I have mentioned above and it's not this expensive if you are not buying on a gw site

>>53005261
Because it's the price the market will bear.

>>53006849
>it's not this expensive if you are not buying on a gw site

Still overpriced.

>>53006918
Define overpriced.

>>53006782
Has he made anymore stuff lately? His updates seemed to have dropped completely

>>53005261
Compare the prices to literally any other hobby where you can't just get the necessities for free, and you will find that the prices are actually pretty comparable.

>>53005261
To keep the niggers away from it...

>>53007698
Hasn't worked for Yugioh.

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Its already said, but yeah, it costs that much because people pay that much. If people weren't willing to pay that much, it would not cost as much. If you are not willing to pay that much, don't buy it. That is a wise choice: you can have as much or more fun with cheaper minis. There's nothing noble about spending thousands of dollars on toys, no matter how much of a luxury item it is.

>>53005280
This is the dumbest argument that anyone ever came up with. I'm not even arguing that Geedubs is overly expensive, but saying "It's not expensive compared to other hobbies" is fucking retarded.
It's less expensive than yachting or buying mint copies of Detective Comics and shoving them up your ass. It's also a shitton more expensive than many other hobbies, up to and including other wargames with an equal number of 28mm miniatures on the table.

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>>53007865
>There's nothing noble about spending thousands of dollars on toys, no matter how much of a luxury item it is.
>my riced Civic is just as good as an actual performance car, b-baka!

Let me get this straight.
It is literally impossible to play WH without figurines?
It's not like DnD where only autismos use figurines because they have no imagination/are ridiculously invested in a made up character.
This game actually requires you buy figurines to represent your make-believe army.
Question: are you all fucking retarded?

>>53006883

This. I got out of 40k ten years ago and only pop into threads like this every once in a while to see how things are going.

If you're still buying, then your preferences as revealed by your behavior are different from what you think they are.

>>53005261
That girl going going to get slammed and stomped by that cow.

Never, ever, get down to eye level on a cow. You will lose, even if fighting wasn't your intent

>>53005261
it's as expensive as you want to make it. most people take it was expensive because they want to build fuckhuge armies 10k+ points or buy an entire army in one go for some reason. if you're only playing normally and buy steadily, it's perfectly affordable.

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>>53007998
What kind of meta-bait is this?

>>53007998
Ok I have just read about this on wiki.
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous, retarded, most neckbeard game ever.
Don't get me wrong, I love the WH universe and videogames but the tabletop itself is... just wow guys.

Tell me truthfully, objectively speaking, WH players are THE most neckbearded group in your gameshop, am I right?

>>53005261
Because GW/Citadel believe they are the Cadillac of game miniatures companies. Not everyone can afford to drive a Cadillac and not everyone will. They believe they have the qualities and reputation to justify this approach.

>>53006581
You mean Apocalypse games aren't scenery for the Super Heavies and Titans to fight in?

>>53005261
Why is eating out expensive? Why are houses with more bedrooms expensive? Why are designer clothes expensive? Why is fuel expensive? Why is organic food expensive?

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>>53006782
Yeah, industrial-scale farming gets nasty, free range is so much better.

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>>53006685
>>53008053
This.

>>53008111
>Why is fuel expensive?
I hope you're not from the States, you guys have cheapest fuel among the countries that can eat bacon.

>>53008039
that's a bull you tard.

>>53008255
Normal cows will also do the same. Especially if you're on a range of a larger rance, like say the 6666 Ranch (yes, its a real ranch) and you're a stranger.

>>53006624
Hmm, what's thi-
>ShindoL
NOPE.

>>53008295
i meant in the picture. that's a bull, you know, horns.

>>53008313
Cows grow horns to. Its just tha many popular breeds, such as Angus and Jersey, are Polled, or bread for reduced horn growth. Further horn clipping away horns on cows when they're a month old is also a common practice that prevents growth at older ages. However without either Polling or clipping, a cow will naturally grow horns just like a bull.

So, until I see either a scrotum or an vagina, I'm not going to assume whether its a male or female

>>53005261
I find it to be cheap by entertainment standards. A night out of drinking will set me back the same amount of what ill spend on plastic crack that will last me a month or two. Once you get a decent range or paints it's pretty cheap if you're not an impulse buyer of the newest and best models. Why hobbies are so expensive in general is capitalism.

>>53005268
fpbp

Isn't 40k more of a 'fucking loads of money up front but then you don't need to spend much else if anything' game?

>>53008448
forgive me for assuming cow gender. i have been thouroughly educated on cow business.

>>53008111
>Why is eating out expensive?
Because you're not supposed to do it to prostitutes.

>>53008503
again, only if you treat it that way. if you're starting there's no reason why you would need more than, as an example, a box of marines, a couple of brushes a pot of glue and four or five paints. that's about £50 give or take. and if you buy direct.

>>53008518
>He doesn't like guessing what prepaid VD hes getting by taste
Fucking pleb

>>53005261
Because morons keep buying it.
Simple supply and demand. Wish I could have bought stock in GW long ago, then I would be telling you how COOL it is and totally worth it.
Granted, most purchasers I have met live with their parent's and don't date girls.
Girls are expensive.

>>53009236
pathetic tier bait. see me after class.

>>53005261
Because you don't buy Chinese recasts.

>>53005261
>video gaming as a hobby
>monitor $300
>gaming pc $1000
>video game $80

playtime about 20 hours per game, some multiplayer games can clock thousands of hours, most games are played for about a month

>gw
>rulebooks $150
>army $500-$600

playtime about 2 hours per game, some models will be used for your entire life, most armies will be used for about five years


yeah fuck gw's prices

>>53005261
I hope she gets fucked by that cow

>>53009489
i wish it was a bull and also fucking her

>>53008255
bulls have bigger horns and wider skulls

it's a cow

>>53005261
>competitive RC car racing
>fibreglass shell $2000
>engine $500
>nitros $100

>oops I went too fast around the turn
>my car flipped and the shell exploded
>time to buy another shell

>>53009521
You have no imagination. And are clearly a cuck fetishist.

>which synagogue is your local, but which do you attend?

>>53005316
Hahaha

>I got jewed by a shitty bar
>therefore waste more money

I hope your job isn't in business.

>>53009558
>overlapping a dudebro """sport""" with the pretension of model painting as an """art"""

The only commonality is the stupidity of it.
Savvy connoisseurs are more interested in the fine art of investing in debt.

>>53005261
"Everything is worth what its buyer is willing to pay for it"

>>53009558
Scrubs gonna nub.

>not casting for self
And guess what, same goes for dollies!

>>53009591

He did get jewed a little but the point is fair. You can EASILY spend as much on a night out as on a box of models, and you'll probably get more hours out of assembling, painting and playing the models than having dinner/drinks out.

>>53009669
Yes, but I could also buy a box of models from a company that hasn't sold out, that is trying to actually make a good and fun game rather than filling books with grimdark word salad generated by a committee and lowest-bidder commission art.

>>53005261
the kikes in charge want their shekels

>>53007961
If the civic wins the race it wins the race.
>what is performance? For treefiddy.

>>53008095
What is mtg?

>>53009861
Do you know what ricing even is? It's completely unrelated to performance.

>>53009485
>buying videogames except on -80% steam sales

SHIGGERY DIGGERY DOO GOOD CHAP

>>53006558
>shitty home-made one made from toilet paper rolls and cardboard boxes

fucking shit, if somebody put that on the table in my friend's gaming store he'd throw that shit out of the window.

>b-b-but it t-took me a-an hour to make it!!!

He doesn't care, if your models are made from cardboard and toilet paper he'll throw it out.

>>53005261
Because you don't like them enought?

"Expensive" is a rather subjective matter in this hobby m8. If you like it, it'll be worth it. If not, it'll never worth your time.

Simple as that.

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>>53005261
>xDDD le quirky girl so funneh and lolrandom ecksdee ecksdee ecksdee

>>53010069
I like enough to pay reasonable money for it.

I don't like it enough to pay GW's prices for it.

>>53010069
>If you like it, it'll be worth it. If not, it'll never worth your time
Yeah, but you know - some people like 40k and eating both

>>53009947
Nope.
I assumed it was associated with performance.
Since performance was mentioned in the same sentence.
And in my country affordable Japanese automobiles combined with aftermarket performance parts is quite a thing. Pretty sure nobody here makes a show car that doesn't also have equivalent performance enhancement.

Excuse my limited world view which has been tainted by localised attitudes to automobiles.

>going fast in a straight line over an absurdly short distance is an achievement
Anything slower than 10s quarter is not noteworthy, unless you are pedalling.

>>53010166
Ricing is basically weeaboo-fying a car. Take a shitty, beat-up Civic, stick a big exhaust on it so it sounds '''fast''', chuck on some shitty, daggy body kits, a spoiler that is way too large, and then rev it to the red line while at a stop light.

Then proceed to get absolutely smoked by someone who put money into performance mods rather than aesthetic mods.

>>53010246
Ha.

Sounds dumb.

Should be cheap to do I guess.
Presumably weabs and white trash (who aren't caught up in "patriotism") are the major culprits?

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>>53007961

The thing is, brother, that you can actually get a better car if you pay a higher price. With plastic army men? Not even close.

A car is a large, complicated machine. It has moving parts, and it is used for real work. A GW miniature is an inert piece of plastic. If you shop for games like you shop for cars, you are not going to get better games. You are going to blow money on stupidity.

>>53010387
Pretty much.

While they're mostly looked down upon in the car communities, I can't really fault them. It's their cars, and they can do what they like to them. I personally don't go for triple-stack wing spoilers and RGB-neon underglow, but if that's someone's thing, and they like it, and like the result they get, then whatever.

There are a ton of videos on YouTube, though, of people in like legit American Muscle cars, or even just things like stock-looking Supras, absolute destroying four-cylinder Wapanese can-rattlers. Dudebros pull up next to the driver, rev a few times, and when the light goes green, they just crawl forward.

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>>53005280
said by every community collage retard that actually hangs out at GW stores.

Live long, shill on.

>>53010428
Actually it is. Infinity basic troops run about $5/miniature to GW's $2/miniature. Ratios change a bit as we move into Commanders/HQs, mind.

Small wonder the workmanship is much better.

What's a scam are things like the CBT minis and the official D&D minis (lel). Those are about 3.75/per for godawful quality in all aspects.

>if you shop for games like you shop for cars, you are not going to get better games
This is vague. We're talking about miniatures, right? Not rules?

As for historical models versus proprietary ones, that's from the thin plastic used because they're meant for display, not wargaming and/or customizing. Also because they have direct model-to-model competition.

Mead and wine guy here, I'm a lawyer. You also have no idea what Wine I was drinking. If you're worried about costs, you probably shouldn't go to bars in the first place.

>>53006640
Adeptus titanicus is next year. 8mm supposedly instead of 6 though

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>>53010881
>We're talking about miniatures, right? Not rules?
Yes, of course. Rules can be pirated, and are therefore free.

The workmanship of a miniature is like the workmanship of a carefully-balanced stack of rocks. Sure, some people stack rocks better than others, yet in the end, you have to ask: why are we spending so much time and effort on piling rocks?

What I mean is, 40k miniatures are for gaming, ja? They don't make for a great display piece, what with their ugly "heroic scale" style. But when it comes to playing, you can do without. Every dollar you spend on plastic soldiers is a dollar not spent on another thing, something that makes more difference in your life than the detail on your army men.

>>53010911
>Le expensive wine maymay

Job on that one sir

Considering the position of the decimal in your costing. You and your fine lady friend were drinking pure swill. Pigs' swill at that.

>mead
K to the muthafuckin eeee Kay

>>53005280
A helicopter isn't expensive compared to a nuclear missile, so I guess helicopters are super cheap!

>>53009591
>this guy drinks bud light

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>>53005261
Only the finest Fabergé pickaxes are capable of extracting plastic from the Nepalese plastic mines. And so the costs are passed onto you the consumer.
Sure we could use substandard plastic rendered from whale fat, but when you demand quality like ours only the best will do.

>>53010881
>Infinity basic troops run about $5/miniature to GW's $2/miniature
Comparing high detail metal cast mini's to plastics. 1st off your prices are way fucking off. $2/mini, no fucking way is that the norm. The norm is $3.50-4 for just grunts, and GW happily slaps a premium on anything above that matches Infinities prices.

>workmanship of a miniature is like the workmanship of a carefully-balanced stack of rocks...What I mean is, 40k miniatures are for gaming, ja?

No, fuck no, hell fucking no, this isn't chess or checkers. This is "miniature" wargaming. People don't buy into it because the game is so great, they buy into it because they can build their own fucking army. GW's whole business relies on them making cool ass miniatures, that you'll want to buy. Otherwise why the fuck aren't we playing with green army man blobs. Why the fuck would GW upgrade mini's from 1st-2nd edition era if not for cooler, better looking mini's that people want to build and play?

>>53011047
Dude mead is fucking delicious and gets you buzzing really quickly.
Good enough for the Vikings.

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Because GW has fundies who will pay that much to play a game, so they make it that expensive. Is this a trick question?

>>53007998
Because of true line of sight and anyone you play demanding them, yes. Lots of other games can be played without figures and with proxying. It isn't uncommon to see people doing that with Warmachine by simply putting down an appropriately sized plastic circle and using that instead of a model. It can be done with many many other games as well.

>>53009987
That homemade one looks great?

>>53005280
It's really not. I feel like this board is inhabitated by poorfag NEETs and students sometimes. 40k is nothing compared to green or moorage fees.

Seriously, one day you guys will graduate and get a halfway decent salary and laugh that you ever thought 40k was expensive compared to your house's down payment.

>>53012558
>graduate
>get halfway decent salary
>get mortgage
>meet woman
>woman moves in
POOF all that salary is now gone and 5 terminators cost $50

>>53005280
It is, compared to every other miniatures game in existence.

The irony is that 40k isn't expensive to me but my career is so demanding that I rarely get time to paint or play.
Those who do have the time to paint and play probably don't make as much money as me and so 40k seems very expensive.

>>53007936
It's more expensive than other war games, but relatively cheap compared to other hobbies. My big hobbies are firearms, computers, fitness, 40k, and motorsport (current project is a 2jzge to gte swap on a 2003 Lexus is300. Total sleeper, just dynoed at 450 to the wheels last weekend). 40k is the cheapest hobby for me by far.

>>53009987
>my friend is a real bad ass!

You sound like a pussy.

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>>53005261
you gotta need the dough for that sexy sexy plastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEgte7TmEA

GW models are, bar none, the greatest miniatures in the world in terms of quality and general design. They are expensive yes but you will literally not find a better miniature maker than them.

>>53012558
wtf does your mortgage have to do with plastic crack?
>well I'm bleeding money just for this house, who the fuck cares how much i spend on other things
You telling us you never used coupons, never looked for a good deal
Did you not try to bargain down the price of that house you bought, what about your car? You've never checked the prices of the groceries your buying?
>haha fuck that I spent 50K on a civic, you poorfags that care about prices are the losers
Yea fucking right.

The whole "it's not the most expensive hobby" is such a lame cop out. Do you losers feel good about yourself? You think your all that because you just piss your disposable income away?

Its not about the amount of extra cash you have to burn, its about comparative value. And GW sells its shit hella high. GW sells plastic model kits, and not even amazing plastic model kits. They are comparable to Tamiya, Revell, Bandai, and whoever the fuck you want to include in there. The only difference is they have their IPs, so your spending $80 to build baby's first snaptight tank kits, except you still need glue.

>>53012996
> woman also doesn't work
The fuck is wrong with you son

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>bait thread about gw prices
>no mention of china recasters

tg thread game weak

>>53005261
On an time/money spent basis, Warhammer is one of the less expensive things you can do. Building and painting the figures themselves should be an enjoyable experience, along with playing. You get a lot more return on investment from building, painting, and playing with the figures than you do from say a $15 movie.

>>53010548
It's "College", Fuckwit.

>>53009537
Please prove it's a cow and not a heifer.

>>53011004

Change the scale to force all the vets to buy new or not play in toruneys... nice.

>>53009987

>if your models are made from cardboard and toilet paper he'll throw it out.

And be paying me. I had a contract with a friend who was going to buy that titan for $1,600 so that is its value and replacement cost.

pony up or get sued nigga!

Yeah its never a good idea to willfully destroy other peoples property.

i give you a 3/10 because i responded.

>>53015037
> woman also doesn't work
>The fuck is wrong with you son
He is from the US this is normal there

>>53005261
i think people need to look at it from a dollar/hour point of view.

11 ork boyz are $29. it would take you probably 30 minutes each to build with the sanding and drilling of barrels and what not.

That's 5.5 hours already. And then you paint them. I'm a slow painter I guess because even if I do the entire 11 in one go it would take me hours. Let's say 1 hour per model.

16.5 hours so $1.7 per hour before actually using them in games.

Hardly expensive.

>>53015037
>>53016774

Any job my wife could get would be fuck all take home pay after we payed for daycare.

I would buy into WH at the current price if the figures were already painted.
Right now, it's nothing more than theft.

All hail Heroscape

>>53012558
Not everyone loves in west, you know?

>>53005315
it depends on how you collect each. if you want to play competitive standard, yea you're gonna probably end up shelling out more than for warhammer over time due to cycling, but there are plenty of very competitive modern decks going for sub $400.

even one 40k army is going to cost you about as much at 1250 pts or so, even discounting books, dice, paint & supplies, and terrain.

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Speaking of expensive fucking models does anyone have contact for Alpharius? I have Z, Pill, CCoN etc, but this guy is hard to find.

Please don't just post it in the thread, I don't mind cryptic or just a nudge in the right direction.

>>53015146
give me your bootleg secrets

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>>53015146

>>53009618
how the fuck is RC car racing a dudebro sport?

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>>53007936
>with an equal number of 28mm miniatures on the table
You forgot to mention those miniatures are garbage compared to gw quality.

It's not massively expensive, it's just become way more expensive than other miniatures to the point where I lost interest in it.
You could build an entire army at 15 or 6mm for less than the absolute bare-bones of a playable warhammer army.
>>53006527
All warhammer games should be played at 15mm or smaller 2bh, 28mm is retarded for anything other than tiny skirmishes from which 40k has long since evolved.

>>53010148
>some people like 40k and eating both

And most of them has no problem with it. I've only payed 300$ per month and i don't se any problem with it. Especially if you have several option on how do you want it to play.

Seriously, this is a fucking hobby, not one of the primary needs in life. Nobody forcing you to buy anything anon.

>>53005316
>What is "expensive" is relative.
Yes, but not in the way you think.
It's relative to other similar products, not to your income, and many other wargames and mini brands are much cheaper and/or much higher quality than GW's stuff.
Similarly, 22$ for three drinks is expensive if you compare it to a lot of other bars (I hope those drinks were worth their price).

>>53016696
>anything in this post is real

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>>53005261
>Pic related

>>53017900
While I get your point, consider this:
>Less expensive
>More people buy
>Same amount of money or more earned

>>53006624
The fuck!
Why would you post any images from that doujinshi anon. Why?
>I'm a noob/tard/autist and want to k ow what the fuss about this image is about
No. No you really do not. Not unless you are as twisted as fuck.

>>53013707
Keep telling yourself that, shill
They were just around first and have the monopoly

>>53017962
Lowering prices can be a risky more because it can be perceived by long time buyers as cheapening their investments. It can also be perceived as selling a product of poor quality to new potential buyers.

Simply lowering prices will not necessarily lead to more sales. A better move is to offer deals such as the start collecting boxes.

>>53017962
um, well no not normally. The whole point of indifference charts is that you always trend toward the point of maximum indifference. The point where the lines interest should principally be the point where the supplied generates maximum profit (any more and they lose sales any less and they lose margin). Of course I'm sure that GW products aren't straight lines. They're probably funky curves like most luxury goods with high requirements for capital investment.

Price reductions (in so far as they every really happen) usually come about as result of flagging demand(usually due to innovation or competition) or technological improvements that allow an increase in supply. (i.e.mobile phones)

>>53008097
GW'S models are.shite. hell, baring the Mary sue marines the majority of the core choices are 15+ years old with sisters taking the ultimate Piss at 20 years old still in the original 1997 single piece monopose cast format.
Only gaydar, dark eldar, tau and space marines have had any real updates.

>>53010881
>gw charges $2 per figure and that is normal industrial pricing
More like £2.25 on a basic bod with any unit beyond the basic core choices easily coming in at £5.50 and above per bod. Characters can cost over £12 per figure and vehicles cost stupid amounts.
Corvus Belli charge £4 for a basic bod BUT they are amazing highly detailed metal casts, and you only need about ten models for a basic army.

TL;DR GW'S prices are Shit and they really over value the junk they are selling.

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Why don't you all stop being poor

>>53016874
Oh you have kid/s. That's enough to make anything expensive.

>>53018137
Economies of scale, my friend. You can't forget that it's much cheaper to build your a widget when it's the 100,000th then when it's the 2nd.

The more you build the less they cost as fixed cost are distributed across more product. This also lets you save money by placing larger orders from suppliers, providing you with leverage to negotiate better deals.

GW's cost for little plastic men are huge compared to the cost to produce little plastic men because they also eat cost for advertising, shipping, maintain brick-and-mortar stores and the development cost for producing a bunch of shitty rule-books.

>>53005615
I actually would have.
But im gonna spend it on a new computer.

>tfw pieces of plastic cost the same amount as a modern computer

>>53016874
>wife and kids
>a hobby

Pick one

>>53018262
>Economies of scale
Covered under funky curves, but yes I agree.
The point though is that you trend toward the point where the indifference lines intersect. Of-course nobody actually knows where that is because none of us possess perfect knowledge so companies have to make educated guesses based on sales and surveys, "big-data" etc...which can often lead to them missing key data points (hence why they were so surprised about plastic sister kits and SW:A selling so well)

>>53018304
This

>>53011038
I can't tell if you're asking why play buy models to play games at all, on TG, a Bolivian embroidery forum, or if you're asking why pay more for more attractive models.

The reason is satisfaction. A nice model can be painted well and looks cool on the table, which is part strategy game, part collaborative story telling and part show and tell for people who enjoy modelling.

Ugly fat girls have vaginas that operate on the same principles as attractive women, but don't require the effort to attain. That hasn't stopped most men from trying to attain a woman that satisfies their aesthetic notions of attractiveness.

The reason why people pay GW prices is part stupidity and part why kitbashing/converting is a thing- people want models that please them.

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>>53007865
>There's nothing noble about spending thousands of dollars on toys, no matter how much of a luxury item it is.
Spending money on toys is the most noble pursuit of all.

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>>53008306
mfw I like ShindoL's style, and a few of his comics, but four pages in it always gets turned up to 12, and I'm an 11 kind-of-guy.

>>53010548
How about you get a job and support yourself like an adult you dirty hippy.

>>53009485
>Not considering painting part of the hobby
Nigga what?

>>53019560
https://exhentai.org/g/722000/469462215d/
Happy ShindoL is best ShindoL

>>53019560
ShindoL is one thing and still manages to put in the right content from time to time.
Fatalpulse is just on another plane altogether.

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>>53005268
As far as miniatures go, they're not the outstanding pinnacle of aesthetics that people make them out to be. Least of ways, not to the point that they're worth what they're priced.

What allows GW to be able to gauge this badly is having the whole miniatures gaming hobby by the balls. Sure, you could play Infinity, or Warmahordes, or Battletech, or X-Wing... or whatever else your heart desires, but at this point in time, GW holds a near monopoly on the hobby and finding players is a cakewalk compared to other minis games, constantly getting new blood as old blood is cycled out.

That's what you're getting charged for, and until some new hotness comes along that completely flips the tables on GW, those are the prices they'll charge.

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>>53006972
not >>53006918
but having bought an infinity faction starter box with an extra couple of models on the side for what would be considered a "similar" game, it totaled to about 50 canuck bucks.

>>53010881
>Infinity basic troops run about $5/miniature to GW's $2/miniature.
More like 5-10 for GW. And ridiculous markups for a character. And a dozen miniatures is an entire Infinity army, it's barely a squad in 40k.

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>>53005261
Because a significant amount of people value GW's product at more than it is priced at, this is called the consumer surplus (the utility gained from purchasing a good), otherwise they wouldn't actually buy it. If a box of Tactical Marines is $40 and GW's customers value those Tactical Marines at at least $40 (those that value them at exactly $40 are indifferent between purchasing them or not), then those people will of course decide to purchase Tactical Marines for $40.

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>>53020710
>Being this retarded.

Infinity you get more bang for buck. You play the game with smaller armies, and your models don't look like dumpy potato men.

>>53020931
>Because a significant amount of people are autistic

Jesus christ people who support GW are so dumb.

>>53009485
>playtime about 20 hours per game
Nigger what shit games do you play

>>53020931
To clarify, all consumers that have their demand to the left of the equilibrium (where supply and demand meet) gain value if the price is at the equilibrium point. So currently there are enough people to the left of GW's current pricing that they are able to sell their goods at a level they are happy at.

However, this is really only looking at things from demand side and glosses over things from supply side.