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Offline FistusMaximus

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #45 on: May 02, 2013, 05:03:13 PM »
Turns out the Battle Barge had 25 stock, despite showing as NLA. That was the only one though...

weird.
this happened in germany too, not only with the battle barge, but also with some other ships, they showed NLA and came back just a few hours ago.

i wished they would have listed their correct stock numbers so i didn't have to pay 60 somewhat bucks to get my hands on a barge.  :-\
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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #46 on: May 02, 2013, 05:51:53 PM »
I wonder if we should all get together and have a Preservation thread of all combined fleets, 1 or 2 models to have in case more personal fleets are needed.
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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #47 on: May 02, 2013, 07:43:00 PM »
So far I have stuck to my decision years ago not to buy directly from GW but I must say it is hard to stick to when I have some spare cash at the moment, have always wanted an Imperial Fleet and have a 2k Chaos Fleet that could do with some more variation.

Also I guess Ebay will, or probably already has, started seeing prices rise for BFG stuff.

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #48 on: May 03, 2013, 12:42:44 PM »
it has already been mentioned in the TacCom thread about the issue:

what really bothers me (and a lot of others) the most about it all is that they didn't say anything, no warning, nothing. if they'd warned us a month before or so that things will be discontinued in a month and kept on producing for the mean time, it would have been a different deal, but just tring to let it die silently... (which is NOT going to happen, they can't be serious that they thought nobody will notice!)

i kinda get the feeling of being betrayed by GW.

really, from now on i'll call this whole incident "the SG heresy".
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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #49 on: May 03, 2013, 01:38:31 PM »
Much the same thing happened with the old metal daemon figures, slaanesh and khorne at the time.

I was told by a manager that they were being removed from the shops but would be avaliable from direct order, I've no reason to believe he was deliberately lying to me but suffice to say I bought a couple of blisters but wasn't too worried because I thought they would still be on sale.

Obviously this wasn't the case and they were pulled entirely to make way for the plastic figures which made me a bit sad, though I did later pick up a few second hand just because I liked the models.

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #50 on: May 03, 2013, 09:50:22 PM »
went to the GW store today to get some more ships...

result:
half of the things i wanted to order ran out in the time it took me to get to the store (i checked just before i left for availability)  >:(
missed my chance to get my hands on infidels and falchions....  :'(

and now the kinda even more sad part:

when i told the store guy (one-man-store) that SG was getting killed, he didn't know before.
when just then some other people walked in, he asked them if they know about it.
they all did.
all of them.

quote from the store guy:
"why the HELL does everbody know about that, but not ME?!?"

yeah. GW didn't even tell their employees what the deal is.

really, WTF?
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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #51 on: May 03, 2013, 10:22:12 PM »
They never told us when I worked there. We were as clueless as the regular guy, except learning right before something is going on the shelves.

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #52 on: May 04, 2013, 06:21:45 AM »
I went to GW today, and the guy who worked their also had no idea about it, and in fact told me that it may be part of the move away from pewter, and that GW wouldn't do that to people, as it's a douchey move. I am skeptical about that though.

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #53 on: May 04, 2013, 04:07:07 PM »
That story more fits in with my personal observation about GW and the employees:
The company I loved is really gone. Most of the employees are honestly good people and nice chaps. Too bad they work for douche-nozzels
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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #54 on: May 05, 2013, 02:13:16 AM »
While I was lamenting my inability to finish any of my fleets (some aren't even playably largeD: ) A thought occured to me. Now that GW isn't producing the models, what are the chances that a third party just makes the BFG ships now?

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #55 on: May 05, 2013, 04:31:51 AM »
I'm pretty sure people won't commercially market copies of the existing BFG ships.  GW still has copyright over their exact designs, so doing anything large-scale would pretty much be asking for a lawsuit.  That said, I suspect there's a pretty good chance that third parties might step up to the plate and try to provide non-infringing alternatives that still fit the theme and feel of various fleets.

I mean, small shops have been turning out alternative Blood Bowl models for years, and Mantic's pretty much remade that game in all but name.  Epic:  Armageddon would be tough, but with spare plastic infantry lying around it's pretty easy to proxy imperial, chaos, or ork vehicles with something like GHQ's model ranges.  As for BFG, between 3-D printing and the relative ease of creating rubber molds for resin casting, there's a pretty good chance that die-hard fans of BFG will try their hands at creating alternative ships of their own.  Heck, some have been doing this for years already.

The real question is whether GW will feel it's worth going after any of the small-scale alternative model producers now that they've killed the product line.  I figure Chapterhouse Studios has most of their attention at the moment, and the outcome of  that case will provide us with a pretty good idea of what's legally permissible in the States at least.
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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #56 on: May 05, 2013, 06:07:35 AM »
I'm under the impression that (as displayed by the natfka takedown) that GW must peruse infringement like that, or lose their rights to copyright and such. I'm wondering if they'll treat the models like the rules, I.e. Open source style, so people will be able to mess about with them without infringing on GW intellectual property.

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #57 on: May 05, 2013, 02:23:55 PM »
Not terribly likely, however, there's nothing against creating something in a similar style the same scale.  I'm working on it.  However, I may have to have a kickstarter to get a high grade 3-d priner and materials to get the ball rolling.
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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #58 on: May 05, 2013, 03:09:44 PM »
I'm under the impression that (as displayed by the natfka takedown) that GW must peruse infringement like that, or lose their rights to copyright and such. I'm wondering if they'll treat the models like the rules, I.e. Open source style, so people will be able to mess about with them without infringing on GW intellectual property.

You're thinking of Trademarks. There's no preservation requirement to defend copyright.

Also, rules themselves are outside copyright. You can't copy/paste the exact text but the  mechanics aren't covered.

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Re: No Longer Available on the US GW Website
« Reply #59 on: May 06, 2013, 03:24:58 AM »
well I saw this for all the Admech fleet stuff

 Availability:

This product is expected to despatch in two to three weeks.
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