Warhammer+ Price increase

[MARK0SIAN]

Hi all,

 

Apologies if this is old news but I received this email today indicating a price increase for Warhammer+
 

[darkhorse0607]

Must be because of the flood of animations they're putting out

[Brother Captain Arkley]

Unless the model is spectacular, I doubt I will renew this year.

[Marshal Rohr]

A price increase for what!? There isn’t anything on there. 

[Lord Marshal]

On a related note, the list builder in the 40k app will no longer be free from next month.

[soviet1337]

I didn't consider myself a subscriber in the first place, I simply bought a very expensive Chaos Terminator and never watched a single video 

[Jukkiz]

seems like yearly price increase for GW is now in effect

[nodnol88]

And they’ve just put the Battle Forge part of the app behind Warhammer +…

[Lord Marshal]

Just now, soviet1337 said:

I didn't consider myself a subscriber in the first place, I simply bought a very expensive Chaos Terminator and never watched a single video 

 

I wouldn't be surprised if that's overwhelmingly the case for most of the numbers. 

[Marshal Rohr]

Games Workshop: We consider Warhammer+ a success!

 

Every Single subscriber: You really shouldn’t. 

[Magos Takatus]

8 minutes ago, MARK0SIAN said:

Hi all,

 

Apologies if this is old news but I received this email today indicating a price increase for Warhammer+
 

 

This think this sums up my thoughts more than anything else can. I still haven't got my model for this year. Getting fed up waiting.

[skylerboodie]

"you also get to pick a free miniature that’s initially exclusive to a Warhammer+ subscription."

 

From WarCom article; emphasis in bold is mine. Is this a change? I thought the miniatures were an exclusive, full-stop, not just for an initial period. Wouldn't want to have paid £50+ per annum (soon to be more), only for the mini to be available on the GW website in future at half the price.

[darkhorse0607]

9 minutes ago, skylerboodie said:

"you also get to pick a free miniature that’s initially exclusive to a Warhammer+ subscription."

 

From WarCom article; emphasis in bold is mine. Is this a change? I thought the miniatures were an exclusive, full-stop, not just for an initial period. Wouldn't want to have paid £50+ per annum (soon to be more), only for the mini to be available on the GW website in future at half the price.

 

What do you want to bet they have a stockpile of them somewhere because they predicted annual subscriptions to be more, and now higher-ups are saying they want them gone before the new ones are debuted to make room.

 

Can't help but wonder if that'll backfire for subscription numbers though because you'll be able to just buy the mini rather than having to stay signed up

[Marshal Rohr]

They will be adopting the pricing model from another company where you pay a monthly subscription fee and then tip them for pay per view content. If you auto renew every month you get a selfie of Stu Black in a Bikini. 

[Halandaar]

Given that the annual/upfront price is not changing it's probably an effort to convert monthly subscribers in to annual ones, no? If it was just about charging more, the annual price would be going up too.

 

 

[Matrindur]

37 minutes ago, skylerboodie said:

"you also get to pick a free miniature that’s initially exclusive to a Warhammer+ subscription."

 

From WarCom article; emphasis in bold is mine. Is this a change? I thought the miniatures were an exclusive, full-stop, not just for an initial period. Wouldn't want to have paid £50+ per annum (soon to be more), only for the mini to be available on the GW website in future at half the price.

On one hand, yes that would probably stop some people from getting the annual subscription if they can just get the mini later,

on the other hand that makes it possible to actually update models via this and not just release alternative versions/display versions.

And if the mini looks great and has good rules I can see people buying the subscription just to get it sooner so they can use it in their games. After all the concept of minis locked to boxes months before their general release like the lion works. It would be that just taken to the extreme. Longer wait times (Probably the full year) and paying more instead of getting a discount.

 

Next returning Primarch locked to Warhammer+ for a year? 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Matrindur

[phandaal]

41 minutes ago, skylerboodie said:

"you also get to pick a free miniature that’s initially exclusive to a Warhammer+ subscription."

 

From WarCom article; emphasis in bold is mine. Is this a change? I thought the miniatures were an exclusive, full-stop, not just for an initial period. Wouldn't want to have paid £50+ per annum (soon to be more), only for the mini to be available on the GW website in future at half the price.

 

They have been walking the requirements back since the beginning. At launch it was "after you subscribe for a full  year, you get a model." Then it became "if you buy a full year subscription at any time, you get this year's model." Now it seems to be moving towards "just buy the model, please and thank you."

[Marshal Reinhard]

When are they going reveal the next model? Will not renew unless I'm blown away.

[Kastor Krieg]

1 hour ago, Brother Captain Arkley said:

Unless the model is spectacular, I doubt I will renew this year.

Didn't they actually say there will be no model the third time around?

[Marshal Reinhard]

4 minutes ago, Kastor Krieg said:

Didn't they actually say there will be no model the third time around?

Get me a confirmation of that and I'm canceling right away

[Toxichobbit]

25 minutes ago, Marshal Reinhard said:

Get me a confirmation of that and I'm canceling right away

 

Me too. I'm saving so much money this year thanks to GW. I'm pretty impressed how much they don't want me to spend with them.

[Rain]

1 hour ago, soviet1337 said:

I didn't consider myself a subscriber in the first place, I simply bought a very expensive Chaos Terminator and never watched a single video 

Yes, a Terminator Lord model for a faction that cannot take Terminator Lords. Truly an inspired choice James Workshop 

[The4thHorseman]

Not suprised.

GW sliding deeper and deeper into scumbag company territory. Its a good thing that plenty of other avenues exist to watch the animations and get the models without supporting GW at all.

[andes]

There will be (semi-)exclusive models for subscribing, the very last sentence of today's announcement outright says so. Gonna have to be a great model for me this year.... the previous are still just sitting in my to-be-painted box, and I was pretty damned hyped for them. 

[Domhnall]

16 minutes ago, andes said:

There will be (semi-)exclusive models for subscribing, the very last sentence of today's announcement outright says so. Gonna have to be a great model for me this year.... the previous are still just sitting in my to-be-painted box, and I was pretty damned hyped for them. 

 

The sentence in question: 

"On top of all that, you also get to pick a free miniature that’s initially exclusive to a Warhammer+ subscription."

 

I'm hoping that it's just poorly worded and means that it's initally exclusive to WH+ annual subscribers and the monthly subscribers get at the end of the year like year 2... 

Though even I'm finding the linguistic gymnastics required a bit of a stretch to believe that's the case, and more likely the sentence is as read.