Tell us on what occasion you have been priced out by GW

[sarabando]

when i  saw the price of a box of troops(berserkers)  hit £40 i knew it wasnt long for me. 

i dont mind getting the big boxes as im happy to budget for a larger box and spend longer doing it but they are now harder to get  and even they are getting out of hand. 

[Frogian]

for me selling off stuff i don't want has massively brought down what i've spent overall, as well as trying to pick stuff up 2nd hand 

 

i've got half my kill teams from the double boxes where i've sold off one of them. its been a good way to get the ones i want cheap, as well as the rules/tokens/terrain. 

selling my plague marines and necrons also got me back what i paid for DI and Indomtius. I'll sell my tyranids at some point and get back a big chunk of the cost of leviathan (95% of my space marines are from a new edition set or hachette mags).

when i got back into necromunda i managed to get a copy of Ash Wastes off facebook for £125, sold the terrain and the nomads on for basically what i paid - i think it ended up working out as £10 for the orlock basic gang + the orlock vehicles + the templates/dice/rules. i think that was less than what the necromunda dice cost. 

 

i've not played AoS yet, but i've got some slyvanth and goblins, and again - all from hachette (or facebook/ebay buys of people selling hachette stuff)

 

i really try to avoid just buying regular boxes of single units as much as possible, and just not keep stuff that i'm not really bothered about. 

[Karhedron]

4 minutes ago, Frogian said:

as well as trying to pick stuff up 2nd hand 

 

Always handy when possible but in effect someone else's over-buying is subsidising that discount.

[Orange Knight]

On 9/26/2025 at 3:36 PM, Frogian said:

for me selling off stuff i don't want has massively brought down what i've spent overall, as well as trying to pick stuff up 2nd hand 

 

 

This has helped me a lot as well. I'm a decent painter- nothing amazing, but I have been in the hobby for 30 years.

Occasionally I will sell a unit or two, and they will cover the price of my purchases. For example, I used to have 3 Redemptor Dreadnought. I sold one of them and an infantry squad that I felt was redundant in my collection and was able to buy the Leviathan set at the start of 10th with the money I made.

[Doghouse]

For me it's a value thing.

 

I stopped buying because I no longer feel that I am getting value for my money or investment in time with the newer kits, whether it's expense or the shear amount of time I have to spend making a model only to be heavily steered to making them how GW want me to.

 

I've shifted more into the 3d printing world and expanded my horizons beyond what GW currently offer so I've outgrown their products I guess which further makes their prices seem distasteful to me. Instead I am quite happily sat creating my own little game system and miniatures from scratch which has been very rewarding and allowed me to get back to what I consider to be the true roots of wargaming as a hobby over what has become an overly priced competitive tabletop game to me.

 

I think that you can get some decent deals from box splitting as some have mentioned but I really do not want to become a reseller in order to make back money that I feel I should not be paying in the first place.

 

I'd much rather feed my imagination than fill their coffers.

[Xenith]

They haven't priced me out completely, and most things with a 20% discount I will still buy, however clear red lines for me, in terms of things I will not buy are:

 

£24 single miniatures unless special characters

£14-18 single troop miniatures like death guard icon bearer or champion.

Any unit at over £12 a model from forge world - suzerians, crimson paladins Lerneans, etc at £75 for 5 models are insanely priced. I aaaalmost once bought a set of angels tears at £58 for 5, and maybe if i liked the models more I would have, but they're ugly, and now out of scale. 

The kratos at £85 is too much. I did buy one at £75 with a 20% discount on top. 

[Viridia]

I suppose priced out for me is all the editions throughout the years. When I first got my grubby little hands on Ultramarines at the age of seven, 3rd edition had only been out for about a year, I think? Since then we've had seven further main edition rulebooks, the same again for each of the factions (in most cases - farewell my beloved Codex Catachan Jungle Fighters!), units have been added and nerfed, units removed wholesale, or moved to different armies (perhaps more a WFB issue, but still)

 

It is a luxury hobby, that is right, but when I look at something like Rapid Fire, who are now on their 3rd or due to be releasing a 3rd edition after going since 1994, it's frustrating to realise that I can get more bang for my buck by focusing on historical gaming (my British infantry company or German panzers for Flames of War can be used for tons of different games) or finding a group that focuses on one version of 40k, in this case I'm choosing to stick with 1st edition Age of Darkness. At least then I know there's not really a zeitgeist to chase, I can just build, paint and play as I wish.

 

Also inflation can suck it when it comes to the price of a basic box of infantry. Bloody extortionate prices these days!

[Orion]

I haven't been by prices, but I have been significantly lessened by Forge World being killed off.
I don't want recasts, I don't want ebay prices, and I don't want a lot of plastic kits. 

 

On a side note, the game is 6ft under to me as of the start of 10th.

[JeffJedi]

I've not been priced out but I'm not going to buy something just  because of Scale Creep. I'm not going to replace something just because the new model is bigger.

 

I have several full companies and was nearing a full chapter before Primaris came out. I'm sure now I could say I have the entire chapter of Dark Angels. I just don't *need* anything unless it's totally new.

 

Really most GW things require a lot of time and effort to make look good and you can play with them a long time. I'd say they are pretty good for their cost in general.

 

But the $100 Troop squad is coming and I'm not doing that. Also you can get almost double the models in Horus Heresy for the same price. Terminators, Tactical and Assault squads for sure.

Edited October 7 by JeffJedi

[Jukkiz]

LAdy malys currently costs 38€

Primaris intercessors = 51,50


Yeah..... 

[Orange Knight]

I don't mind characters costing more because you only ever need 1 of them. That isn't to defend the spiralling costs of GW plastic.

Edited October 8 by Orange Knight

[Helbrechts_Sword_Servitor]

I think alot about my purchases, and I only buy stuff that I'll enjoy painting.

 

Also, I like a lot of conversion work, so I'm rebasing and adding bits to firstborn units to make them stand-in for their primaris counterparts.

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

It would be interesting to see how many people left because of lore and/or rules and if that has a greater impact than price. 

[darkhorse0607]

14 minutes ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

It would be interesting to see how many people left because of lore and/or rules and if that has a greater impact than price. 

 

Not the entirety of the hobby, but I did leave the Heresy (at least for the most part), after the Siege series. Im not going to drag this thread into a debate about it, but I really did not love how everything resolved and while it doesn't change all the things I love about the Heresy, between that and the change of aesthetic that's been happening I am hanging it up for a bit 

 

But now we have the Scouring, so maybe that will change? To be fair, I also don't love the Primarchs in 40k, but at least in that setting there are different avenues to go down to get what you do want, rather than being stuck in a linear path like most of the Heresy 

Edited October 8 by darkhorse0607

[Grotsmasha]

18 hours ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

It would be interesting to see how many people left because of lore and/or rules and if that has a greater impact than price. 

 

The Rule/Load-Out changes between editions invalidating units is the main reason I've never jumped back into 40K / AoS, and stick to the self contained "board" games.

[Arikel]

I shelved 40k entirely for 8th edition and came back in the tail end of 9th. Mostly I just pick up new stuff that seems cool now, which lately is mostly agents/guard/sob related. I’m still on my 20+ year mission to fill out my 4th company of the Iron Boots, so while I’ve picked up the odd space marine here and there, my big sm purchases have been second hand firstborns. 
 

Forgeworld has always been too expensive for me. Only one figure so far so far has tempted me to pull the FW trigger and that is the  https://www.warhammer.com/en-CA/shop/mind-locked-wyrd-and-cephalopod-spektors-2023?queryID=4901157f3c2e4d21302aa90ce1e2d7aa

 

If i do get her, she will be a primaris pysker for the platoon of guard I plan to build from House Escher gangers.

 

I go for deals if possible, and almost exclusively 3rd party. The amount of lifetime purchases from GW direct I have made I can count on one hand. 
 

While I might never stop buying completely, I certainly have slowed down and put a bit more thought into what I will buy, and the best way to obtain it than I used to.

 

 

[NovemberIX]

I've been thinking about this thread for a while, and in the end I kinda figured it's not so much that GW has priced me out, but that they kinda stopped selling to me. Most of my army is in legends, more going with every edition change, what firstborn kits there are left I've already bought for my needs. It is also a little hard to reconcile that a tac squad costs as much as a land raider used to. 

 

I will admit, I usually say I'm out, and that I've made my last purchase for my army/backlog but then something new comes out and I find a way to justify it. Except for now my backlog has grown pretty extensive, and the new monopose way models are being made doesn't really appeal to me, so I'm effectively out.

[Corswain]

GW isn't cheap but I've always felt the value was there for me so I don't think I have ever not made a purchase because the cost was too high.

My hobby budget is finite, however, so I have missed out on some things that were limited, made to order or retired because I have prioritised purchasing something else. I don't feel like that's quite the same thing as being priced out but it's still a little sad sometimes.

 

[Vogon]

I haven't been priced out as such but like manyothers I have severely cut back on what I do buy.   This is due to a number of reasons.  The changes from the rules I grew up with (I'm a child of 1st Edition) has accelerated away from the game i wanted to play with increasing rapidity in recent years.  My personal situation and the 3 year edition cycle means I might get a couple of games in at most before the rules change and I need to buy a whole set of new books. 

Another thing for me at while not 40K was the removal of Warhammer Forge Chaos Dwarfs.  i had spent quite a lot of money on them over several years only for them to cease to exist as a viable faction with the advent of AoS. I know they're coming bak but it's too late for me.

More recently I have switched to low model count games like Titanicus, Kill Team, Necromunda and Blood Bowl.  I've also been doing a lot more TTRPGs including Dark Heresy and buy the odd model that I like for characters.  I don't mind paying a bit more for these as I really dont need many and i like the character models from the Forge World Necromunda range. 

I honestly don't think I will ever buy a whole new army as i have fallen out of lovewith the current format.  I haven't sold any of my armies and may come back to HH or Old World as I have a lot that i could continue to use without more investment but the modern game no longer holds any interest for me.  

 

Cheers

Vogon

[SvenIronhand]

If anything, I haven’t been priced out so much as compelled to slow my purchasing so stuff actually gets painted. 

[Jukkiz]

On 10/8/2025 at 12:24 PM, Orange Knight said:

I don't mind characters costing more because you only ever need 1 of them. That isn't to defend the spiralling costs of GW plastic.

One monopose model with zero options, shouldn´t cost over half of 10 man squad 

[Timberley]

I've not been priced out of GW per se, but I've been priced out of the big games due to the shifting of model scales, pricing, and what seem like constant rules changes.  Plus, to answer @The Praetorian of Inwit, the lore changes were quite a big factor in me taking a step back from 40K, whilst various rules changes and HH looking like it's on the GW 3-year cycle quashed any interest I had in developing a 30K army.  I've also been slowly packaging and selling a fair amount of the Pile of Shame because I realised that I don't have the time to paint it all, but also the love of the army has gone.

 

Like other Frater, I've moved to smaller games, mainly Necromunda in the GW stable, with some casual Kill Team thrown in.  In an amusing turn of events, I've found myself spending more than I might otherwise have done, because I want to make a ganger look just so, or I want to make a custom Secundus rig, etc. so I'll buy random models from eBay, or get whole kits via FLGS to saw up.  To me, it feels like I can be more artistically expressive (read: convert and have outrageous kitbashes) in Necromunda than I could be in modern 40K.  Further, a game like Kill Team is great for custom/homebrew chapters/craftworlds/warbands/etc. without the expenditure of a full 40K army. Also, whilst the actual number of models on the board might be smaller, to get a decent terrain layout is very expensive if you don't have a 3D printer, so it's swings and roundabouts.