Tabletop Warhammer?

Tunney · 2 Feb 2014 at 10:25

I've been subscribing to the iPad edition of White Dwarf since they started it. Visions is very crappy in comparison. I've asked for a refund.

Pudney · 2 Feb 2014 at 10:57

Who did you contact for the refund on the ipad version?

Shamikebab · 2 Feb 2014 at 11:28

Visions is an overpriced glorified catalogue and should be avoided at all cost. The weekly one seems....ok but probably only worth it if you have an interest in what's on the cover.

Brabbinho · 2 Feb 2014 at 20:10

Visions sounds like a great waste of time, certainly as a monthly edition. Might have a look at the weekly to see what that's like.

I need to do some more painting, been lax as of late

Shamikebab · 2 Feb 2014 at 20:15

I've actually been really productive this week. My Space Marine is done (just need to do some fluff and take a photo!) White Scar is almost done, just doing the base. Started on the Sons of Orar.

Tunney · 2 Feb 2014 at 21:27

Hooray for Apple. They've agreed to refund me.

Pudney said:
Who did you contact for the refund on the ipad version?

Follow the instructions on GW's website. It's up to Apple to decide whether to offer a refund or not. I said that I subscribed to White Dwarf and that my subscription has been swapped to a magazine that I didn't ask to be subscribed to.

Woogie · 3 Feb 2014 at 13:07

I got Visions yesterday and wish I hadn't. Its awful, Absolutely awful. While the pictures are great and its nice to see a larger variety the editing is sub par even for GW. I won't be shelling out £7.50 again for that.

Shamikebab · 3 Feb 2014 at 13:22

Did any of you looks for reviews??

Rising · 3 Feb 2014 at 20:59

The lady at GW wasn't surprised when I phoned to cancel my sub, I think she had been doing it all morning.

Brabbinho · 3 Feb 2014 at 21:08

I did, and as a result won't be buying

JHeaton · 3 Feb 2014 at 21:13

So, I've been out of the loop for a while. What is Visions? :confused:

Brabbinho · 3 Feb 2014 at 21:24

A new monthly magazine to replace WD. It's a photo Mag. WD is now weekly and 30 pages long

Shamikebab · 3 Feb 2014 at 21:55

JHeaton said:
So, I've been out of the loop for a while. What is Visions?

Remember that content you used to get in White Dwarf? (you know that ageing, outdated magazine that was slowly decreasing in quality over time) Well GW HQ had a meeting and decided that the way to invigorate it was to split the content into a monthly brochure of pictures (and of course the 11 page store listing that no-one has used in a decade and could just be on their website), that costs more than the old White Dwarf (This is Visions) and a weekly magazine that includes the rest of the stuff in White Dwarf but is now weekly so costs over twice as much for the same amount of monthly content!

Smart guys.

Tunney · 3 Feb 2014 at 23:19

Unlike Playboy, I actually bought White Dwarf for the articles. I'd love to know what the thought process was behind this move.

JHeaton · 4 Feb 2014 at 07:54

Marvellous. On the plus side, this does stop me buying the occasional copy of WD, which hasn't really been very good (in my opinion) since Paul Sawyer left.

Shamikebab · 4 Feb 2014 at 08:13

Tunney said:
Unlike Playboy, I actually bought White Dwarf for the articles. I'd love to know what the thought process was behind this move.

I think the next natural step is for someone at GWHQ to point out that customers can look at pictures of models for free on sites like DakkaDakka and CMON and then GW will issue a cease and desist to every website that has pictures of GW miniatures...

lordhughes · 4 Feb 2014 at 09:43

Tunney said:
Unlike Playboy, I actually bought White Dwarf for the articles. I'd love to know what the thought process was behind this move.

What they think will happen:
If we make white dwarf cost £10 a month but over 4 weeks, and do our releases gradually people will spend more money because it won't feel like they are paying out for new releases all at once.

what will actually happen:
Oh **** people have stopped buying white dwarf, ok lets put it back to the old format at £7.50 per copy, because people purchased visions that one month so its obviosuly an ok price point, next we will decrease the number of mini's in each box put the price up and do one release a month. Yes its fool proof. Oh and get Matt Ward to write all future codexes. People love Matt Ward.

(at this point the GW executive does a dose of Obscura, because unlike pudney he is not a pussy

)

aceytrixx · 4 Feb 2014 at 12:02

lordhughes said:
Oh and get Matt Ward to write all future codexes. People love Matt Ward.

Since all future codices are a design team effort matt ward could very well be involved in every book from here on.

Brabbinho · 4 Feb 2014 at 13:05

Do they not realize that most people buy the mags for written articles not glossy pictures which are on the website anyway? What they call battle reports these days is a complete joke

Shamikebab · 4 Feb 2014 at 13:07

Clearly not, you seem to be mistaking GW for a company with some semblance of competence