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Battlefleet Gothic => [BFG] Discussion => Topic started by: Markconz on April 28, 2013, 03:44:54 AM
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Listed as no longer available on UK store ??? :(
Chaos Doomfire bombers
Dark Eldar Corsair
Marine Battle Barge
Tau Hero
Uh-oh...
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Theyre all still available on the US site. Try sending them an email about it, the last time something like this happened they had updated the site and some code got screwed up.
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The same thing is happening with the epic line too
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ID CALL Or email screw up prolly
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Frell.
Hope it is a flux. Keep us updated...
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Frell.
Hope it is a flux. Keep us updated...
Lol frell! Frack thats a fragging blast from the past. Ok Im sorry I think its out of me now. Dren.
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Great show. :)
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Lol frell! Frack thats a fragging blast from the past. Ok Im sorry I think its out of me now. Dren.
This doesn't just sound fahrbot - this sounds magra fahrbot!
... Anyway. If they were permanently pulling something from their range I think that they would remove the whole thing - picture, price, and page. At the very least they should say "this item is permanently unavailable".
... But maybe I'm just in denial as to the extent that GW is ignoring their specialist games. :/
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This might be the changes they are making to encourage their online store. They have also cut off all online private retailers to encourage their online sales.
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Dumb question but how does removing something from the online store that you pretty much couldn't get anywhere but from the online store help online sales?
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This is GW: BFG is part of their plan for planned obsolesce of games.
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Temporary glitch, they're available on the UK site now.
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Temporary glitch, they're available on the UK site now.
?? Not when I check, all the BFG models listed above are still listed as "no longer availalbe".
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Second the above!
Still, didn't they remove the Sword for a month or so before putting it back on? Trying to be optimistic :(
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Maybe I spoke too soon, could have been an old cached version in my browser.
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well if that happens I say we get a couple of ships together and make affordable molds of wanted cruiser and pieces, prolly the best or ebay
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Bad news from someone on Tac-command who contacted GW today. They are gone for good and won't be replaced as stocks run out.
Last chance to buy whatever you want from GW specialist games ranges, better be in quick. Though frankly I'd be tempted to direct my business elsewhere given the way GW has done this.
Now gone from Australian store also:
Eldar Void Stalker
Necron Tombship
Tau Defender
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Yup its sad to this happen. Hopefully when this is all said in done we'll see significant hobby spending with EW, DRM, Spartan, C&C, and Abomination all increase (as well as new gap filling lines produced by them - hint hint hint ;) )
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Latest Attrition
Rogue Trader cruiser-NLA
Shroud-NLA
Repulsive-NLA
Vengeance-1-2 Weeks
>:(
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More complete thread on this re: BFG=>
http://www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=5340.0 (http://www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=5340.0)
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Just in case someone comes looking in here, this is technically the more relevant thread (UK store). I've posted this in the more complete thread, linked to by Jimmy Zimms above.
In what I hope will help everyone out (I don't want to add to any feelings of panic etc) I was able to get stock levels for key items for Imperial, Space Marine and Chaos fleets, as posted below. This was from yesterday morning so certainly items will have dropped and may be out of stock by now.
01/05/2013 BFG STOCK FOR GW UK:
Chaos Fleet
Chaos Planet Killer - x10
Terminus Est - x4
Chaos Desolator Battleship - x17
Chaos Despoiler Battleship - x20
Chaos Repulsive Grand Cruiser - x0 (very sad to see this gone already, I've always wanted one... :( )
Chaos Cruisers - x20
Possessed Daemon Cruiser - x5
Space Marine Fleet
Space Marine Battle Barge - x25
Space Marine Strike Cruiser - x95
Space Marine Hunter Class Destroyers - x14
Space Marine Gladius Class Frigates - x23
Nova Class Frigates - x0
Firestorm Frigates - x3
Imperial Fleet
Imperial Emperor Class Battleship - x13
Imperial Retribution Class Battleship - x6
Apocalypse Class Imperial Battleship - x6
Imperial Vengeance Class Grand Cruiser - x24
Imperial Cruisers - x25
Imperial Dauntless Class Cruiser armed with lances - x10
Imperial Dauntless Class Cruiser armed with torpedoes - x3
Adeptus Mechanicus Battleship - x20
Adeptus Mechanicus Cruiser - x35
Adeptus Mechanicus Light Cruiser - 1 x0 - I missed out on this by about an hour yesterday, gutted!
Hope that helps some of you make informed decisions about what to get or not, and when.
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does anyone know for certian if the stuff is going out of production?
I'm fairly certian that forge world is, but the other stuff going out of stock may be due to panic buying
on the other hand this sudden surge in sales (which i'm sure is happening) might make games workshop re-consider scrapping specialist games (one can hope)
good thing i ordered my retribution yesterday
i also saked the manager at games workshop shrewsbury, he said theres been no talk of ending specialist games, but that it is most likley the molds are on their last legs
as for forge world, they may genuanlly be stopping production as it must be such a small part of their sales
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Anyone experiencing any quality issues? The wing section for my Apocalypse is a little malformed on the underside (not that you'll see it though).
Just wondering if GW were palming off badly made bits to get rid >:(
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Just wondering if GW were palming off badly made bits to get rid >:(
Well GW usually have pretty iffy quality control in my opinion anyways.
The problem here is that the moulds are dead which is a reason why the ranges are being scrapped, so these last batch minis are probably going to be as bad as things can get while making it through QC.
At least that is my understanding of the situation, similarly Epic suffered from a lot of casts dropping in quality for years now.
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Just wondering if GW were palming off badly made bits to get rid >:(
The thought had occured to me, my desolator is missing one wing and they shipped the despoiler with Imperial batteries!
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All three admech ships came with just the CL having a minor miscast on one of the small admech symbols. everything else is in perfect order. I think they must have improved considerably on the casting of the CL since Horizon got one. I even got all of the bridge pieces for the adMech battleship ;)
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From what Ive gathered alot of the casts are fairly new and theyre just trying to move away from metal. Of course with 90%+ of SG in metal there wouldnt be much reason to keep the plastic stuff.
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All three admech ships came with just the CL having a minor miscast on one of the small admech symbols. everything else is in perfect order. I think they must have improved considerably on the casting of the CL since Horizon got one. I even got all of the bridge pieces for the adMech battleship ;)
Ya, that CL was dreadfull. Still is...
But I got the complete bridge as well. :)
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come to think of it, the cobra destroyers i got last week had alot of excess meatal on the prow, had to spend quite a while filing it all off (one of them is missing a torp tube)
i'm keeping my hopes up that this drop in stock is more due to the mass buying thats going on now and that it might encourage them to reproduce in plastic (could easily turn all 3 imperial battleships into 1 multi part box)
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All three admech ships came with just the CL having a minor miscast on one of the small admech symbols. everything else is in perfect order. I think they must have improved considerably on the casting of the CL since Horizon got one. I even got all of the bridge pieces for the adMech battleship ;)
My friend just got a Despoiler which also came with Imperial batteries as well.
I missed out on the Ad Mech light cruisers by a day so had to order 2 regular AM cruisers and the AM BS.
The SM Battlebarge was gone on the UK store for a few days but is back now.
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While a lot of common ships are going to continue to go around Ebay for a while, personally not being able to get the Solaris and Aurora light cruisers from FW has caused the SO and I to consider if we're going to keep picking up BFG ships or not.
Annoyingly I was going to pick them up a few weeks ago, but as I couldn't make it to Salute, decided to wait until later for them. Arse.
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does suck for those who have yet to build fleets, my plans were always to scratch build all of the fleets apart from imperial, eldar, chaos and marines. i own most of that but not one eldar ship as yet so they will have to go onto the scratchbuild list as well.
anybody else expecting ebay prices to shoot through the roof?
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All three admech ships came with just the CL having a minor miscast on one of the small admech symbols. everything else is in perfect order. I think they must have improved considerably on the casting of the CL since Horizon got one. I even got all of the bridge pieces for the adMech battleship ;)
Ya, that CL was dreadfull. Still is...
But I got the complete bridge as well. :)
Hey now, I like that cruiser, a lot actually... :P
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The AdMech cruiser is awesome, yes. ;)
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The Repulsive Grand Cruiser is still available on the Aus GW site. If you guys don't mind paying a premium, as well as have some capability to get it actually shipped to wherever, now's a good time. :) AFAIK, nothing on the Aus GW site is NLA yet, except for one of the Eldar Cruisers. Not surprising.
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I just ordered a craftworld eldar fleet from the GW Australia site. Yes it was about $50 NZ more than getting it from the UK and having it shipped through a friend, but i was able to get dragonships and if anything is miscast or there are problems in delivery, i can hassle GW myself.
If there are things on the Aus/NZ site that are unavailable in the rest of the world, i would be happy to order them and have them sent to you at cost. It won't be cheap though. We all know how ridiculous prices are down here.
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[EDIT] Sorry wrong thread! :) [/EDIT]
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well they've started taking stuff off the site now
although some things have stayed up despite being first to sell out (rouge trader crusier for example)
could either be a sign that some products will continue on a small scale, or half arsed web site maintinance
on the birght side my panic buying has resulted in me completing my fleet far quicker than i thought i would
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on the birght side my panic buying has resulted in me completing my fleet far quicker than i thought i would
same here.
although its still a shame the stuff will probably never come back, and pretty outrageous how GW deals with this entire thing... >:(
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i've got some hope that they may re-do somethings in plastic
me and the manger at shrewsbury agree that most of the ships could easily have been turned into a single box set (imperial battleships for example)
I'm finding how hushed up games workshop has been keeping this to be the worst part of it......its like they don't want to draw attention to it in case there's a surge of interest, even their staff know nothing about it
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ah great, just had an e-mail about my order for a retribution class battleship and apparently i don't get to receive the model i ordered and paid for despite the fact i ordered it when it was still in stock last week
thanks games workshop, i really appreciate you taking my money and not delivering the product
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ah great, just had an e-mail about my order for a retribution class battleship and apparently i don't get to receive the model i ordered and paid for despite the fact i ordered it when it was still in stock last week
thanks games workshop, i really appreciate you taking my money and not delivering the product
Ooh that's really bad, GW's prices are IMHO only justified by having excellent customer service when products are bad or undelivered.
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Same thing happend to me too. Half my warmaster order (which I already paid for) will not be delivered. That was like 50 blisters, lol :)
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my hunter escorts got scrubbed off my most recent purchase >:(
only ships i dont have for my space wolves fleet, i have forgeworld ones but they are reserved for a differnt chapter, guess ebay might help, expensive help though :'(
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i'd have thought that if the orders placed for an item outnumbered its stock, that they would've made some more so as to fill all the orders
so not re-stock it, just make a few more for those people that have ordered the item, especially if it was in stock at the time of ordering
i'm really pissed off now and wondering whether or not i'll get the rest of my order
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Not really with discontinued items . they should refund you if they can't fulfill the order though.
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well i rang customer services and they offered to have one made for me, because it was in stock when i ordered it, so strangly enough i took them up on this offer
so all i've got to do is wait upto 28 days
i highly recomend this course of action if anyone has had the same problem, because you do have to ring them up about it
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http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat490020a&prodId=prod1140154
wait, what? the BBB is for sale on the UK website? ???
was it always there (never was in germany, know that for sure) or am i right and it popped up just some days ago...?
(maybe they found some copies lying around and thought "well, why not get rid of these too" or something like that....)
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http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat490020a&prodId=prod1140154
wait, what? the BBB is for sale on the UK website? ???
was it always there (never was in germany, know that for sure) or am i right and it popped up just some days ago...?
(maybe they found some copies lying around and thought "well, why not get rid of these too" or something like that....)
Once they did the revision it was always there.
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Once they did the revision it was always there.
oh, okay ^^
was just slightly confused because as i said, it never was there in germany ^^
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My two Dauntless' showed up within two weeks of ordering; both came from the UK warehouse instead of US, which is odd. Probably explains why one of the bases is malformed and looks like a butt. I'll have a pic tonight.
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gw site just let me order 2 torpedo dauntless' just seen 2 go for more than the gw price on ebay? do we know what is gone forever and what is still available? is there a list somewhere? think i am done buying now but others might benefit from such a list?
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I managed to get a tau manta and a couple of protectors from FW. Apparently "out of stock" means "not many left" so it's always worth contacting them by phone...
[Edit] so the manta arrived and it was only one of the old ones with removable landing bay! Cream coloured resin and everything! Result!