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So there's this company, you may have heard of them, called Games Workshop. For the past 25 odd years now they've been merrily separating tweens and nerds from their cash in exchange for increasingly meagre handfuls of plastic models to play their games. This was a relatively stable set of affairs but I just learned that GW have done two very, very idiotic things (among others):
Given their financial outlook and what these trends imply, I've put this thread up. If you want to enter, post a date between now and December 31, 2015. If GW dies on this date, or if yours is the nearest guess, you win! Death here is defined as: Filing for bankruptcy Breaking off of or sales of divisions such as miniatures, publishing, selling the IP, etc. Discontinuation of all miniatures sales Company bought out If you guess successfully you could ~fabulous prizes~ (to be determined). If they don't die by the end date you get nothing. If there's a tie it goes to the first person to guess it. If you guess two dates you're out. Oh yeah, and don't take this too seriously. It's warhams.
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Abusing secret insider information obtained from my patented time travelling gizmo(tm) to predict: March 13th, 2015
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Jan 21, 2014 01:12
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Jesus, they got rid of golden daemon comps? Ugh. gently caress it, June 8, 2015
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Jan 21, 2014 01:13
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December 31, 2015 for free prizes
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Jan 21, 2014 01:14
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July 1, 2014 start of 4th fiscal quarter.
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Jan 21, 2014 01:17
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Aug 26, 2014 Why not.
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Jan 21, 2014 01:20
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Currently for prizes I have two 3rd edition codexii, for Tau and Orks, a 5th edition 40k rulebook, and 20 polka dot Catachans. I will rummage through my warhams some more to try and find a funnier prize (I may glue a bunch of poo poo together and make something that way)
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Jan 21, 2014 01:20
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boom boom boom fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Jan 21, 2014 01:21
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Surely the prizes should be some Warmachine stuff. I'm going to guess June 17, 2015
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Jan 21, 2014 01:34
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May 28, 2015
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Jan 21, 2014 01:45
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March 31, 2014.
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Jan 21, 2014 01:47
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Sept 12, 2015 - In the grim dark future, there will be Coke ads by the Emperor
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Jan 21, 2014 01:48
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Sept 21st, 2015 Well, at least we know how the golden throne's finally going to fail.
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Jan 21, 2014 01:51
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January 18, 2015
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Jan 21, 2014 02:00
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August 14th, 2015 Giving them enough time to try (and fail) to get their poo poo together.
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Jan 21, 2014 02:02
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When the hell did they ban pick-up games? I played a game in one 5 days ago. edit: I'm going with April 20th, 2015. Business Gorillas fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Jan 21, 2014 02:03
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I was "feeling" August 16th but that puts me right in between two people, so I'm going to say October 28th, 2015 edit: Added a year! Also the 16th of August would have been dumb seeing as that's a Sunday. LGD fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Jan 21, 2014 03:03
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Business Gorillas posted:When the hell did they ban pick-up games? I played a game in one 5 days ago. Can we get a quote on where they banned pickup games? That seems comically shortsighted. Not that I don't believe they wouldn't.... Oh, and October 1st, 2014
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Jan 21, 2014 04:21
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March 1, 2015 So what'll happen to their IP if/when they fail? Sold to Fantasy Flight? Gone forever because they believe each piece is worth $200 million alone?
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Jan 21, 2014 04:48
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June 26 2014, best day of the year.
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Jan 21, 2014 04:58
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Lightning Lord posted:March 1, 2015So what'll happen to their IP if/when they fail? Sold to Fantasy Flight? Gone forever because they believe each piece is worth $200 million alone? That or another big game company would salivate at owning those IPs. I wanna say Hasbro but who knows. It's not like they could do worse...
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Jan 21, 2014 05:00
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December 22, 2016
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Jan 21, 2014 06:27
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August 15th, 2014 No reason in particular just wanted to participate!
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Jan 21, 2014 06:54
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Picking my birthday because why not? September 6, 2014.
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Jan 21, 2014 07:00
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Deviant posted:Picking my birthday because why not? I like the cut of your jib. June 12th, 2015
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Jan 21, 2014 07:02
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Do we have a source on that they've banned pickup games? I believe you, I just can't find it.
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Jan 21, 2014 07:04
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August 1st, 2014
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Jan 21, 2014 08:04
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April 4th 2015 Not death, but a very special relationship with a company that respects the intellectual property. Someone that wants to make a series of games tied in with webisodes, comic books and a lego compatible brick collection. It will never be as good as life was circa Rogue trader, so rest in piss Games Workshop.
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Jan 21, 2014 08:28
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August 13, 2015
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Jan 21, 2014 09:14
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Forums Terrorist posted:I just learned that GW have done two very, very idiotic things (among others): Is there a link for this anywhere?
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Jan 21, 2014 09:41
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Spreadsheet with dates is here. As to the ban on PUGs and nixing Golden Daemon, I will confess my source on these matters was Rulebook Heavily in IRC.  Even if they're not true the fact that they're believable combined with the stock price says a lot.
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Jan 21, 2014 11:48
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Ok not being a warhams afiaconado, a pick up game is a game, that you didn't organise, that's quite likely played with a stranger? It's not some piece of GW jargon? Is this from GW stores only? Or are they gonna be refusing to stock flgs' or something as a black mail option? The more I type and think about this the more obviously insane it looks. If the ban is just GW stores, their customers go elsewhere, to, you know, play the game that GW sells. They only loose the store's markup on any sales this way I suppose. The other way? They're refusing to let people sell their stuff or something for letting people play, again, you know, the game they sell. Incidentally this thread is about number five on google when you search for golden daemon banned. Oh, and for my date I'm going to go with the comedy option of 23/1/14 because I live in new zealand and generous prize givers probably don't need to be stiffed huge shipping costs to send me stuff I'll probably only use as desperation D&D minis
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Jan 21, 2014 14:20
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rock rock posted:Ok not being a warhams afiaconado, a pick up game is a game, that you didn't organise, that's quite likely played with a stranger? It's not some piece of GW jargon? People have been using the term pickup game on basketball courts and board game parlors for, I dunno, as long as they have had them. It is not a GW term, it belongs to the WORLD. Also for the two complaints I have already gotten about this thread and the report, I will address it here. I don't care, this is clearly a comedy thread and not a detailed news report or actual prediction of the future. This place could do with more fun threads, and given the standards of fun in here this qualifies. If you are basing your stock purchases or possible gaming futures off of a thread posted on the Somethingawful forums by noted shitposter Forums_Terrorist, who tells you his intentions RIGHT IN HIS NAME, you should reconsider. That said, play nice in here.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:09
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A given Games Workshop Store is technically not supposed to allow poo poo like games being played in the store, it's a franchise rule thing. Won't stop them from doing it but yeah.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:17
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I'm going to guess September 9th, 2015. Because something something chaos numbers? That sounds right.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:19
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Going for November 20 2014, maybe they'll collapse in time for my birthday!
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Jan 21, 2014 15:20
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December 31, 2015. Yeah that's right.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:24
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K Prime posted:December 31, 2015. Someone beat you to it.
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Jan 21, 2014 15:24
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Curses! January 31 2015, then! My birthday!
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October 31st 2014 gettin spooky
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