Well the thing that every-one already knew was happening is now officially happening...be sure to feign surprise...we don't want to hurt their feelings after all...
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Introducing two new magazines from the White Dwarf team!
White Dwarf, now weekly.
Available exclusively through Games Workshop stores, independent retailers, and games-workshop.com. White Dwarf is an exciting and essential weekly hobby magazine that contains something for every hobbyist, every week - guaranteed!
- 36 pages of everything that is exciting and new in the hobby this week.
- Detailed information on all the week’s other new releases, and the latest hobby news.
- New features, new modelling and painting techniques, new rules, new columnists and much more.
- All this every week for the same price as a single Citadel pot of paint!
Issue No.1 launches Saturday 1st February and subsequent issues follow every Saturday.
Warhammer: Visions, now monthly.
Experience a visual feast of super high-quality Citadel Miniatures. In more than 230 pages you’ll find a completely new take on the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 in a stunning new extended pictorial style.
- Contains all your favourite sections from Army of the Month and Blanchitsu, to Kit Bash and Paint Splatter.
- Over 70 more pages than the previous monthly White Dwarf with more Golden Demon and Armies on Parade photos and more fantastic photographs of Citadel miniatures than ever before.
And it’s wrapped up in a fabulous new format that you will want to keep and collect! Issue No.1 out Saturday 1st February.
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While I realise perfectly well that nobody who matter at GW will ever read this, I'll throw in my 2c on this new change to the White Dwarf format.
ReplyDeleteIn short, having skimmed through the two new magazines that will replace the old style White Dwarf, my oppinion as a LONG time GW follower with every single issue of White Dwarf since the late 80'es, and a person with a Ms. Sci. in business and running my own company: This new change sucks :-(
I want to like the two new magazines. I truely do. But I just can not justify the price, compared with what I got the impression you're getting. What GW has basically done, is take the content of the old White Dwarf and split it into two magazines, added some more product pictures, and increased the price. If I'm not much mistaken you'll be going from around 5,5£ to around 7,5£+2,4£ (assuming we consider one weekly magazine the equivalent of 1 former monthly magazine. If not, you can multiply the 2,4£ by 2-4, depending on you oppinion). I'm sorry GW, but it just isn't worth it.
GW. We don't need 230+ pages a month worth of pictures of your miniatures, interspersed with a couple of pages about painting tips and what's supposed to constitute a battle report these days.
Pick up and read all of the White Dwarf magazines from the 90'es, and then go back to the drawingboard GW, and give us something akin to that again! If you want some place to advertise your upcoming new models and releases on a weekly basis, do it on the internet, or make a weekly flyer people can pick up for free in their local shop. Give us a magazine with some worthwhile CONTENT for gods sake!!! CONTENT. Not product release information, adverts, and shop addresses. CONTENT. Stuff that inspires us as gamers and hobbyists. Teach us how to paint stuff properly. Give us some new rules for new troops. Give us articles about how to make buildings, woods and other types of scenery stuff. Give us some short stories from your worlds. Give us some new scenarios. Give us some CONTENT that's worth coming back to and reading more than once. Give us inspiring articles on battlefield tactics and showcase your armies in proper battle reports like you did back in the 90'es. And if need be, scale down the size to what it was earlier. I'll happily pay 5£ a month for a 50page magazine with some decent content I want to save and come back to and read again. But I do not want to pay 2,4£ a week for what we are getting now, plus 7,5£ a month for something I really only want 10 of the 230+ pages of.
I'm truely sad to say this, but IMO the new Visions will be dead within a year, and the survival of the weekly magazine will depend entirely on the quality of the articles they manage to come up with. And in that respect I'm not overly optimistic :-(
It's not been particularly well received locally either...
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