The money will be paid on an equal basis to each member of staff.
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On the one hand, fuck GW, their plastic is too damn expensive for what it is.
On the other hand, respect for paying out profits to the employees. Mad respect, 100%. Wish more companies did that.
Lots of stuff to bitch about with GW but prices aren’t one of them. Exhibit A is the article you’re responding to, they are responsible with their profits and put them where they should. Exhibit B is they could minimize costs and outsource the entire plastic operation but they still make all models in England. Exhibit C is paying for Art is always morally the correct thing to do, even when mass produced. Finally Exhibit D, fuck GW for promoting incredibly short lifecycles for their games and pushing an almost weekly FOMO event on products that leads a lot more to these profits than just model sales.
I’m not a 40k player but nowadays you can just 3d print all the models.
It’s the painting and detailing that can be quite expensive and time consuming. You obviously don’t have to paint your minis, but that’s the entire point for a lot of people.
Trench crusade official units are 3d printed! You buy the files
As a board gamer who generally shops at the same places as 40k players: this does not surprise me in the least. Those goddamn armies are pricey.
I don’t think it has anything to do with their physical media, and everything to do with their successful video games sales over the past few years.
While that’s great, it also speaks volumes when taken in context with their customer-hostile business practices.
Is it customer hostile? I thought it was just licencing-hostile, fucking over others with their IPS left and right.
I don’t know much about them.
They used to give out their IP to shitty mobile games for pennies. Then they went after actual creators who made something amazing and gated them behind a subscription service.
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I dunno if there is a subculture of printing the models at home. I would think resin printers would have more than enough resolution to make good miniatures. Is that frowned upon? There is no reason to buy overpriced licensed shit.
Oh there is absolutely a group that prints their own, and before that there were re-molds that were made based on the real ones.
From what I understand, (friends play) they aren’t allowed in “official” sponsored matches, so if you really want to compete big you have to have real armies. But also they have printed one of those $800 models because most people don’t have the cash to throw at stuff like that.
So I’m sure there are some diehard people that only think official models should be used but it doesn’t seem common.
Can confirm, buddy with a resin printer is slowly hooking me up with an Adeptus Mechanicus army and he prints shit for his friends too. Recasts are likely in-between price-wise but pretty solid quality.
That’s a crazy good bonus. Most I ever received was 2 grand.
I did the math. If headcount didn’t change in the last 12 months then the bonus each employee will receive will be ~$9152.54.
10k is just fine. 18k is better, but no one complains about 10k :)
For certain. I hope nobody thinks I’m dismissing this awesome move. I just wanted to know how much each individual got.
The article disagrees, but idk what staffing numbers are right
The stat I found was 2950 employees world wide as of June 2024.
It said in the article that it’s 18 grand American per employee I thought
I used the numbers from their financial disclosure. I have no idea where the article got its information.
I got my information from the article so who knows lol
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Heretic!
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I don’t play board games like warhammer but if I did I would happily pay the premium I see on those figurines if it means this happens.
