Spending 80$ on a single games? Too expensive!

Spending 80$ on a single games? Too expensive!

Spending 1500$ on a tourney viable tabletop army? OMNOMNOMNOM THANK YOY GAMES WORKSHOP

I'm doing neither of these things.

Why does this plastic shit cost so much?
It's like $3 of material

Why lower the price when retarded whiteys buy it anyway

Buy 80$ Game

Buy season pass 20$

Buy extra DLC that was really just cut content 5-150$ Day one

Finish it in probably a week or so at 25 hours if its good

Return to MMOGAASGACHESLOPPA for the next month until totally awesome AAA game NEXT comes out and repeat

Sweet anon.

Tabletop CHAD minis

Anywhere from 1-1500 trumpbucks

But you can also just print them if you want

They actually hold some value and can be resold if you want

Honestly a friend of mine got me into it a few years back and im kinda sad i didn't like it sooner shit is fun.

GW does have 1 legitimate excuse, that being that they keep all their production at home in bongistan instead of doing it all in china or vietnam. And of course the UK is an overregulated hellhole so making literally anything there is an exercise in frustration. Other than that, it's because all their competitors in the western tabletop space keep shooting themselves in the foot (see: privateer press) and the vastly superior asian manufacturers use 99% of their output on gundams instead. So they effectively hold a soft monopoly.

Remembering what it was like playing against IG back then makes me want to punch drywall.

(see: privateer press)

I worked at PP for 4 years in the warehouse

Spend $70 for Monster Hunter Wilds no problem. 10 million sales.

Spend $80 for just one game from Nintendo. Everyone mindbroken and grifting for months on end about the downfall of gaming.

Why are people like this? This hardly seems like a hill people should die on even when we've had $100 games before with the Starfield deluxe edition that game you 5-days early access. I didn't see anyone complaining there and that had around 250k concurrent players.

Post your armies

not 3d printing

shiggy diggy

Why stop at 3?

the vastly superior asian manufacturers use 99% of their output on gundams instead

Whyyyy? I think that there's a huge untapped market of people who want to play Warhammer and paint minis but are too poor to afford GW prices. Chinks would make a bank if they started selling replacements on AliExpress.

why play tournies and not just with your friends? 3d print an army

he doesn't know

you just have to search for the right keywords

Everybody thinks that until they buy one and realize printers can be extremely annoying to work with. This is why everyone charges a pretty decent amount for 3d prints, it's the setup and space requirements that get you.
Small batch miniatures are always going to cost something. If you want cheap, just buy a barrel of green army dudes or paper cutouts.

There's WH40k Battlesector. It's the closest you'll get from the tabletop game.

yeah at a fraction of the original value unless you have a limited edition and you wait 10+ years until collectors start to care about it

3D printing is the way to go for a new hobby, doesn't matter if it's W40k or just painting stuff

It's just plastic ffs.

meanwhile you pay $80 for a license for a online-only game that you can be banned from or it may simply go offline forever one day (it will)

The university near me provides access to their "development workshop" which has 3d printers (among a bunch of other tools, lathes, cnc's, water jet cutters, etc) for $5 month (+ materials used) and its a pretty sweet deal to just go up there, setup some prints, come back and collect and not need to worry about a lot of the overhead or other bullshit.
I wouldn't be surprised if you can find places near you that allow access to a 3d printer for a small fee so you can do infrequent prints or figure out if its for you.

I saw but they sell at 33% of original price. If it's from China I would only pay 10-15% retail

The minis will stay with you for a long time.
Modern AAA video games stop working once the servers shut down.

it's too bad that resin printing is what's ideal for figurines since fdm is much less painful to fiddle with and more useful for other applications

Used Switch games go for 70-80% of their original price. Retro games can actually appreciate in price if you buy them at the right moment.

I only bought one digital online game in the last year and I only spend $30 on it.

how the FUCK do i get better at painting?? shit is hard

Used Switch games go for 70-80%

impressive, I wouldn't have guessed that.
I'm still mad that my mom threw away the box of my Crash Bandicoot since I could have resold it as a teen for enough money to buy a new game

can I show up at a tournament with a bunch of small cardboard cutouts

doing something again and again makes you better at it, yes

fdm is much less painful to fiddle with and more useful for other applications

You need both printers to get good results, both complement each other

care to explain? I don't understand how you'd use both system to make a model (and especially what would be the advantage in doing so)

Practice. You can learn as much theory as you want but it won't mean shit unless you actually try it and keep trying it until you get the hang of it. But equally you also need to learn that it doesn't need to be perfect and that near enough is good enough for the majority of model painting.

Leftists don't understand economy.

Listen here dumbdumb, you hire people, you have to pay for them, you buy land/rent it out you have to pay for it, that price of the end product produced on that land and by those people make the end product go up in its price. The material might cost little but the people won't do it for free in the west. In the east you might have free access to slave labor but not out here in the west, you have to pay for things.

Why McDonalds manager makes more than the burger flipper at the back or the waiter at the front.

Personally, I would only buy it the cost was 5%. Preferrably 0%, of course. Or maybe even in the negative range? Yeah, come to think of it, they should PAY ME for playing!

HOW ABOUT NETHER, YOU STUPID SHIT?

I don't excuse the cost of toys and shit any more than I excuse 60 dollar games.

Batch paint smaller miniatures first and you get the handle for it real quick it works in layers.

Base layer (biggest color.)

Detail color (Secondary clothing color.)

Fine color (Usually things like accessories, faces and skin that's shown.)

Prepare the mixtures prior painting. Really that simple.

no primer

Heh...

Obviously you can do that as the step 1.

40k players are being scammed and they always ask for more

Do most people printing just get scans of the official models or alternative third-party ones?

That's a very small, specific marketshare of people smart enough not to pay Games Workshop prices, but too stupid to 3d print their own (which is super easy and basically free). You're talking about the exact 87-88 IQ range of people who play 40k.

A solid set up will cost up to $500-800 to get a 3D printer to not breathe in dangerous fumes anon.

Why would you need one at home when any place with decent printer would be happy to print anything from your files for fraction of a cost of GW minis.

I bet you worked a PP for 4 years in a warehouse

yes thats why you ask someone you know who has a 3d printer. or you pay someone you don't really know who has a 3d printer a token sum. or you go to an institution which has 3d printers, like a university or a lab, and use theirs. honestly this shits not hard and it makes me wonder how you people get through life day to day

why chinks won't make their own replacement models for $0.20 a piece

They do, but since Games Workshop also controls the vast majority of places where people actually play 40k (ie their stores), they can and do actually police it

just get a Mars 3 Pro or whatever and keep it in a ventilated room you don't use, or if you aren't autistic about having to see smoothness even when holding the figurines up to your eyeball you can get away with an A1 mini and a .2 nozzle