http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k

Funny, but probably not entirely suitable for a forum kids can access.

Seems like someone tried too hard to be funny and inappropriate.

My take-aways...

1. GW charges a lot for their product

2. Writer hates space marines

3. Writer sees racism everywhere...even where it isn't. (Orcs have a cockney'd accent)

4. Writer is obsessed with finding out if people working in game stores have girlfriends.

5. GW staff doesn't leave you alone in the store or like to tell you the price of something.

That pretty much sums it up.

Certainly number 5 on your list is my biggest personal pet hate about GW stores.

I only go in the places to buy the occasional book (whether novels or codexes or more rarely the fantastic Forge World hardbacks), but it really bugs me that I know I'm going to be pestered by the staff. A really bad policy imo, I'd go in to browse much more frequently than I do if they'd just wait to be asked if I need anything.

Adam France said:

Oddly enough, if you did go in more often, they're more likely to stop pestering. Wargaming is a niche hobby, and I'd estimate that a majority of people who walk through the door have little to no idea about it... which means staff actively engaging them is more beneficial to them than, say, random passers-by walking in, looking around, and leaving confused and none-the-wiser. You don't go in frequently, so you're not known to the staff, so they've got no reason to assume the knowledge you have. 'Regulars' - whether because they buy frequently, they game there regularly, or just because they're known to the staff for other reasons (for example, in my case, many of my friends have been or currently are GW staffers, and a couple of them are in my RP group) invariably tend not to be 'pestered'.

Of course, the precise details vary from store to store. I've never had staff in any store (whether newcomers to my local store, or if I've popped into a different GW elsewhere) push the matter once I make it known that I know what I'm looking at, but I've heard that the US stores tend to be far, far worse, and the staff far, far pushier in that regard to the UK ones.

Oh- ****. I didn't evevn thing that little kids come on here. My bad. That sight is funny though, but yeah sometimes it is just crude or stupid.

Interesting to note that the children are probably the ones who would be most amused by it. The viewpoints of adults and children almost always differ. It's a sad fact that adults try to censor and control everything children find the most fun because "adults" find it to be "inappropriate and crude" when that sentence just sums up children in general.

Not to turn this into a debate over what is right and wrong or how to define adolescence, though. Oops.

LeBlanc13 said:

QFT.

Orks are using ebonics? I think that the writer of that piece doesn't know what ebonics are if he thinks Orks speak like that. Orks are English Football Hooligans... not Black Gang-Bangers.

BYE

N0-1_H3r3 said:

So, like Telemarketers. Or those people that work at the kiosks in the malls. I greatly dislike pushy people who feel the need to get in someone's face to make a sale. Of course, there are no GW stores in my state anymore. And even if there were, I'd still stick to my FLGS anyway. They like me there; or, at the very least, pretend to like me.

-=Brother Praetus=-

well i thought it was funny as @*##@

And it was true also - GW charge a lot for a piece of plastic.

Back in the day of "Lead Figures" GW said we are revolutionising the market with new plastic figures. This would be cheaper then making metal minitures.

What bollox that was - charging 3 times as much for bits of plastic - shocking.

Also the main reason they are losing money hand over fist is that you can buy pre-painted minitures for other games at 1/4 the price of GW figs. Ah well

To be fair, the Warp can make your balls explode.