Games Workshop 2014-2015 Annual Report

[Fitz]

AoS is a strange on to consider. Was chatting to Mark at Hobby Hut earlier when I was picking up some paints. He was surprised his AoS boxes haven't gone, I wasn't because the game without fixing is un-playable. UK Warhammer community is un-surprisingly trying to fix the game, but in its current state I give it 6-12 months, in that scene. Its not being played in stores, with reports being 40k is still the game played by their target market (I know kids are fickle but given a game with Space Marines, or a game with pseudo-Space Marines that their friends haven't got, which one was really going to win.)
With a fix AoS could save their ass, without its another nail in their coffin of dominance.

Interesting that retail sales are down, seeing as they shut up a huge amount of international stores. Hmmmm I wonder if lack of stores, hinders sales. Internet sales are up, during a period in which you could only get their items via the internet. Friday pre-orders moved to Saturday because, by the times the stores (which are not selling as much,) opened on a Saturday the entire stock had sold, and staff were having to promote a product that wouldn't be available. IN twelve months time, this could reverse, with internet sales declining and store sales increasing.

I think if they released AoS as a standalone (ala space huk) and set it before (current) events. They would've made a mint.