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Unfortunately, the wife would never let me spend $100 on minis right now, so I'll just have to sit and drool about the Sergeant mini. If any non-Marine player gets one and would like to trade it for something else, drop me a line!
and another thing is that the events section is no longer updated on a regular basis... the GW US store events for september werent even put up on the website until the second week of september!!!
I think the new site is far supperior to the old one. It is so much cleaner and better structured than the old pages. Of course it is sad to loose so much content but I really hope, that they will bring back all that stuff sooner or later.
I hope they will switch the german pages to the new system soon. While we do have the same shop as the "old" UK pages, our content sites are just such a bunch of old looking, outdated and inconsistent "things"...
The loss of content will be sad, but I've found a lot of old content on the new US site. None of the Black Gobbo stuff though, and I liked that better than anything!
To be fair, I had stopped "using" it anyway. The death of the bitz range neutered the online store, which is what this really is, so I can't see me using the site any time in the future. Even if I were, the clunky, unintuitive layout would put me off.
"My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!"
"no, no, no. Up and Atom."
"up und at dem."
I found a pic of an ork flash gitz from the new site on google image search...but it's not anywhere on the new GW site...although the model has been photographed in the same style as the new 'how-to-build-orks' images.
I wonder who comissioned this website redesign?
It's not human friendly.
It's not google bot friendly.
Who is it intended for?
And why hasn't google penalised GW for using black hat SEO by redirecting all clicks to their portal page (which is probably loaded with cloaked keywords)!?
All it is now is a massive online store with promotional stuff to push different products cloaked as content. It's a sad day.
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Phil
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I miss the "exploded" feature of the old sites that allowed you to see what sprues and bits came with a particular kit or mini blister. Hope it's not a dead horse issue.
The navigation is pretty good once you get used to it. I still can't figure out how they determine which category an article belongs in. It takes me three guesses to find the space marine chapter gallery everytime.
That is what White Dwarf is for.
Lucky us.
Also, what about all the links posted in white dwarf? The only link I ever see is ca.games-workshop.com, and this does me absouloutely nothing to help find the article/coverage.
The mini that they are giving away is from the white dwarf subscription in the uk, so its nothing new (i.e. Ebay time).
more it goes more GW is going Corporate , less gaming and it's all but buy buy buy.. so thats the reason bits are gone and also the conversions showing how build stuff was kind of saying don't buy from us but build it yourself. the bad thing in all of this is that most stock holders are not players..it is one of the major reason we are ignored by the company.
they will keep producing books and minis and i suspect that it will be on a bi-monthly regular basis to keep us buying which i'm pleased of but in the end will it benefit the game.. so far new releases didn't change much, it's mostly FW ideas or old ones.
for the Exclusive mini.. well i could build one out of plastic marine parts so not that exclusive for me, plus it's a Marine again..heck i'd would have put somthing so really players would have gone crazy like a new Necron Warrior, Dark Eldar Sybarite, a Long Coat IG Sergeant, a plastic Meganob, Plastic Sister or even a GK
stuff that players really ask for...
Using the opportunities that the new web 2.0 offers to just have a new e-commerce is an example of how to waste time, resources and good moeny. This is an old fashioned way of doing business.
Wonder how many access does Bols weekly more than Gw's site.
Just imagine how nice would it be games-workshop.com with Bols as homepage :/
1.There aren't nearly as many decent hobby articles.
2.All it is now is a fancy online store.
3.As an online store it's not that good a format.
4.It's slower than it used to be.
I declare this piece of news the worst I have heard all day and the new website CRAP!
Think about it newbies seeing that as the website, hardly impresive.
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