I think some nuance is needed here. I have a lot of thoughts.
It has come to light (or at least, there have been claims made on Twitter and Reddit) that Games Workshop is paying its employees very low wages. This conversation started with a man named James M Hewitt (@lagoon83) who claims that he worked…
There has been a lot of talk about Games Workshops FOMO strategy for new product releases. Not only have they been doing this strategy for several years, but it seems to be accelerating: more products coming faster--and disappearing faster. Hence the fear of missing out.
Why does Games Workshop's FOMO strategy work? The…
We've all heard the complaints time and time again: Warhammer is too expensive--Games Workshop is ripping us off!
But are they really? Is the cost of Warhammer reasonable, or is it truly a money grab?
Why Is Warhammer So Expensive?
There are three reasons why Warhammer models cost so…
Long before the days of Indomitus and Cursed City, there was the Disney Vault. Disney released movies, left them in theaters for a little while, held them back, then opened up the Disney Vault for a limited time in which they sold those movies on VHS and DVD, always with the fear that soon the…
I work in online marketing, and today I got a bee in my bonnet about what the data would say if I started plugging Games Workshop and its many properties into the various SEO and Google tools that are available. Chiefly for this project I used Google Trends, Moz, Ubersuggest, and Yahoo Finance. I'll explain…
Games Workshop has a report titled "Our Business Model" on their Investor Relations page, and I, as an MBA who works professionally in marketing (and who has played Warhammer for nearly 30 years) thought it would be interesting to review it, make comments on it, and respond to it. I'm going to be reproducing it…