At Adepticon, I waited up late with everyone else and watched the big reveals from Games Workshop about what their next biggest releases would be. We all knew what we wanted from Games Workshop--Horus Heresy.
It had been rumored for more than a year. Plastic, mass-market Horus Heresy boxed sets. And, the Adepticon reveal show…
I have written before about how I am a wargamer with mental illness--several mental illnesses, in fact, and one of them is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I'm on good medicine now, but there are many things about OCD that are still major problems in my life that I have to be constantly aware of. And a…
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…