Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff

The money will be paid on an equal basis to each member of staff.
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On the one hand, fuck GW, their plastic is too damn expensive for what it is.
On the other hand, respect for paying out profits to the employees. Mad respect, 100%. Wish more companies did that.
- Lots of stuff to bitch about with GW but prices aren’t one of them. Exhibit A is the article you’re responding to, they are responsible with their profits and put them where they should. Exhibit B is they could minimize costs and outsource the entire plastic operation but they still make all models in England. Exhibit C is paying for Art is always morally the correct thing to do, even when mass produced. Finally Exhibit D, fuck GW for promoting incredibly short lifecycles for their games and pushing an almost weekly FOMO event on products that leads a lot more to these profits than just model sales.
- I'm not a 40k player but nowadays you can just 3d print all the models.
  
  It's the painting and detailing that can be quite expensive and time consuming. You obviously don't have to paint your minis, but that's the entire point for a lot of people.
- Trench crusade official units are 3d printed! You buy the files

As a board gamer who generally shops at the same places as 40k players: this does not surprise me in the least. Those goddamn armies are pricey.
- The first I came to even know about the game was checking out a brand new game store with a more D&D-centric name and them currently hosting a game night for 40k so there were like 5 big tables with these gnarly modeled maps with hills and buildings while people were rolling dice, then pulling out tape measures and moving their units.
  Shit looked like Risk but cooler. Then I noticed how expensive it would be to play and just never got into it lol
  
  It's definitely pricey, a couple of reasons:
  I believe the kits are still entirely made in the UK rather than Asia like so many things.
  The quality and designs are arguably the best in the world with techniques far more advanced than most rivals can compete with.
  This doesn't mean they don't get greedy and stick on a huge profit, I believe they heavily rely on staff who love the hobby to run their stores too and pay very poorly.
  
  There are cheaper miniature games out there. Gaslands is Mad Max/ Death Race inspired and you use standard toy cars to play. There's also Turnip28 that's pretty much post apocalyptic Napoleonic Wars. There are cheap Napoleon era miniatures people modify for it, but I've also seen some goofier builds, like using toys and actual vegetables. I will say I haven't really played either, but they are the two miniature games I often consider getting into.
  
  It is like risk but cooler! And honestly you don’t need a 2k point meta army to start with. For the price of two or three $60 video games (guess I have to preface that now) you can have enough models for you and a friend to have an absolute blast.
- I don't think it has anything to do with their physical media, and everything to do with their successful video games sales over the past few years.

While that's great, it also speaks volumes when taken in context with their customer-hostile business practices.
- Is it customer hostile? I thought it was just licencing-hostile, fucking over others with their IPS left and right.
  I don't know much about them.
  
  In the sense that you're going to overpay for editions and minis that they're constantly updating to squeeze more money out of you while having a genuinely good but expensive paint catalogue ruined by paint pots designed to waste paint, yes.
  In the sense that it's pure entertainment and no one and nothing is making you buy them despite all that, no.
  Now, if we want to talk about how they're essentially monetizing fascist rhetoric and the "satire" died decades ago that's a whole new ballgame.
  
  They used to give out their IP to shitty mobile games for pennies. Then they went after actual creators who made something amazing and gated them behind a subscription service.

They sell metric fucktons of $50+ boxes of $0.15 worth of plastic. And $20 bottles of paint. They should be able to throw their employees a generous bone.

I dunno if there is a subculture of printing the models at home. I would think resin printers would have more than enough resolution to make good miniatures. Is that frowned upon? There is no reason to buy overpriced licensed shit.
- Oh there is absolutely a group that prints their own, and before that there were re-molds that were made based on the real ones.
  From what I understand, (friends play) they aren't allowed in "official" sponsored matches, so if you really want to compete big you have to have real armies. But also they have printed one of those $800 models because most people don't have the cash to throw at stuff like that.
  So I'm sure there are some diehard people that only think official models should be used but it doesn't seem common.
- Can confirm, buddy with a resin printer is slowly hooking me up with an Adeptus Mechanicus army and he prints shit for his friends too. Recasts are likely in-between price-wise but pretty solid quality.

That’s a crazy good bonus. Most I ever received was 2 grand.
- I did the math. If headcount didn't change in the last 12 months then the bonus each employee will receive will be ~$9152.54.
  
  10k is just fine. 18k is better, but no one complains about 10k :)
  
  The article disagrees, but idk what staffing numbers are right
  
  It said in the article that it’s 18 grand American per employee I thought

If I were to play again, I'd find some drawn units, print them, laminate them, and stick them in the little circular stands with the slot. No way I'd spend that much money again, I barely broke even selling my old stuff.
- Heretic!
  
  I care not. Grovel before your Corpse God!

That is nice and i dont even like wh40k

I don't play board games like warhammer but if I did I would happily pay the premium I see on those figurines if it means this happens.