For those of you who don't read the BBC site.

An article today - with no shortage of comments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17274186

Feel free to post your comment, not often "we" get this exposure !!!! GW will most definitely be reading.

Yeah, I saw it. It's a shame LotR only got mentioned once.

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All I can say is:

a) Wow, for those of you not British, this is the number one news programme and TV company, so to offer up a page on their website to a GW article will certainly give it some attention, it will get millions of hits per day.

b) For all that attention, the article essentially starts with a positive fan's message, then resorts to our favourite subject, PRICES, overall it is very negative and GW will sure not be pleased with some of the quotes put in it.

The article claims they do not do press interviews, which gives a bad public image for any company. However, they then manage to garner a quote from a man high up, who says that exploiting young children is against all their company stands for...Pah...anyone who's been into a GW store and has been shoved in has seen someone shoved into a demo game and shown the 'Blue Spezz Mareenz' will know that their statement is complete b*****ks.

However, the writer then goes as far as to, from what i can see, deliberately mis-interpret another quote by saying that even this manager states the game has become less interesting, when the person in question is actually highlighting one of the changes which came about when GW switched their focus from rulesets to models...ages ago.

All in all then, quite a kick in the teeth for GW and I am sure they will be pretty angry with the reporter in question, as now millions of people will get an if not false, but definately negative idea about what this company has brought to tabletop wargaming.

No-one can say they didn't have it coming.

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Now that certainly was a surprise. I didn't realise the media realised GW existed. I am English, and I am familiar with the BBC, my sister has been on a BBC' Raven. This article does come as a surprise. Highlordell has summed up most of what that was about, as the BBC are payed for by us, I realise that the standpoint the BBC takes is one in which they must try to appeal to the majority (hence the surprise it was even mentioned), and this is the reason for which the BBC has portrayed GW this way, and that they have taken quotes from different people including the price complaint person, the girl who plays with her dad, the game developer and the management person. Anyway, nice attention, I have forgotten what else I was about to say, so I may edit this post later.

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The BBC is representative of noone but themselves. They don't serve or represent the public, it manipulates it. We pay for them? Yes, and they're laughing all the the way to the bank.

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Sirry, I did not mean to imply that the BBC cared about its viewers I meant only that they will focus on many areas of the public so as to draw attention to different things, though we all know that they have their own agenda. It's easy to see this in how the BBC represent anything; they will portray anything and anyone in whatever way they want to.

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I like this quote that someone posted in the comments section:

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence." - C. S. Lewis.

It's great that so many people are going to see this article, and i think it's good they mention GW's prices to give a realistic picture.

wow, that was a surprise, the bbc realising games workshop is out there, and some of the descriptions of the soldiers are quite good, but games workshop might not be too happy about the pricing being made.

however, its not all negative, especially consideing some article s by the bbc about some companys when they exploit people, this isnt too bad, also nice to see it got a lot of comments

Now why isn't there an article for 10 yrs LOTR?

Or why is there a whole lot of b^llsh^t about 100 yrs Titanic and not a word about 200 yrs Borodino?

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