You’ve got to be kidding me…
This hobby is just becoming too expensive for me and gw just won’t meet me half way. A $50 codex book is a novelty thing which is cool; it’s not some value. I don’t feel the same for this app. I was really hoping that this app would allow me to play the game on a bit more of a budget.
Just make the app free. I know you don’t want to but you’re losing so much potential customers who already pay you hundreds for one army and paint and glue and decorations and terrain. If I’m being really honest here, I’m just a little sick of being bleed dry.
Here’s a great idea. Keep the subscription, BUT include a subscription to warhammer plus so we can watch warhammer shows. And for the love of Pete, have a rewards system worth using.Aside from Games Workshop’s greed, app is great!
I loved using this app for army building and for playing games of warhammer, it was genuinely the best tool they had offered as you had access to all of the rules at a moments notice and could build armies on the fly, which made games way more fun because it streamlined the process so much. But the monthly subscription that you need to make more than 3 lists + all the money you spend on their miniatures isnt enough for Games Workshop, in order to access ANY army rules, you have to own the $60 codex for that army (which used to be almost worth the price because of all the lore and character descriptions, but is now just a $60 rulebook for each army), effectively making it so that using this tool means you have to spend an additional $60 PER army. Absolutely atrocious business model from Games Workshop that only seems to be getting worse with time. I can only hope they come to respect their fanbase and customers within my lifetime, but that seems unlikely at this point.Unoptimized for New Players
The only *real* complaint I have with this app is that it lumps all of your unit’s wargear selections into one card, making it so that my two units of Cadian Shock Troops share a profile. This forces me to sift through compounded lines of text to find the weapon I’m using, and is somewhat inconvenient as a learner and newcomer to 40K.
In addition, the Command Bunker cards don’t show how many of the weapons are in the squad itself, so I have to keep multiple mental notes of how many weapons are in each of my units, alongside strategizing and keeping track of the many stratagems at my disposal. This is yet another hurdle for new players like me, as I tend to spend a very long time making sure I’m not using too many or too little of one weapon selection.
So if those are my only two grievances, then why the two stars? It’s because the official Warhammer 40K App is trumped by BattleScribe, a free app that does all of the things mentioned above and more, all the while having the gall to push a horrible business model that is very obviously not popular.