Scalpers are a menace in quite a lot of hobbies, not simply within the realm of gaming {hardware} and paraphernalia. Nonetheless, they have been particularly dangerous right here lately. Flipping phantom graphics playing cards, snapping up particular editions, and ruining cute reveals meant for kids. Video games Workshop, the corporate behind Warhammer and Warhammer 40k, are definitely no exception to this rule: If you wish to launch a factor, scalpers’ll in all probability wreck it.
The factor in query this time is the particular version of Siege of Terra: Period of Wreck, which is the newest instalment within the Horus Heresy (now the Siege of Terra) books. Video games Workshop opened up pre-orders by way of a queue system on its web site, designed to cease scalpers armed with armies of bots spoiling the entire thing.
Then scalpers armed with armies of bots spoiled the entire thing. On the identical day, Video games Workshop hit the panic button and took its total web site all the way down to stem the tide (thanks, Wargamer). As an official submit on the corporate’s Fb reads:
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“You may need seen that we have paused Warhammer.com for a brief interval—this is why:
“Right now we launched our pre-order for the much-anticipated particular version of Siege of Terra: Period of Wreck anthology. Sadly, scalpers tried to make use of bots to bypass our regular safeguards.”
The bots, which the submit later calls an “abominable intelligence if there ever was one”—evaluating these bots to the Silica Animus which is, and I imply this lovingly, a dunk that solely folks whose bedrooms odor of mini paint will get—compelled Video games Workshop to drag the plug.
“We’re pausing the launch of Period of Wreck and have eliminated it from Warhammer.com in the interim. Don’t fret, it is nonetheless coming—we’re simply completely decided that actual followers get it. All misguided orders are being purged. That is our primary precedence.”
Followers trying to get a leather-bound anthology can as a substitute join an emailing record to search out out when “the re-launch occurs”.
The Horus Heresy is certainly one of Video games Workshop’s most prolific sequence, with over 60(!) books comprising the whole saga. This one specifically’s an anthology, with tales from an entire regiment of prior authors featured within the Horus Heresy—and it is slated to come back out in July. Whether or not anybody’ll have the ability to get their palms on a particular version, although, solely the Omnissiah is aware of.
