"Figure prices" Topic

I have to admit to having grown complacent with companies like reaper producing large minis quite inexpensively. A recent kickstarter from a company that I like very much has man sized resin minis for 5GBP and larger minis for 70GBP.

Is there a price point where people just "nope" and move on? I am in this case am avoiding Black seas for a similar reason

I get what you mean about Black Seas. OG shipyard can set you up just as well for less ducets at 1/300. Sails of Glory for less at 1000 scale. I cast about to find a less costly 700 scale alternative and found another maker with comparable detail and nearly identical pricing. I wonder if Warlord figured that this other 700 scale maker had floated the market and set the price.

I'm sure we all have "nope" points re what we want to farm for this or another game project. The market will set the price, but the customer decides on value.

In a market economy the market sets the price. Everything is only worth what someone will pay for it.

Low supply and high demand will bring a higher price.

If a company can make money selling a $70 USD figure, then they will.

Could they make more money selling it for $50 USD, or $20 USD?

Who knows. Games can be very niche – and then some games take off for no easily explicable reason.

I'm really curious to see how the new OG/Oz line is received.

Good question. I'm not sure where my "nope" point would be if someone had exactly the figure I wanted or needed and no such figure could be had otherwise. But I'm filling out existing armies rather than starting new stuff, and generally I place the cheaper order first. The guy with the most expensive castings could have a long wait. Wait, I can tell you! Some of the new Star Wars stuff got up to $7 USD a figure and I just flat refused.

Truth is though, scale is more of a problem. If my army started as 25mm, for instance, I can maybe get away with a 28mm not in the same unit--but 32mm is a breakpoint, and I've walked away from some very nice figures because they'd involve scrapping entire armies and starting over. This is even worse if the fellow pushing the 32's isn't offering a full line, which is not uncommon.

There seems to be a dual standard for historical vs fantasy figures. For historical, you typically buy a lot of figures, and that becomes price sensitive, but the company sells a lot of figures

For fantasy, I agree, there a lots of seriously expensive figures out there, and Reaper in general are inexpensive and the bones figures (slightly less detail) are really inexpensive. In a bones kickstarter, there are amazing prices

So I don't really know what fantasy figure collectors do with their figures, paint them to really high standards
? A game of D&D doesn't need that many figures …

John