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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hardhead" data-source="post: 1349515" data-attributes="member: 2844">I posted a short reply in the boycott thread, but here's another, mainly because I wanted to see the result of the poll above. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm concerned about the D&D Minis price hike.  While I'm not surprised it increased, I'm surprised it increased by 30%.  WotC's price increases in it's other lines haven't been nearly so drastic.See, while I'm not going to scream "boycott" (mainly because the ineffectiveness of a internet-based boycott), I do plan to scale back my purchases dramatically.  I'm the kind of guy that likes to "catch 'em all".  I don't usually get into hobbies casually.  Collecting D&D Minis has been a budget stretch for me (a college student), and I simply can't afford to spend 30% more on it.  And I know that if I keep buying them, I'll obsesively collect them all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Therefore, I must stop!  I'll probably just buy the odd single now.I'm concerned that this might be a bad move for WotC.  I can see a scenerio where people scale back purchases, or go with Mage Knight instead (which has the handy clicky bases).And yes, I know that the paint jobs and sculpting will improve, but I don't think that justifies the price increase.  If you look at the early MK figures, they were ugly.  The new ones are a hojillion times better, and without a 30% price hike.  The sucess of MK was enough to fuel the better molds alone.Where I play D&D Minis, 90% of the people there are playing a clix-base game.  D&D Minis, besides the D&D name, had only the price point going for it.  That was it's one advantage over MK, which had moving parts and better sculpts.  Now, D&D Minis no longer has the price advantage.  And the minis may now have equivalent sculpts and/or paint jobs (but that's still conjecture at this point).Anyway, just wanted to say that.</blockquote>

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