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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 5871177" data-attributes="member: 55178">I had always assumed that it was a Games Workshop mandate, but I've been in two GW stores where a person was turned away from a table because his miniatures weren't painted well enough.I can understand a person who has spent weekends on end agonizing over making their army perfect being reluctant to play against someone who just hit their miniatures with a coat of primer and expects that to be good enough.In the same vein, I refused to play a game of Bloodbowl against someone who had printed the miniatures they wanted out onto card stock.  It's the same as playing a game of magic against someone who has a deck full of proxy cards.  Part of the game is buying all the bits and pieces, making them shiny, and showing them off against someone else's shiny bits and pieces.But these weren't guys with unpainted, or non-GW minis, they were just lousy painters.  Neither instance was an event or tournament or anything, just open play.  They were chided, told to learn how to paint correctly, and people refused to let them play.Looking back on it now, I'm guessing it probably wasn't "company" policy, but we were certainly lead to believe that it was.Here in Pittsburgh, the real death blow was when WOTC announced the jump to 4th.  Timed almost perfectly with the start of the Christmas sales, 4 game stores closed almost over night, and the survivors have been pretty much struggling ever since.</blockquote>

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