A Change of Heart?

So, I just stumbled upon something I didn't expect I'd ever see, and it gives me hope that Games Workshop can pull themselves together and possibly even stop the meteoric decent of their stock prices since the release of Age of Sigmar.  And it's even an AoS line of products.

Now, lately, if I've been getting my weekly dose of White Dwarf, it's been in the WD app, but it's been on the fritz lately, and I'm not gonna pay for something that doesn't work when it's supposed to.  So I haven't read White Dwarf, or the list of this week's new releases.  So imagine my surprise this morning when I log onto my computer, load up the email GW has sent me today, and down at the bottom of this page is a link to the new Storm of Sigmar box coming out in four days.  I look at it and I'm not sure what it is.  Age of Sigmar already has a starter set,  then I happened to look at the price tag.  $33.  My mouth dropped.  Thirty three dollars for a starter set from Games Workshop?  I've never paid less than a hundred. 

So I clicked on the picture to find out more.  Sure enough, it's real.  And with it, two beginning paint sets for fifteen dollars each, one for the Stormcast Eternals in the box, one for the Khorne Bloodbound.  There were also expansion boxes, or fillers if you will, for fifteen dollars as well.  These fillers are just repeats of minis in the Storm of Sigmar box, but hey, three Storcast Eternal Liberators for only fifteen is a huge savings over the usual set.

And what these little boxes really show is that Games Workshop is seriously trying to sell their game.  Now, I complained lately that the Generals Handbook seemed like too little, too late, but with a price of entry that is waaay easier to swallow, these things all together give me a glimmer of hope that GW might be able to turn AoS into something decent to play, that people won't feel ripped off by.  Now if only they can retcon and repair some of the awful back story (I'm looking at you, Seraphon)!.