This being iPad exclusive is somewhat annoying, as I'd prefer to get it on an android tablet (as they're cheaper), but it's a step in the right direction for GW.

 

Trust them to use Apple as the launch platform.

Otherwise, its about time, they have been lagging behind for a while now.

Alice

 

It's not like the majority of the planet owns an apple device

 

How much do they cost? I couldn't find the price.

Anyway I guess that's fine as long as they never decide to exclusively publish digitally, I like my hardback books (also I don't have an iPad )

 

Yah thats what I was getting at, it also is a means for them to add in new content. The Stormtalon is in the iPad Codex.

 

If they stick to just the i@#! for a format then they will loose a LOT of players. I know that in my gaming community they would loose over 90%

 

Jeez, there really is no pleasing some people huh?

They don't have any digital content, its in the wrong format, price increases, poor quality, bad rules, enviromental damage, famine, plague, disease etc etc.

Its a hobby/modelling company that specialises in making plastic men for us to paint and play with, if you all want to stop playing because they put stuff in a certain format that you don't have or like, well, have a nice day.

Seriously, why would you quit because they favour apple for their digital content, alot of people have and use apple, and who says they'll never use other formats?

Even if they don't, people will more than likely convert and circulate them into compatable formats.

Relax buddy and take a deep breath.

I don't see any issue with £24 for the digital SM Codex, compared to £24 for a fucking 4 year old book in paper format...

Equally fucking ridiculous prices. There's no VAT on books, no fucking excuse for the price rise.

This however annoys me no end. No production costs should equal a cheaper price right? Wrong.

I hate the fact e-reader companies are doing this shit, and getting together to keep prices high.

I hope the government tears them a new one in the lawsuit filed against them in the U.S

 

Good idea, pity about the format. Kindle version codex (perhaps without a lot of hte extra art) would be pretty damn good.

 

Ugh, I've wanted an Ipad since the things came out, but I haven't had the cash for one (woe is me, the college student, whose monthly income is...well... yeah.)... and this just is one more thing that I'd love to have an ipad for.

 

^My relationship with tablets other than the iPad^

How I feel about this announcement on the other hand...

GW does a lot of things that put me off. But hell, obviously I play Warhammer.

Apple is, as far as I'm concerned, more deserving of censorship than profanity or pornography. This is unsettling for me, as GW, someone who only annoyed me up to this point and had a core product I enjoy, has formed an unholy alliance with a company that I fully expect to announce a merger with the Gods of Chaos any day now.

Disclaimer: Hyperbole

If they made it available for other tablets I would be less horrified. Optimally, I'd love to see them make straight PDFs of their books, although this would be redundant with what's already lurking in the corners of the internet...

 

i also wish that it wasnt exclusively for the ipad/stuffs.

 

They look good and I'm liking this move. I can't see them going exclusively digital, at least not until the whole world is exclusively digital, and that is many centuries in the future (or not, only time will tell and I will be long dead...)

haha, even in the 40k universe they have libraries full of books...

 

I can see what they've done, using iTunes is one of the more secure ways to go digital but it's not 100% secure, if they release all the dex's on there people only need to carry one item which is already smaller a codex and they'll have them all with them rather than carrying a bag full of books.

I like it personaly

 

has anyone else noticed that hte two dudes in the pic are floating

anyway, a good move by GW, but only ipad

 

42????? 42 freaking DOLLARS??? They want to charge me $42 for a product that costs them exactly $0 to produce other than the Apple commission per sale and paying a graphic artist to make the file?

That isn't just stupid and greedy it's wildly incompetent. People are capable of counting, if they weren't willing to buy the paper copy because it was too expensive they aren't going to spend more on a digital one. The people who have the disposable income to buy an iPad aren't going to spend 20% of what it cost to buy the damn thing on a book they already probably have a PDF dealing with.

 

I was interested, until I got to the part where it mentioned the ipad... I never quite got why anyone would want a ipad in the first place, so seeing GWS making ipad exclusive stuff is a bit of a let down, to be honest.

Guess i'll have to wait untill they make non-ipad exclusive digital stuff...

 

I like the move by GW to go digital, but why just ipad...there's about 4 or 5 such devices in my household and they're all bloody Tablets:angry:

 

Wow, lot of really diehard fanboyism in here...

Anyway, iPad makes sense as it is a platform with basically one format to orry about, one screen ratio, and one distribution channel. A lot of mobile stuff starts on iPhone/iPad only as it is cheaper to develop. The problem with developing for Android (both phoen and tablet) is the really large number of different handsets and subversions of the OS. Both handset makers and even individual networks customise elements of Android to their devices, making for a dizzing arrat of possible devices you might end up needing something to run on. For Apple it is considerable simpler.

This is basically an aspect of the old apple versus x86 argument. You can go for a closed ecosystem where everything is made my one manufacturer and get homogeneity leading to (generally) higher ease of use and better integration but at a higher price and with less user choice. Or you choose an open ecosystem which si lower price and has more user choice but leads to much more complexity for users and developers to handle.

What this means now is economically ya developer can give you a fixed price for developing for iPad, plus you know how to sell the product to people. Thats a lot harder on Android for now, so people tend to start with iOS then expand to Android if it is popular.

Also, is seems figures from March show Apple has 73% of the tablet market, which makes them the best to start with economically. If you were targeting smartphones not tablets then you'd really need to pay attention to Android, and maybe in fact smartphone editions of codexes, reformatted to be easily usable on the move would be a good idea, but that is a different product that requires new layout. Moving from paper to iPad is a relatively simple design task.

Kindle makes less sense to me, as only the kindle fire has colour graphics and the stuff they are releasing is the graphics heavy stuff not the text heavy BL stuff (which already runs fine on Kindle anyway).

I guess if this is popular you may see Android version soon. For Android fans, this means you want the iPad owners to get buying to show the concept is popular!

[I use a windows pc for gaming and media, a mac laptop for work and a raspberry pi running Linux as a media centre, fanboyism is pointless]

 

Thing is apple market share is only high because they were the only one doing tablets, there share is being eroded very quickly and by android, samsung will eventually become dominant in the tablet arena too and android will be the OS of choice across phones and and tablets and likely pc's at some point. GW really should have both formats available and should be thinking a kindle version too.
Plus outside of the states i dont think Ipads are that popular, i think i have seen 2 in the last 12 months and both people looked really paranoid to be using them in public,where as i see hundreds of people using kindles and android devices.
its a step in the right direction but it should be accross all formats.

 

I guess anyone who wants a digital copy and doesn't like wasting money on apple products will have to pirate them.

 

I am liking this move. A bit annoyed that it is not available on the iPhone, but hey, I will be getting a new iPad this summer anyways, so whatever.

 

I would like this move, but there are two main reasons why I don't.

a) I don't have an Ipad, and unless I get a job, won't be getting one anytime soon.
b) The Space Marine Codex Is the same price as the paperback book, which is £24.99. Couldn't they at least lower it down a couple of £'s - otherwise People will most likely stick with their physical copies.

 

It's a move in the right direction definitely but I'm not rushing out to go and buy an iPad. To me the name sounds too much like it's for the busy woman on the go at the wrong time of the month.

I find it funny with all the apple rage though, I used to really hate apple products until I bought an iPod touch and I find it much better than any of the alternatives even to the point where it's better than a lot of smartphones just without the calling facility and 3G (although the 3G model is out now) The only thing I really hate about apple is iTunes. It's a horrible program that doesn't do anything I want it to and decides by itself what it wants to sync to my iPod meaning if there's something I don't want on it I have to delete it from the library and just unticking it in the sync area doesn't work for some reason. Anyway, slight digression

If it was available for iPod touch/iPhone then it'd be awesome and obviously making it available to android users will probably come with time. Remember GW are all about grabbing money so releasing it on as many platforms as they can to maximise their profit is an almost certainty in time. They do really need to reduce the cost of the books in the app though, paying more for a copy that can run out of battery is ridiculous.

Edit: To be honest regarding price, it makes sense for them to charge more if they'll be providing updates BUT this can piss off the people that only have paper copies as they wont have the latest goodies. Plus the 360 degree viewer on the SM codex seems fun but gimmiky and overall useless and just there to force the price up.

 

Even though I love they are going digital, I only have a Kindle and won't be getting an Ipad any time soon, so it's a shame but at least they are heading in the right direction.

 

Well this sounds rather interesting that they have finally decided to do this. I just hope for that now this means that they will update the codex's more often in the digital format, However this kinda puts people with the book at a disadvantage so im not sold on that. The other thing I dislike is that it is only available on the Ipad and im not a fan of apple products.

 

Well I don't like the fact that it's JUST on the Ipad but I guess my daughter can kiss hers goodbye.

 

I'm crazy disapointed by this, I have an IPAD and when I saw the annoucement, went straight onto IBooks to check them out.

£24 for the space marine codex. Are you joking? Why would I buy that? Seriously? What on earth would make me pay the exact same amount as the physical copy for the digital one. I mean, what??

The rest of them are just overpriced white dwarf articles. Seriously, the deathknell is just the painting guide from white dwarf and the gaming article from white dwarf, but for £2.50 or so.

The scrolls of binding? Just that, just the same articles from the white dwarf but at .69p. Come on! What the hell seriously???

Pathetic.

And this is coming from someone who normally thinks that the majority of people who whine and complain about GW are pathetic and need to get some perspective.

This though, I can't understand, perhaps there is someone with experiance about the move into digital that can explain these prices?

 

I don't see any issue with £24 for the digital SM Codex, compared to £24 for a fucking 4 year old book in paper format...

Equally fucking ridiculous prices. There's no VAT on books, no fucking excuse for the price rise.