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I got into WH40k when the Rogue Trader hard cover was still fresh on the shelf. I'd recently started to seriously paint miniatures for RPG use, and the stuff they were doing in Rogue Trader was just fantastic. I didn't seriously start to play until the advent of the red book (can't remember the title, though I still have it. It had the Imperial Guard list, and I'm an Impy Guard nut).
I also played Warhammer fantasy and have owned and sold tens of thousands of dollars in lead/pewter. For a while, in college, I painted 'professionally', and by this I mean I ran a mail order custom army painting business and paid my bills solely off the income from it.
I had a blast wargaming, but was more of a painter/modeller than an avid wargamer.
As to the inflation of power in GW games, it's been that way forever, and they've not 'become' money oriented, they've been that way for better than 15 years. They still do make some of the best lead (pewter, feh) in the business though. I just wish they'd put out the stunning variety they had in the late 80's. You could pick any standard foot unit, make a block of 20 and have every miniature in a different pose from the factory. It was awesome.
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