i've got this old wacom tablet (intuos 4, seems to be ~2009?) that i got from work when they moved offices a while ago, but the pen is missing, so i looked up replacements and basically the only option seems to be to buy them new for £60. used ones aren't much cheaper and there are no third party alternatives. is that really how it is with these things
Been looking into this a bit more and it's actually considerably cheaper to buy a used intuos 4 tablet + pen set than it is to buy the pen on its own. So the tablet literally has negative value
@lion yes :( sorry
@lion They're model-locked too, which sucks.
@vikxin yeah i noticed you can get cheaper pens for the current models of intuos but of course they're not compatible with the old ones
@lion Yeah, as I recall, Wacom actually has a patent on the way their pens work.
They do happen to be exceptional, though. >.<
I used an Intuos 4 and found it fantastic - they had just upgraded to the Intuos 5 when I finally bought my own, and I'm still using that one today! Really solid investment, if you can get the use out of it!
my vague attempts at art up until this point have been using a huion tablet & i think that whole thing only cost £60 lol