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<blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 4750808" data-attributes="member: 5445"><p>Now that is how a game store lost my patronage, as they moved to a larger space, advertising what would be more playing space and display space, only to fill most of the store up with bulky, wide-display board game items and exiling the role-playing game books to a library-style shelf display that only showed spines and crammed them into a fractional portion of their store. Prior to this moment and move, this was a store that had a fairly equal display of all their games, be it board, role-playing, collectible card game, or what not, yet after the move I felt as if they did not want my business anymore.</p><p></p><p>Thus, they lost my business and that was their fault, not that of PDFs or an online store. While I prefer to be a patron of a local game store, specifically a friendly one, it is not something I owe them, but something that they have to earn from me. </p><p></p><p>When I first moved to Boise, back around 1996 or so, Dark Horse Comics and Games earned my loyalty, through the moves, including the one out of town a bit, and until the store transitioned away from being a store front place. The owner was a solid, gregarious guy who loved talking about the industry and offered nice member serves and other things that earned loyalty. He also got that PDFs were PDFs and books were books, or seemed to, but he also knew that it was up to him to lose customers, nobody else.</p><p></p><p>While I might do it differently than some folks, I don't go to game stores to play my game, I go there to get products, talk game talk, and sometimes meet folk, sometimes even participate in an event. That's it. The only time that I ever played in a game store, not counting Free RPG Day, is when I was a member of White Wolf's demo team, starting with Kindred of the East, and ending a few years ago.</p><p></p><p>I'd almost be willing to be that the sheer majority of gamers play at their residences or residences of friends, too. While I could be wrong, I've a feeling that I'm not, and I think that one thing that some of these game stores might be forgetting, understandably given the economic weight of the subject, is that they are their for the customers, just like the gaming producers are, and not the other way around.</p><p></p><p>If we want to buy PDFs, we should be able to get PDFs, just like if we want books, we should be able to get books, and that's just that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Friadoc, post: 4750808, member: 5445"] Now that is how a game store lost my patronage, as they moved to a larger space, advertising what would be more playing space and display space, only to fill most of the store up with bulky, wide-display board game items and exiling the role-playing game books to a library-style shelf display that only showed spines and crammed them into a fractional portion of their store. Prior to this moment and move, this was a store that had a fairly equal display of all their games, be it board, role-playing, collectible card game, or what not, yet after the move I felt as if they did not want my business anymore. Thus, they lost my business and that was their fault, not that of PDFs or an online store. While I prefer to be a patron of a local game store, specifically a friendly one, it is not something I owe them, but something that they have to earn from me. When I first moved to Boise, back around 1996 or so, Dark Horse Comics and Games earned my loyalty, through the moves, including the one out of town a bit, and until the store transitioned away from being a store front place. The owner was a solid, gregarious guy who loved talking about the industry and offered nice member serves and other things that earned loyalty. He also got that PDFs were PDFs and books were books, or seemed to, but he also knew that it was up to him to lose customers, nobody else. While I might do it differently than some folks, I don't go to game stores to play my game, I go there to get products, talk game talk, and sometimes meet folk, sometimes even participate in an event. That's it. The only time that I ever played in a game store, not counting Free RPG Day, is when I was a member of White Wolf's demo team, starting with Kindred of the East, and ending a few years ago. I'd almost be willing to be that the sheer majority of gamers play at their residences or residences of friends, too. While I could be wrong, I've a feeling that I'm not, and I think that one thing that some of these game stores might be forgetting, understandably given the economic weight of the subject, is that they are their for the customers, just like the gaming producers are, and not the other way around. If we want to buy PDFs, we should be able to get PDFs, just like if we want books, we should be able to get books, and that's just that. [/QUOTE]
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