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<blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5725247" data-attributes="member: 10479"><p>This has stabilized in great measure but to characterize it as a post d20 era really misses the obvious.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There have been plenty of non-d20 games around since the early Eighties, still are, and always were during the last decade. That really hasn't changed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm getting the impression that this "history" isn't as well researched as it could have been and that the editorial content included seems ill-informed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the Chicago area, we've seen a few new stores (dedicated game stores, not comicbook stores with a bit of shelf space) open in the last five to ten years and a great many close, including a chain of gamestores that had been around since the Seventies/Eighties that at its peak consisted of nearly twenty locations (it had about a dozen just before closing for good). I don't get the impression that stores, as a whole, are doing well though individual stores might be doing well enough.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>RPGs have almost always been a small percentage of any game store's overall profit, unless you include stores that primarily do RPGs, which are few. Magic (CCGs in general), war minis, and numerous other product types are the main fare for most gamestores while RPGs are a small percentage. This has almost always been the case, except during the Eighties during TSR's boom period.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark CMG, post: 5725247, member: 10479"] This has stabilized in great measure but to characterize it as a post d20 era really misses the obvious. There have been plenty of non-d20 games around since the early Eighties, still are, and always were during the last decade. That really hasn't changed. I'm getting the impression that this "history" isn't as well researched as it could have been and that the editorial content included seems ill-informed. In the Chicago area, we've seen a few new stores (dedicated game stores, not comicbook stores with a bit of shelf space) open in the last five to ten years and a great many close, including a chain of gamestores that had been around since the Seventies/Eighties that at its peak consisted of nearly twenty locations (it had about a dozen just before closing for good). I don't get the impression that stores, as a whole, are doing well though individual stores might be doing well enough. RPGs have almost always been a small percentage of any game store's overall profit, unless you include stores that primarily do RPGs, which are few. Magic (CCGs in general), war minis, and numerous other product types are the main fare for most gamestores while RPGs are a small percentage. This has almost always been the case, except during the Eighties during TSR's boom period. [/QUOTE]
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