Because few people have an actual grasp of what it costs to produce a given product or offer a given service, so even if they like what they're buying, they're likely to underpay.
Because few people have an actual grasp of what it costs to produce a given product or offer a given service, so even if they like what they're buying, they're likely to underpay.
You assume people are cheap and like to be free riders. The tragedy of the commons and all that.
...few people have an actual grasp of what it costs to produce a given product or offer a given service, so even if they like what they're buying, they're likely to underpay.
As for businesses that do survive on an altruism model:
1) Public radio and TV stations in the US
2) US theatrical productions (outside NYC and Vegas). These are nearly always supported by local bigwigs and businesses. In Seattle, some even have "name your own price" matinees, where people come in and pay whatever they want for a seat -- some pay $5, some $100.
Yeah, way to put the best foot forward WOTC, use the setting everyone knows and loves from growing up with and/or reading all its best seller novels -- Eberron -- and a rule set that doesn't correspond to any edition of D&D.
That's the experience people are looking for when they are looking for D&D -- playing robot people, auto healing for standing around, and PvP pit fighting.![]()
Why not?
Did you actually read what I posted before quoting it?
3? Orc's Nest, Forbidden Planet, and the one near the British Museum, eh? All in the area between Covent Garden and the British Museum. I worked in that neighborhood too, when I lived in the UK.
The thing is, Forbidden Planet is a great sci fi geek store, but not much of a gamer's store. The Orc's Nest I liked, but it's actually kinda small (compared to American stores) and had a decent, but not extensive, collection of D&D ware.
So I think central London actually has a dearth of good game stores, unless things have changed in the past decade.