Concerning buying D&D 4th Edition

[PaulofCthulhu]

And maybe in ten years, there will be less gamers. That's not really my job to advertise for the publishers, they need to do that.

Unfortunately they often seem to be not very good at it. Usually it's all they can do to publish the games. Decent marketing can cost far more money than the production of the original content.

Funny thing about tabletop RPGs is that it requires people sitting together in the same room to play them. Without a certain 'Gamer Population Density', games don't happen.

I've heard more people recenty say that they got into roleplaying by passing a Local Games Store and going in to look at the curious stuff inside, rather than the usual argument that games stores don't do such a thing, just support existing gamers. I find that interesting.

I wonder what methods can be used to recruit new gamers?

I think one thing that the release of D&D 4e has shown, is the power now of online retail, and likely a harbinger of more games store closures, and fewer new store openings.

 

[Dr. Talos]

Agreed, Dragon's Lair is awesome, probably the best gaming store I've ever been to... But I can't pass up a 45% discount. I just can't. I buy my splatbooks from DL, and I"m there for comic books every week on the dot (even though they got rid of their subscriber discount ;_; so long ago.) but the two boxed sets I'm getting (birthday gift for roommate)... I just can't justify spending 80 dollars more. I could get a third boxed set off the savings from that...


Gotta budget, man. Got bills to pay.

I will agree that Dragon's Lair was a great store when I lived near Austin. In fact I would drive 40 miles south from where I lived to get there. Here in West Texas...not so much.