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<blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 2063357" data-attributes="member: 19998">Actually, they had Wizards of the Coast stores all up and down California because that's where the biggest concentration of Game Keepers was, and WotC bought the Game Keeper in 1999 IIRC. All Wizards of the Coast stores closed a year ago because the retail division wan't making money. I worked for Wizards of the Coast from the time they bought The Game Keeper to the last day my store was in business, March 31 2004, and while everything you say about making and distributing games is correct, that's just not how it happened. Pokemon was like that, mostly because WotC/GK stories where the only stores in the area that sold Pokemon cards at MSRP, a price that was far lower than everyone else. Wehn the Pokemon sales dried-up Hasbro had bought the company and no one knew what to do. WotC retail thought we were a toy store, for some reason I can't fathom, and stocked us with toys and games that were often double what people would pay at Walmart and Target. In fact that was my #2 most often heard complaint. My #1 most often heard complaint was that we didn't have enough Settler's of Catan, Axis and Alies, and Avalon Hill games that long time customers expected us to have. We lost customers, but didn't get enought new ones from Pokemon to balence it out. I want to point something out to you, something that makes little sense to me but something I've heard of other companies doing. WotC retail had to buy M:tG cards from WotC manufacturing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fanboy2000, post: 2063357, member: 19998"] Actually, they had Wizards of the Coast stores all up and down California because that's where the biggest concentration of Game Keepers was, and WotC bought the Game Keeper in 1999 IIRC. All Wizards of the Coast stores closed a year ago because the retail division wan't making money. I worked for Wizards of the Coast from the time they bought The Game Keeper to the last day my store was in business, March 31 2004, and while everything you say about making and distributing games is correct, that's just not how it happened. Pokemon was like that, mostly because WotC/GK stories where the only stores in the area that sold Pokemon cards at MSRP, a price that was far lower than everyone else. Wehn the Pokemon sales dried-up Hasbro had bought the company and no one knew what to do. WotC retail thought we were a toy store, for some reason I can't fathom, and stocked us with toys and games that were often double what people would pay at Walmart and Target. In fact that was my #2 most often heard complaint. My #1 most often heard complaint was that we didn't have enough Settler's of Catan, Axis and Alies, and Avalon Hill games that long time customers expected us to have. We lost customers, but didn't get enought new ones from Pokemon to balence it out. I want to point something out to you, something that makes little sense to me but something I've heard of other companies doing. WotC retail had to buy M:tG cards from WotC manufacturing. [/QUOTE]

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