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"Exclusive deals suck!" - James Mathe's rant about the tabletop industry
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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6071535" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>The <a href="http://www.jamesmathe.com/exclusive-deals-suck/" target="_blank">blog post is here</a>. </p><p></p><p>I have some sympathy for James' position, but large brick & mortar stores like Target obtaining exclusive deals from game publishers at the expense of small retailers like his own brick & mortar store is - at least in my mind - absolutely identical to large online retailers like James' own RPGNow/DTRP obtaining exclusive deals from game publishers at the expense of small retailers like YourGamesNow or the new d20pfsrd.com PDF store, both of which struggle to get stock. To be clear - I don't think that's wrong at all; I just think it's analogous.</p><p></p><p>Nate Scheidler pointed out on Facebook - and this was a good point - that an FLGS isn't directly analogous to YGN or d20pfsrd.com because the former is a tool for creating gamers and a community hub, whereas the latter two aren't. I'm not sure that makes an RPGNow exclusive deal OK and a Target one bad, though -- in my mind, either both are OK, or neither are. I tend towards the former - I don't think exclusivity deals are inherently wrong (although some of the dishonesty James talks about in his blog is).</p><p></p><p>I dunno. What do you guys think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6071535, member: 1"] The [URL="http://www.jamesmathe.com/exclusive-deals-suck/"]blog post is here[/URL]. I have some sympathy for James' position, but large brick & mortar stores like Target obtaining exclusive deals from game publishers at the expense of small retailers like his own brick & mortar store is - at least in my mind - absolutely identical to large online retailers like James' own RPGNow/DTRP obtaining exclusive deals from game publishers at the expense of small retailers like YourGamesNow or the new d20pfsrd.com PDF store, both of which struggle to get stock. To be clear - I don't think that's wrong at all; I just think it's analogous. Nate Scheidler pointed out on Facebook - and this was a good point - that an FLGS isn't directly analogous to YGN or d20pfsrd.com because the former is a tool for creating gamers and a community hub, whereas the latter two aren't. I'm not sure that makes an RPGNow exclusive deal OK and a Target one bad, though -- in my mind, either both are OK, or neither are. I tend towards the former - I don't think exclusivity deals are inherently wrong (although some of the dishonesty James talks about in his blog is). I dunno. What do you guys think? [/QUOTE]
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