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<blockquote data-quote="TalonComics" data-source="post: 948897" data-attributes="member: 60">Basically, it's like this:FLGS make it possible for small press companies to sell their books easily and readily, they provide a place to play and try out new games via demos, and with those demos can provide direct results of those demos to both publishers and distributors. FLGSs get much of their bread and butter sales from the mainstream products like the books WotC puts out. When retailers lose those kind of sales they then don't have the extra money to carry small press books or in some cases they just give up on carrying RPGs altogether as they figure no one is going to buy them anyway. So, when the FLGS goes the small press publishers are left with trying to sell their wares via only the internet and games that have the potential to be the next Magic: the Gathering or Clix game never get a chance as the grass roots support of FLGSs are gone.I want to see gaming thrive and evolve well into the future and as a player, whether I own a store or not, I want a place I can hang out and try new games. Just today we played several games of the new WizKids's Shadowrun Clix game. I would have never even seen the game without a store and therefore as a gamer I would have missed out.So, in a nutshell, when FLGSs close because they lost money to massive discounters, gamers and publishers everwhere lose as well.I know not all gaming stores are great places to be and not all of them are friendly. Use your best judgement when it comes to that.~D</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TalonComics, post: 948897, member: 60"] Basically, it's like this: FLGS make it possible for small press companies to sell their books easily and readily, they provide a place to play and try out new games via demos, and with those demos can provide direct results of those demos to both publishers and distributors. FLGSs get much of their bread and butter sales from the mainstream products like the books WotC puts out. When retailers lose those kind of sales they then don't have the extra money to carry small press books or in some cases they just give up on carrying RPGs altogether as they figure no one is going to buy them anyway. So, when the FLGS goes the small press publishers are left with trying to sell their wares via only the internet and games that have the potential to be the next Magic: the Gathering or Clix game never get a chance as the grass roots support of FLGSs are gone. I want to see gaming thrive and evolve well into the future and as a player, whether I own a store or not, I want a place I can hang out and try new games. Just today we played several games of the new WizKids's Shadowrun Clix game. I would have never even seen the game without a store and therefore as a gamer I would have missed out. So, in a nutshell, when FLGSs close because they lost money to massive discounters, gamers and publishers everwhere lose as well. I know not all gaming stores are great places to be and not all of them are friendly. Use your best judgement when it comes to that. ~D [/QUOTE]

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