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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrem Bayle" data-source="post: 949665" data-attributes="member: 3103">The way I see it, there is at least some benefit in buying from big business.Other than the discount to the consumer, buying from big businesses such as Wal-Mart is kind of like voting with your dollars.Lets say this was kind of an experiment done by Wal-Mart. Does anyone know if you could buy the 3.0 books from them?Ok, so Wal mart, who knows nothing about the industry, decides to put the book on thier web page. They sell like hotcakes. Lets say they sell well enough for somebody at the top of take notice. They think: "Hey! Why don't we put this stuff in our stores?"Then we start seeing D&D books popping up in Wal Mart stores. This is where it gets good (and bad). The average American seems to have a state of mind that says "If Wal Mart sells it, it must be good."Sales skyrocket. D&D becomes more mainstream. We get commercials paid for by someone other than GE. Roleplaying becomes more accepted and us gamers "come out of the closet". The D&D = Satanism myth is finally stomped out and we don't have to travel to the far corners of the earth to get our books. (For me, it is almost 40 miles to the FLGS.)Now. I'm not saying this is all necessarily a good thing. Obviously local game shops would take a huge hit and as a side effect of it's popularity, the "gaming culture" suffers a bit as well. So it has it's ups and downs. I'd like to see the hobby become a little more mainstream, but not at the expense of quality.I guess, like any good American, I want the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, the best of both worlds doesn't look realistic.</blockquote>

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