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<blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 3629102" data-attributes="member: 3608">How I miss the days of looking at D&amp;D stuff at game stores (in the mall), bookstores, hobby stores (even the big one's like Michaels), &amp; all over the place. How much of that was just because it was a &quot;golden age&quot; of the hobby/industry...I don't know.Really, though, it seems I can hardly find anything on store shelves that really makes me enjoy browsing anymore.I blame the internet. No, really. It has shifted more &quot;medium selling&quot; products out of brick &amp; mortar inventory to order. Which is probably a good thing for retailers (whether brick &amp; mortar, online, or both), but which has killed browsing. At least for me.On the other hand, the net has also made it a lot easier to acquire the lowest selling stuff.Sure. Every product competes with every other product for our dollars. &amp; Heroscape &amp; RPGs are both games, so to some extent Heroscape competes with RPGs &quot;more&quot; than (e.g.) DVDs compete with RPGs. But I don't think an RPG product manager should be losing too much sleep worrying about Heroscape.Although, I have my doubts that this hobby really needs much of an industry anymore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RFisher, post: 3629102, member: 3608"] How I miss the days of looking at D&D stuff at game stores (in the [i]mall[/i]), bookstores, hobby stores (even the big one's like Michaels), & all over the place. How much of that was just because it was a "golden age" of the hobby/industry...I don't know. Really, though, it seems I can hardly find anything on store shelves that really makes me enjoy browsing anymore. I blame the internet. No, really. It has shifted more "medium selling" products out of brick & mortar inventory to order. Which is probably a good thing for retailers (whether brick & mortar, online, or both), but which has killed browsing. At least for me. On the other hand, the net has also made it a lot easier to acquire the lowest selling stuff. Sure. Every product competes with every other product for our dollars. & Heroscape & RPGs are both games, so to some extent Heroscape competes with RPGs "more" than (e.g.) DVDs compete with RPGs. But I don't think an RPG product manager should be losing too much sleep worrying about Heroscape. Although, I have my doubts that this hobby really needs much of an industry anymore. [/QUOTE]

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