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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6167215" data-attributes="member: 3400">I've been shopping at a FLGS run by hobbyists for about 30 years. You aren't going to find a better place to talk face-to-face with someone about the games. There's nothing wrong with hobbyists opening a game store - as long as they know (or can quickly figure out) how to run it and run it well.Frankly, I'm a little tired of critics dumping on hobbyists in and around the gaming industry. "They shouldn't design games. They shouldn't run game stores. blah fricking blah." How many game designers aren't also hobbyists? How many successful game store owners aren't also hobbyists? Why would someone get into either profession without also being a hobbyist? The money?!? I think not.For the most part, these are hobbyists who also have or have developed skills in doing the things they do for money, just like the hobbyist who works as a computer programmer, or the hobbyist who works as a construction worker, the hobbyist who sits on the bench as a judge, or the hobbyist who manages case files with the VA.</blockquote>