Is the age of discounts over?
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Arnwyn
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Me, since:rgard said:
1) I'm not in the U.S., so I'm just pointing and laughing at all this [hyperbole]; and
2) It looks like Amazon.ca simply 'discounts books', and an RPG book is just a 'book'.
(Of course, this is all theory for me anyways. By the time that the LGSs are gone and the online retailers' discounts are yanked, I'll be long gone.)
Storminator
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Whizbang Dustyboots said:
No. Not "much more relevant..." More like exactly as relevant, which means you are assuming one way, and Felix assumed the other way. Except he stated his as an assumption, and you seem to think of yours as a logical conclusion. It is nothing of the sort. It is an assumption that FLGS are irrelevant.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Put the product where people can get to it and provide an environment where they can read through the product before purchasing it, which will remain the advantage brick-and-mortar stores have over online, until everyone puts previews online, which I doubt will ever happen.Sigdel said:
If you keep buying coffee, you can do whatever you want at their coffee shop, so long as you don't disturb the other customers.Sigdel said:
Go ahead and look at the figures on how many people are actually shopping online. Every news site seems to go over it around Thanksgiving at the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. It's only been in the last few years that any significant number of customers have been buying online at all. The WotC stores were going under long before then.Felix said:
Teh big scary Internet is not the root of the LGS' woes, it's just contributing to existing problems already in place.
I don't think Amazon is discounting RPGs as a specific strategy that will change when local stores are gone -- in much of the country, they've been gone for years, if they ever existed -- it's a general strategy.rgard said:
Storminator
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Arnwyn said:
How do you know they'll be discount books?
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
He has zero data points, I have an admittedly flawed opt-in series of polls as a data point. That's not "exactly as relevant."Storminator said:
DaveMage
Slumbering in Tsar
I'd also add that I think it's a bit too little too late to "save" the LGS model as it has been.
There are certainly some great FLGS still out there, but they seem to be the rare exception rather than the rule.
Finally, the current RPG hobby model itself may be entering its twilight.
There are certainly some great FLGS still out there, but they seem to be the rare exception rather than the rule.
Finally, the current RPG hobby model itself may be entering its twilight.
Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I find that assertion absurd. Unless you have hard numbers to back it up, it's no more than an unfounded assumption, and it conflicts with my own personal experience. In the last three places I've lived, I've had at least one FLGS nearby. Each had a very healthy gaming community, and it was not uncommon for new people to be introduced to the game via the store.
Please prove the inconsequence of my experiences.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I don't think that'll happen. I think it'll be like the comic industry: a hothouse to develop ideas for other mediums. In this case, I think MMORPGs and other computer/console games will continue to pull ideas from RPGs, both IPs and rules systems. You won't find bigger RPG gamers than the developers of MMORPGs.DaveMage said:
