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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3617080" data-attributes="member: 11760">I wasn't. The "F" in FLGS tells it all: There is a bias on the part of many RPG gamers in favor of the mom and pop shop, based in sentiment.Which very few people participate in. The polls done here at ENWorld suggest that most gamers have NEVER played a game at a LGS.I have never seen a Borders employee chase someone out of the store with a stick for explaining what an RPG is. In fact, I've seen people playing games in the coffee house areas of both B&N and Borders, so long as they're cognizant of the other customers.The industry has been chronically mismanaged for its entire length, and only in the last few years has anything resembling a professional way of doing things started to appear and the MOST successful publisher, Wizards of the Coast, ended up closing their retail outlets. Prior to that, the previous big dog, TSR, was apparently governed by throwing darts at a board.You'll forgive me if I don't get excited about the industry's decades of market research.</blockquote>