Joys of WoTC retail store

[fba827]

I stopped shopping at WotC when they expanded their board games and computer games to fill the front 90% of the store, and moved all RPG material onto bookshelves in the back 10% of the store (so you have to squeeze past the tables and climb over the bookbags of CCG players just to get a look at the spines of the books).

Lame. Is this a chain-wide change or just what they did locally (Maryland)?

As I read your post, I was thinking "Gee, that's just like what has happened near me!" -- then, I was all ready to reply with my similar tales when I saw your question asking if it is chain-wide or just local.... then... when I see that you're referring to Maryland... I realize all too quickly that more than likley we're talking about the exact same store

(or, if not, it's at least a local thing -- the WotC store in Anne Arundels Mill Mall and Lakeforest Mall both have done this).

 

[megamania]

I'm strangely comforted by the new edition arriving on my birthday.

Happy B-day!

 

[talien]

See: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43496

The only store in the area that carries RPGs, my WOTC, went under in Stamford, CT.

 

[Dieter]

As I read your post, I was thinking "Gee, that's just like what has happened near me!" -- then, I was all ready to reply with my similar tales when I saw your question asking if it is chain-wide or just local.... then... when I see that you're referring to Maryland... I realize all too quickly that more than likley we're talking about the exact same store

(or, if not, it's at least a local thing -- the WotC store in Anne Arundels Mill Mall and Lakeforest Mall both have done this).

I think he's actually referring to the one at the Mall in Columbia. That place is infested with CCG-ers and you literally have to wade through their gaming schwag just to see the RPG stuff.

 

[Desdichado]

Detroit in general seems to have a somewhat surprising dearth of good FLGS -- the Wizards stores were important to me, because they were at least always there and relatively good.

Then they decided they were going to majorly cut back on non-WotC productions. Then they shut their doors.

Now, I'm left without a truly good store in the area. There's a few decent ones -- I can pass by Pandemonium on the way home from work without going out of my way, and they're not bad, although more mini and CCG oriented than RPG oriented. I can do the same for Old Guard, but they're much more wargaming than RPGing. And, I can go to Rider's from home relatively easily, but they almost only do RPGs as an afterthought for their model railroading, RC racing and Games Workshop stuff.

So I'm, at least, disappointed to see WotC go. Although if we had game stores like some of the ones I've seen in Chicago, I wouldn't have paid any attention to them anyway.

 

[Vanye]

Detroit in general seems to have a somewhat surprising dearth of good FLGS -- the Wizards stores were important to me, because they were at least always there and relatively good.

Well, there's always Underworld in Ann Arbor, the Fortress in Lansing, or Red Dragon in Otisville (up by Flint). None of them are local for Detroit, really, but they're all good stores. Especially Red Dragon. Mickey (the owner/operator) is a little weird and flaky, but she's reliable, friendly, and sometimes even funny.