Opinions on EN World commercialisation

[Agnostic Paladin]

Its all good.

I can't see anyone having complaints about this other than some vague notion of it opening up the possibility of influencing the site in general or the review section specifically to try and increase sales. But that doesn't make the commercialization a bad thing. (If abuse happened, the abuse would be a bad thing, but I'm not even concerned that it might.)

 

[Eosin the Red]

My meaningless opinion!

I guess I don't know the whole story yet, but I have some suspsions. I have stong feelings about supporting my local game store. They are there for me, providing we with a place to meet other gamers, get goodies and all of the other cool stuff they do.

ENworld in all of its incarnations, does the same thing. I spend several hours of my work day checking various forums and looking at who is playing what. I socialize (some, I am kinda quiet). Why shouldn't I feel exactly the same for ENworld as I do for my local shop?

The more I think about it, the more the idea seems natural to me. I would hate to think of Morrus going bankrupt over my crack....I mean ENworld habit.

Hope to see an announcement soon.

 

[Horacio]

Every morning, when I arrive at work, I begin with the General forum, so I posted there what I should/would like having posted here:

Hey, Morrus, I think you've slipped now...
You live in U.K., right? I live in France. In this boards there are people from U.K., France, Spain, Sweden... All have the same problem when buying online: shipping costs!
At least $10-15 for a book, that means almost doubling the price!. But if we buy from a U.K. store shipping goes down to 1-2£ for UK citizens to 3-4£ for European... more interesting, not?
So, why, in the name of all European board members, base your online stuff in the US???? They already have hundres of online stores!!!!!! We, poor European, would have appreciated an UK based store. I'd had loved it!
So, please, Morrus, think about it, O.K.?
And, of course, nothing of the above can be considered an attack against yu or ENWorld. I know you spend hours and hours in here, making all of this work, and I thank you vehemently. You're great!
I'd only love an European ENWorld store...

 

[Someguy]

I agree....It could be a real good Idea.
Let's hope it all goes smoothly.

 

[Morrus]

Every morning, when I arrive at work, I begin with the General forum, so I posted there what I should/would like having posted here:

Hey, Morrus, I think you've slipped now...
You live in U.K., right? I live in France. In this boards there are people from U.K., France, Spain, Sweden... All have the same problem when buying online: shipping costs!
At least $10-15 for a book, that means almost doubling the price!. But if we buy from a U.K. store shipping goes down to 1-2£ for UK citizens to 3-4£ for European... more interesting, not?
So, why, in the name of all European board members, base your online stuff in the US???? They already have hundres of online stores!!!!!! We, poor European, would have appreciated an UK based store. I'd had loved it!
So, please, Morrus, think about it, O.K.?
And, of course, nothing of the above can be considered an attack against yu or ENWorld. I know you spend hours and hours in here, making all of this work, and I thank you vehemently. You're great!
I'd only love an European ENWorld store...

Unfortunately, I don't have a convenient warehouse full of RPG stuff in my back garden. This owuld require an already-existing online store to make a deal with.

If anyone knows of one who might be willing to do a similar deal for Europe, I'd be interested.

 

[CRGreathouse]

EN World commercialization? It's a great thing. I don't have a local store right now, not without driving for over an hour, so I might use it.

Even if I didn't use it, others might, which goes to a higher purpose: keeping the site running. Go Morrus!

 

[Horacio]

Unfortunately, I don't have a convenient warehouse full of RPG stuff in my back garden. This owuld require an already-existing online store to make a deal with.

If anyone knows of one who might be willing to do a similar deal for Europe, I'd be interested.

I know a pair of good online stores at U.K., maybe they would be interested. Send me an e-mail to this address if you're int'erested (let's hope you're ).

 

[LcKedovan]

I know a pair of good online stores at U.K., maybe they would be interested. Send me an e-mail to this address if you're int'erested (let's hope you're ).

Well, I have to say once again the Horacigon has spoken with my voice also. I fully support the idea of an online store, but us people in Europe are constantly on the shaft-end of the stick. When Talon was first on here I saw it as a way to get cool stuff directly without having to hunt for it etc. etc. but the shipping really makes it hard for me. It's hard when you aren't living in London next to the Orc's Nest for example and of the people on the board the Europeans are usually the ones without a decent local store. Anyhow, I think a European shopping site would be a big advantage to us Morrus, and I know that in addition to me, at least 2 colleagues (who don't use the board) who use Amazon currently would also use this one.

-Will

 

[TalonComics]

For the record, I was interested in working out something but the last time I had heard anything regarding this was over 6 months ago. Between all the server moving, boards changing and things like that I honestly didn't expect anything like this to be remotely ready to be worked on.

But that's life.

EN World is a great place to hang out!
Hopefully I'll still be welcome here and things won't be any different than they have been. I still plan on doing what I normally do.

~Derek

 

[Horacio]

EN World is a great place to hang out!
Hopefully I'll still be welcome here and things won't be any different than they have been. I still plan on doing what I normally do.

~Derek

And I hope you will continue doing it, Derek!
And I will continue buying from you, of course (For the record I've tried RPGShop.com once and their shipping charges to Europe are crazily high, and Derek's service and costumer care are top of the top!).