RigaMortus
Explorer
Because Amazon.com is the WalMart of the internet...
That being said, I have no opinion about this topic either way
That being said, I have no opinion about this topic either way
ZosKia said:S'mon said:I later discovered I could have got Lost City of Gaxmoor from them for a little over half what it cost to have amazon.com ship it from the USA.
Ha! Serves you right for not going there in person. I can get there and back in two hours!
Hi Andrew - this was before I knew they existed.
My point was that FLGS's need to compete on all fronts - value for money, range of goods, & quality of service. The good ones do this. No gamer has a moral obligation to buy from them if they don't.
Edit: Re small press publishers. It seems like a nice hobby but I don't see why you would want to give up the day job... (evil smilie) >
I don't really buy the argument that third-party commercial publishers of D&D material are a necessary part of the D&D game. I have bought a bunch of Mongoose and other 3rd party stuff, it's nice but it's very peripheral - I'd still be running a D&D game without it (although WotC's nice attitude exemplified in the OGL was certainly something that attracted me to 3e). The Internet is a free distribution mechanism for non-commercial materials, there's as much free material out there (of all sorts of quality) as anyone could ever use, and then some. Arguments that the hobby would die without 3rd party commercial publishers make little sense to me. WoTC is necessarily the driver for D&D, not Troll Lord or Necromancer.
TalonComics said:
Believe me, if Wal Mart could be the only store that existed they would.
mirthcard said:nickel-pinching, compunctionless, compassionless, hard-nosed CONSUMERS