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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2883516" data-attributes="member: 53">No, I think it applies to the U.S., too.  Yes, the internet is huge.  However, if you lose the FLGS, you lose the public face of the gaming industry.  You lose that visibility, then you lose people coming into gaming and people being reminded and returning to gaming.Yes, RPGs are bearing the brunt of it right now.  However, if we lose the FLGS (or even a bulk of them), the CCG and miniatures games are going to take the bigger hits.  A majority of the miniature games are played in stores (name a successful miniatures game that doesn't have some tournament structure right now - I'm not sure it can happen), lose them and the miniatures industry will take a huge hit.  We'll have to go back to the days of the wargaming clubs from the 70's without stores to lay in.Move to the internet, as some suggest, and many of the people who might consider the hobby games won't transfer over.  If you are going to play online, why not play the more visually satisfying games like WoW, or even first person shooter games?</blockquote>