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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5432600" data-attributes="member: 6667746">Well of course they are, that is why WotC created their own retail stores like GW has (both pretty much failed), and the WotC store that remains (THE, ONE) is near its headquarters, and the GW stores that remain are run by ONE single staff person.People are definitely flocking to buy 400 space marines so they can be WYSIWYG. and jumping on the bi-monthly price hikes, and new edition every 6 months.That is exactly what WotC should do is confuse the customers so much they have to keep buying everything including the magazine (play tournaments for GW games, and you best have the rules errata ONLY found in White Dwarf or bought in additional books) just to get a hint you know what you are doing.[/sarcasm]The only thing WotC could do remotely similar to GW would be have a proper online store that people could buy directly from WotC. Unfortunately WotC doesn't really make anything like GW, so there is lots of middlemen with getting the books and such from China shipped to the customer. Which is funny since I can(could) go to HASBRO website and buy the newest Monopoly directly from them. Maybe WotC should be using those HASBRO resources to get things made in a more cost effective way rather than rely on old business partners to do things and they COULD have a store online that sells easier from local manufacturers; but instead their method of online store is DDi, where they will jsut stop making books, and move to the rental model for D&D for all things you can buy that way.Tokens will disappear from the market soon and some appear printable free online, until they too end up behind the paywall.No a smart businessman wants to keep as many customers as possible to get as much money as possible and make it look like the customers choice to buy rather than to force them out by doing something that otherwise makes them no longer want to freely hand over their money for whatever you are making, unless you are selling food or a necessity that you will always have custoemrs for.</blockquote>

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