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<blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 992069" data-attributes="member: 1457">What's happening now is: gamers are getting gaming product at lower prices. That's a Good Thing for gamers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The &quot;long term effect&quot; has already arrived: those gamers that care about price will shop online. Those that don't care about price will or who want the FLGS &quot;feel&quot; will shop offline.Physical FLGS stores have indeed lost sales of game books and will continue to lose sales on game books, but they've responded by focusing on product that is best sold offline: collectable games. &nbsp;If I was a FLGS, I'd be less concerned with online stores selling physical product and more concerned with gaming's move to electronic product. If physical FLGS stores think they've got competition now, just wait until D&amp;D 4th Edition is released in digital format*.I agree with everything said here. Of course, Amazon has been profitable and has seriously &quot;re-thunk&quot; the game plan--Amazon is more and more becoming an online retail technology company--a &quot;platform&quot; for online retail. Sales from Gap, Target, Old Navy, ToysRUs, Circuit City, J&amp;R, and regular joes like me and you (selling Used stuff) accounts for a significant portion of revenue sold on Amazon.com. -z* I have no idea if D&amp;D 4E will be digital or not, but it's plain that there's a demand for digital gaming products (over and above computer and video games).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zaruthustran, post: 992069, member: 1457"] What's happening now is: gamers are getting gaming product at lower prices. That's a Good Thing for gamers. :) The "long term effect" has already arrived: those gamers that care about price will shop online. Those that don't care about price will or who want the FLGS "feel" will shop offline. Physical FLGS stores have indeed lost sales of game books and will continue to lose sales on game books, but they've responded by focusing on product that is best sold offline: collectable games. If I was a FLGS, I'd be less concerned with online stores selling physical product and more concerned with gaming's move to electronic product. If physical FLGS stores think they've got competition now, just wait until D&D 4th Edition is released in digital format*. I agree with everything said here. Of course, Amazon has been profitable and has seriously "re-thunk" the game plan--Amazon is more and more becoming an online retail technology company--a "platform" for online retail. Sales from Gap, Target, Old Navy, ToysRUs, Circuit City, J&R, and regular joes like me and you (selling Used stuff) accounts for a significant portion of revenue sold on Amazon.com. -z * I have no idea if D&D 4E will be digital or not, but it's plain that there's a demand for digital gaming products (over and above computer and video games). [/QUOTE]

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