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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 7697038" data-attributes="member: 85870"><p>This. It's crazy to me that FLGS's haven't figured out that they really need to be some kind of combination of what they already are + carrying the kind of stock that your typical Hot Topic and/or Spencer's Gift store would carry. </p><p></p><p> @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=4937" target="_blank">Celebrim</a></u></strong></em> is also on to something with monetizing space --- Most patrons go to an FLGS to do one of two things, buy product or actually play. For the right kind of place, with management that knows how to market that, it's absolutely something I would get behind. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, I personally have zero desire to ever play in one of our local FLGS's for the simple fact that the play spaces are abysmal. I wouldn't pay $2 to use their space, even if it did come with a 32 oz. fountain drink.</p><p></p><p>Two of the local FLGS's in my county are run by the same ownership group. They're the classic "hole in the wall" places that basically exist to exist. The people who run the store aren't friendly, don't interact with customers, are absolutely terrible at catering the store experience to better fit their customers, continue to doggedly put old war gaming material and Palladium RPG material on display that has literally been on their shelves for two decades when it's OBVIOUS that it's not going to sell. (At some point you just have to pull that crap off the shelf, box it up, and sell it to some insane collector on eBay just so it's no longer taking up space against stuff that's actually making you money.)</p><p></p><p>They don't stay up on stock for the Lord of the Rings Living Card Game, which is one of the few products that it's basically more feasible to buy in the store than online. To their credit, one of the stores does generally stock most of the Savage Worlds campaign settings after they've been kickstarted, and they'll generally have one or two Savage Worlds core rulebooks in stock.</p><p></p><p>Other than that, it's basically the exact experience you'd never want to have going to an FLGS.</p><p></p><p>There's one other FLGS in the county, but it's a good 20 miles from my house, and in talking to the owner he's basically disavowed RPGs entirely. He basically carries a small stock of D&D (whatever the current edition is), Pathfinder, and the current Star Wars RPG.</p><p></p><p>But the evolution of the FLGS is simple --- it will go from a place to primarily buy gaming material to a place to <em>play</em> games. When physical product becomes a commodity, the only real value for the FLGS becomes the <em>social networking</em> component.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 7697038, member: 85870"] This. It's crazy to me that FLGS's haven't figured out that they really need to be some kind of combination of what they already are + carrying the kind of stock that your typical Hot Topic and/or Spencer's Gift store would carry. @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=4937"]Celebrim[/URL][/U][/B][/I] is also on to something with monetizing space --- Most patrons go to an FLGS to do one of two things, buy product or actually play. For the right kind of place, with management that knows how to market that, it's absolutely something I would get behind. Unfortunately, I personally have zero desire to ever play in one of our local FLGS's for the simple fact that the play spaces are abysmal. I wouldn't pay $2 to use their space, even if it did come with a 32 oz. fountain drink. Two of the local FLGS's in my county are run by the same ownership group. They're the classic "hole in the wall" places that basically exist to exist. The people who run the store aren't friendly, don't interact with customers, are absolutely terrible at catering the store experience to better fit their customers, continue to doggedly put old war gaming material and Palladium RPG material on display that has literally been on their shelves for two decades when it's OBVIOUS that it's not going to sell. (At some point you just have to pull that crap off the shelf, box it up, and sell it to some insane collector on eBay just so it's no longer taking up space against stuff that's actually making you money.) They don't stay up on stock for the Lord of the Rings Living Card Game, which is one of the few products that it's basically more feasible to buy in the store than online. To their credit, one of the stores does generally stock most of the Savage Worlds campaign settings after they've been kickstarted, and they'll generally have one or two Savage Worlds core rulebooks in stock. Other than that, it's basically the exact experience you'd never want to have going to an FLGS. There's one other FLGS in the county, but it's a good 20 miles from my house, and in talking to the owner he's basically disavowed RPGs entirely. He basically carries a small stock of D&D (whatever the current edition is), Pathfinder, and the current Star Wars RPG. But the evolution of the FLGS is simple --- it will go from a place to primarily buy gaming material to a place to [I]play[/I] games. When physical product becomes a commodity, the only real value for the FLGS becomes the [I]social networking[/I] component. [/QUOTE]
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