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Message: <blockquote data-quote="happyhermit" data-source="post: 7697854" data-attributes="member: 6834463">As for FLGS in general, the two main ones I visit regularly (in a smallish city) are doing excellent AFAIK. My usual one is 20+ yrs old now, and they have expanded 4 times, ending up buying the excellent building they are in now. They have a great playspace, helpful staff, etc. The last time I was there happened to be on the weekend and the retail space was packed with people buying.The other store is not as large but they are more a mishmash of comics, manga, LARP stuff, board games etc. The playspace is not amazing only because it isn't separate from the retail, and there isn't a ton of space but it is clean and bright. They are very busy whenever I have been there. Retail game space is a lot more limited than the first store.There are also a lot of little stores in the malls trying to be little FLGS/FLCS, they seem somewhat busy.Gamecafe's seem to be going through the roof, more and more all the time and all seem fairly busy. I am sure the market will become oversaturated, and most small businesses don't survive very many years anyways but they are doing great now. As much as I see people saying they wouldn't pay for space, people are paying for space. Lots of these are also selling products retail, at MSRP typically, and people are paying it.Now, that's just the FLGS themselves, the truth is RPGs seem to be making up a smaller portion of them than ever, let alone the fact that smaller stores and cafe's don't seem to be even offering the product. Companies like Asmodee are making changes that will benefit local stores because their research says that it's worth it to them, so that might tilt things even further away from rpgs, will see I guess.</blockquote>

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