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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2392700" data-attributes="member: 2810">Probably short-sighted of the LGSs, although I can understand the reaction.  Still, I suspect it was more the bleed-off of the CCG business that irked them rather than the RPG.  Perhaps Xath or Queen Poppe...Dopplop...Queen D. can provide some insight, but I used to hit the Pentagon City store once every few months, and saw a definite trend away from the RPGs and towards the other stuff, not to mention the disappearance of non-WotC material.  I'd think that a FLGS interested in the RPG market for its own sake would have like having the WotC stores around, if for no other reason than they tended to be located where kids actually could wander in and be exposed to the hobby.The sad thing is is that this curious little pasttime of ours will likely never attract the sort of investment necessary to make it mainstream.  It's too small a fish for Hasbro, and too big an investment with too uncertain a return for a smaller company.  Although I really dislike much of what I've seen of the D&D MMORPG, I am at least hopeful that it might bring some fresh blood into the hobby.</blockquote>