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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1556116" data-attributes="member: 8447"><p>I think it is easy enough to state that rpgs are having a tough time at the moment. The number of shops carrying rpgs (of <em>any</em> manufacturer) in the Bay Area of California has been dropping for several years; my local FLGS is likely to drop them next year due to declining sales.</p><p></p><p>We, in the middle of good, healthy games see the hobby doing quite well, thankyouverymuch, but I'm not sure sales in general would bear this trend out. Video/ computer games are the big winners at the moment, beating out movies.</p><p></p><p>Now <em>why</em> this is happening is a different matter. I do not believe this is a roll- vs. role-playing matter, but a short attention span, hooked to special effects matter. RPGs require that you sit (comparatively) still, enter into a shared worlds, know the rules (to a greater or lesser extent), and have times when the action slows down. RPGs are not constantly shiny, moving on hyperspeed, with amazing graphics, 5.1 surround sound, and the like. </p><p></p><p>These are personal opinions only, of course, but I think they would be born out with a study.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 1556116, member: 8447"] I think it is easy enough to state that rpgs are having a tough time at the moment. The number of shops carrying rpgs (of [I]any[/I] manufacturer) in the Bay Area of California has been dropping for several years; my local FLGS is likely to drop them next year due to declining sales. We, in the middle of good, healthy games see the hobby doing quite well, thankyouverymuch, but I'm not sure sales in general would bear this trend out. Video/ computer games are the big winners at the moment, beating out movies. Now [I]why[/I] this is happening is a different matter. I do not believe this is a roll- vs. role-playing matter, but a short attention span, hooked to special effects matter. RPGs require that you sit (comparatively) still, enter into a shared worlds, know the rules (to a greater or lesser extent), and have times when the action slows down. RPGs are not constantly shiny, moving on hyperspeed, with amazing graphics, 5.1 surround sound, and the like. These are personal opinions only, of course, but I think they would be born out with a study. [/QUOTE]
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