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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5165615" data-attributes="member: 15651">This one is highly unlikely, except for children with parents who are already gamers, so it won't do much to grow the market.&nbsp; &nbsp; The hobby store where I learned to play as a kid 30 years ago <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> was a small store in a not-too-big town. The owner of the store was well-known and well-liked in town and had his own kids around the same age.&nbsp; As a result the parents trusted him to keep an eye on the kids who were gaming there.As a parent myself now, I don't have a game store where I feel I know the staff well enough that I would trust my pre-teen kids to participate in gaming events there, unless I joined in.&nbsp; Imagine what that would be like for parents who are not gamers?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 5165615, member: 15651"] This one is highly unlikely, except for children with parents who are already gamers, so it won't do much to grow the market. The hobby store where I learned to play as a kid 30 years ago :eek: was a small store in a not-too-big town. The owner of the store was well-known and well-liked in town and had his own kids around the same age. As a result the parents trusted him to keep an eye on the kids who were gaming there. As a parent myself now, I don't have a game store where I feel I know the staff well enough that I would trust my pre-teen kids to participate in gaming events there, unless I joined in. Imagine what that would be like for parents who are not gamers? [/QUOTE]

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