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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 3467714" data-attributes="member: 36597">As someone who has every issue of The Avengers, Fantastic Four, The Defenders, The Amazing Spider-Man, and other comic titles going from the very start through the mid-1990s in some print form or another, I know where you're coming from.  But, at the same time when I've had to move, it means transporting nearly fifty comic boxes and spending hours setting up my shelves once again.  I've finally gotten to the age (40) where I've said its the content I enjoy, not the package.  Screw nostalgia - I haven't opened most of the boxed up and bagged comics since 2000, and I'm contemplating selling the majority of them now that the comics are available on CD-ROM.  That wasn't necessarily directed at you, but there are earlier posters who proudly proclaim that while they don't purchase gaming books at their FLGS anymore they help keep them in business by using them as their Dungeon/Dragon magazine source.  I'm just saying that with friends like these their FLGS will continue to have chronic problems staying in business.  Next time buy something with a bigger margin such as a book, or better yet an outrageously marked up back issue comic!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Not wanting to prove you wrong, but how about looking at it like this:* People on these boards and on other web sites have been lamenting that d20 material  has been selling less and less since 3.5 came out.* People are going to play the game they want to play, no matter what the companies that produce them do in the long run.  There are gaming groups that still play 2nd edition, and I've heard wild rumors of people who still play OD&D.  Whatever the changes WoTC makes, its in their best interest to keep the current game alive in the long run.  * You have the luxury of calling it quits at anytime and walk away from the game with years of fond memoires.  Hasbro on the otherhand has to come up with creative ways to attract new players.  The really hard part for Hasbro is that often the very things which will attract new players will annoy old players.* You run a horse buggy business and have seen it decline for several years with the introduction of the horseless carriage.  Should you keep on making buggies just because horses are beautiful and noble animals?  What does your family say about your decision as they slowly grow hungerier?Just something to think about.</blockquote>

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