Quote from: Theory of Games;1098257It's ugly.

The internet has changed the process. I buy my games online mostly because my LGS carries s***.

I can't support a store with limited shelves.

Instead of supporting stores that no longer want my demographic as a customer, I just buy online directly from the companies. And it's often cheaper/faster doing so.

Quote from: Theory of Games;1098257It's ugly.

The internet has changed the process. I buy my games online mostly because my LGS carries s***.

I can't support a store with limited shelves.

Alot of game stores though will order books for you if you ask. My hometown book store was just about my only source of game material purchases. All I had to do was ask and if they could they would get it for me.

I can remember back in the day when D&D was stocked in the back of hobby shops with the cross-stitching and stencil art supplies.

Quote from: Haffrung;1098275I can remember back in the day when D&D was stocked in the back of hobby shops with the cross-stitching and stencil art supplies.

If only you had gone to a better class of hobby store you would have found RPGs two aisles down from model trains, right next to the Airfix models.

Quote from: Theory of Games;1098257It's ugly.

The internet has changed the process. I buy my games online mostly because my LGS carries s***.

I can't support a store with limited shelves.

It's simply cause and effect.  Still, I know some stores won't even touch a product if it was funded by kickstarter.

Quote from: Omega;1098265Alot of game stores though will order books for you if you ask. My hometown book store was just about my only source of game material purchases. All I had to do was ask and if they could they would get it for me.

There are issues with distributors as well. Going back quite a few years I had a small game shop just down the street that I wanted to support because game shop within walking distance of my home. Ordering stuff was a nightmare because the distributor they used really only supplied the big name stuff (d20 at the time). There were a lot of times that the distributor would come back and say that a new product was out of print or otherwise unavailable. I wanted to support the guy but when I could get something within a week ordering direct online vs 3+ weeks of back and forth it wasn't worth it.

I gather that is an issue with most of the game distributors of which there are only a handful. I imagine it has only gotten worse, not better since it has only gotten easier for people to get the smaller company stuff online.

Quote from: David Johansen;1098319It's simply cause and effect.  Still, I know some stores won't even touch a product if it was funded by kickstarter.

That is in part due to rampant backer screwing over by developers in favour of stores. The list is VERY long of KS campaigns that funded and shipped on time. To the stores. The regular backers? Oh we'll get around to that some year... maybee.

Quote from: Omega;1098424That is in part due to rampant backer screwing over by developers in favour of stores. The list is VERY long of KS campaigns that funded and shipped on time. To the stores. The regular backers? Oh we'll get around to that some year... maybee.

That's the most stupid business decision you could make after going woke. First your backers, then the shops. It's a one time scam, you'll never regain the good will of the people to back you again. While if you act like a decent human being you can run several campaigns and keep on making some cash.