The changes they are making regarding online sales to try to push more support onto the local game stores.
Do you have a link or something with more details?
Answering my own question:
https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/196161-ffgasmodeedays-of-wonder-consolidation/
http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/33314/asmodee-fantasy-flight-days-wonder-consolidate
No local store. Would love to have one, I would most certainly show up and play a couple of times a week.
I have enough room at home, but it's hard to attract someone that doesn't know anything about it. Having weekly meetings at a house is hard to get strangers to attend. A LGS is a neutral ground and makes it easier for casual observation if you aren't sure. It also allows you to show enthusiasm without being creepy about it... you know... like at work...
Someday I'll have one in my town, or retire and build one, or become really good at using the Vassal interface.
Start a club. Renting play space is not generally expensive (we get two big rooms at a local community centre from 19:00 to 22:30 for a tenner). No pressure to buy **** you don't want or need, and you don't have to put up with the socially or hygienically incapable. In the age of social media you don't even need an LGS to find players for a club, although if you are lucky enough to have a decent LGS it certainly helps. The only downside is that FFG seem to hate clubs with the same level of passion that the owners of crappy LGS' do.
Answering my own question:https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/196161-ffgasmodeedays-of-wonder-consolidation/http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/33314/asmodee-fantasy-flight-days-wonder-consolidateDo you have a link or something with more details?The changes they are making regarding online sales to try to push more support onto the local game stores.
There's a good breakdown here:
https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/49015/starting-2016-asmodee-will-operate-asmodee-north-a
If you read the https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/49015/starting-2016-asmodee-will-operate-asmodee-north-a link follow the game designers comments.
Read W. Eric Martin post and commentary at the top of page 11.
According to his interpretation of the article it looks like FFG is going to push prices up. Mostly this will hurt us the consumers. Forced price fixing doesn't help a market. Less games will be sold, its a lose lose.
Not the end of the world but not impressed with FFG if this is correct. Stores need to adapt to the marketplace not try to force clients to give them what they want. Piracy MP3 issue with the idiots in the music recording industry is a good example. They are still losing the fight instead of adapting to the changes and succeeding.
Both, although i have no friends my age that play. At home it's with my son, dad, stuff like that. Very casual, usually missions and such.
My club is awesome though! Big community, dedicated Star Wars game night, great food (not just little snacks, actual food), drinks, tables, game mats, and plenty of space. Not smelly at all!
Both, although i have no friends my age that play. At home it's with my son, dad, stuff like that. Very casual, usually missions and such.
My club is awesome though! Big community, dedicated Star Wars game night, great food (not just little snacks, actual food), drinks, tables, game mats, and plenty of space. Not smelly at all!
Well that's the difference between a club or mancave and an LGS. It's like comparing public transit to having your own party bus. I can only hope my own squad will obtain some sort of space within the next month.
Since I have no friends that play board games, the three FLGS's near me that run weekly X-Wing events and the occasional request on the X-Wing Michigan Facebook page are my only way of ever getting a game in. I can get 9 games a week in if I go on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.
Probably one of the reasons why I complain so much is that most of my games are in a competitive environment against power builds. I wouldn't have complained about the pre-nerf Phantom or Turretwing if all of my games were just kitchen table ones and at least 2/3rds of my games weren't against that stuff at the time either.
So without the FLGS's I wouldn't be playing this game.
I only buy from local stores at retail price. If the online prices go up but regular MSRP does not, this change will not affect me financially at all. In fact, I welcome it. I'd love to have more people bearing the burden of keeping the brick'n'mortar stores open.
There is not a lot of hard data for x-wing, but Wizards of The Coast has found that a good 90+% of their player base never play in a store and only on the "kitchen table."
I would not be surprised with a comparable stat for X-wing.
Would that be DnD or Magic?
Magic
DnD is only somewhat recently been pushed as a thing for an LGS to host