I’ve been watching for like 7 years Juswannasay I reeally do appreciate you and your honest perspective. Many of us watch and move on without letting you know. But today I really do wanna thank you. The random flow of your videos are a refreshing reminder of the importance of the. Lgs and the framework behind it. You’re amazing bro. Keep up the great work. And know that even when you’re not making videos we still root for you.❤
Thank you for the kind words. Sometimes I tend to gravitate towards the negative, read too much into the hostile messages and suffer a bit too much from imposters syndrome. These types of messages recharge me. Thank you again.
It's been a long strange trip but I've certainly enjoyed watching the ups and downs of game store life with you guys. Your locals are lucky to have such a good store. I'm trying to play less mainstream tcgs these days and finding a game store that does anything other than MTG and Warhammer is tough.
We are starting to get good locals again. The most frustrating time in our existence was definitely feeling under-apprecaiated for our efforts here locally, I know I could make a lot more money doing something else, but Zach and I really did choose the main reason to start a store is to provide something for this community that we thought it needed. There are days though that I just want to burn it all down and say screw it, lets go build mini-homes and take that juicy tourist money that is exploding here in this area...
@@GoneRogueGames I think you made the right call. Gotta do what you love. Any other job would have had its share of problems too. Just different ones. :)
Fondation: In this saturated market, not good for regular players but... If marketing is done correctly, it might attrack some newer players. Mtg cycle has always been like that... ABU arabian nights--->The dark, every store were lacking product and asking for more without getting it, then came the complete flood of Fallen empires, then iceage, followed by the worst set ever (Homelands) and questionable reprints (Chronicles), then a very popular product with low supply (Alliance)... followed by a stable market (Good balance between supply and demand) Mirage/Vision/Weatherlight... I think carefull LGS can survive in this industry. Reckless ones can be lucky for a while, but ends up losing. Nice video ;)
Agreed, there is still so much bloat running around from products that were supposed to be "evergreen" or intro. Challenger decks, intro decks, even old planeswalker decks. Too much bloat that I don't really think leads anywhere.
So sounds like you want sales to only happen for LGS. There are many business models as you explained, and a LGS dosnt get monopoly over everyone. You laid out the facts as to why a small basement seller succeedes and you seem jealous on that take
You are correct, and there is nothing wrong for having this jealous take. Local Game Stores are little sales forces, promoting and expanding the game. They care about the health and cultivation because of first passion, and second it literally effects their bottom line. I find the majority (not all) basement sellers absolutely parasitical. Most don't care about the game, you will sell incense and candles after your destroy the market, you don't care and will move on to whatever market you can exploit next. That is why if distributors and manufacturers are smart, they weed this crap out and make sure their strategic partners can be successful.
let me be clear, I am NOT blaming the basement sellers, people will always make a buck where they can and there is nothing wrong with it. The buck stops with manufacturers and distributors realizing why creating an environment where the overhead-less sellers outcompete the actual stores providing play-space and promotion is a bad idea. My fight is mainly with them, not basement sellers.
I’ve been watching for like 7 years
Juswannasay I reeally do appreciate you and your honest perspective. Many of us watch and move on without letting you know. But today I really do wanna thank you. The random flow of your videos are a refreshing reminder of the importance of the. Lgs and the framework behind it. You’re amazing bro. Keep up the great work. And know that even when you’re not making videos we still root for you.❤
Thank you for the kind words. Sometimes I tend to gravitate towards the negative, read too much into the hostile messages and suffer a bit too much from imposters syndrome. These types of messages recharge me. Thank you again.
Love these types of videos! Worth contributing towards their production via Patreon!!
A freaking men! LGSes are the heart and soul of every tabletop game, period.
emotionless cash flow businesses are bae
I love watching your videos to hear your new complaints :)
The prerelease kits were a good deal. Missed that one.
I am sure more deals are around the corner, love to save everyone money even though those Free-for-alls were a pain!
Keep the content coming love it
Keep up the vids 👍
It's been a long strange trip but I've certainly enjoyed watching the ups and downs of game store life with you guys. Your locals are lucky to have such a good store. I'm trying to play less mainstream tcgs these days and finding a game store that does anything other than MTG and Warhammer is tough.
We are starting to get good locals again. The most frustrating time in our existence was definitely feeling under-apprecaiated for our efforts here locally, I know I could make a lot more money doing something else, but Zach and I really did choose the main reason to start a store is to provide something for this community that we thought it needed. There are days though that I just want to burn it all down and say screw it, lets go build mini-homes and take that juicy tourist money that is exploding here in this area...
@@GoneRogueGames I think you made the right call. Gotta do what you love. Any other job would have had its share of problems too. Just different ones. :)
Favor if you have a whole lot of Bloomburrow commander decks and Duskmourn commander decks for the first 2 weeks of release.
Just not seeing a future in paper. No real reason to bother driving down to the smelly store when I can play arena on the toilet.
👍can't wait for the next video.
Fondation: In this saturated market, not good for regular players but... If marketing is done correctly, it might attrack some newer players.
Mtg cycle has always been like that... ABU arabian nights--->The dark, every store were lacking product and asking for more without getting it, then came the complete flood of Fallen empires, then iceage, followed by the worst set ever (Homelands) and questionable reprints (Chronicles), then a very popular product with low supply (Alliance)... followed by a stable market (Good balance between supply and demand) Mirage/Vision/Weatherlight...
I think carefull LGS can survive in this industry. Reckless ones can be lucky for a while, but ends up losing.
Nice video ;)
Agreed, there is still so much bloat running around from products that were supposed to be "evergreen" or intro. Challenger decks, intro decks, even old planeswalker decks. Too much bloat that I don't really think leads anywhere.
Spoiler: no, distribution will make sure nothing favors LGS's.
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So sounds like you want sales to only happen for LGS. There are many business models as you explained, and a LGS dosnt get monopoly over everyone. You laid out the facts as to why a small basement seller succeedes and you seem jealous on that take
It's a gatekeeping culture with people inserting themselves as a middle man and think they deserve all the money.
You are correct, and there is nothing wrong for having this jealous take. Local Game Stores are little sales forces, promoting and expanding the game. They care about the health and cultivation because of first passion, and second it literally effects their bottom line. I find the majority (not all) basement sellers absolutely parasitical. Most don't care about the game, you will sell incense and candles after your destroy the market, you don't care and will move on to whatever market you can exploit next. That is why if distributors and manufacturers are smart, they weed this crap out and make sure their strategic partners can be successful.
let me be clear, I am NOT blaming the basement sellers, people will always make a buck where they can and there is nothing wrong with it. The buck stops with manufacturers and distributors realizing why creating an environment where the overhead-less sellers outcompete the actual stores providing play-space and promotion is a bad idea. My fight is mainly with them, not basement sellers.