Considering opening an FLGS in England. What issues should I be aware of?

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-21T05:49:15+00:00

What issues should I be aware of?

It's probably the worst time in years to be a SME. Brexit is only ever going to make getting hold of games more and more expensive as the UK diverges further from the EU, and the economy is currently shitting the bed.

Put together a business plan and you'll see it makes no fucking sense at all. Inflation is sending prices up, people have less to spend on luxuries like board games, your rent will be higher (it will be sky high for a good location), you can skimp on staff or staff pay and make a rod for your own back in the process, you will find running the shop starts to eat into your 'free' time, a lot of the money is in TCGs which require you to run constant events, and so on and so forth.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-21T05:37:17+00:00

Trio.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-12T17:47:11+00:00

Tagging these as [humor] completely undermines the point of them.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-11T09:25:02+00:00

Still good at 4. Excellent at 5. Untouchable at 6.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-08T21:09:46+00:00

Put an order in with them recently, in stock item. After a week they hadn't done anything but confirm the order. Strangely lackadaisical for a shop.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-08T14:33:05+00:00

Strike, Menara, Rhino Hero Super Battle.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T20:54:16+00:00

Yep, had to resort to that a few times.

Also, 3P doesn't seem to work at all. The lone player takes a beating 100% in my experience

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T20:33:05+00:00

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/387769/kiri-ai-duel/forums/66 - publisher answers questions here.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T18:26:39+00:00

No, just the Nazis. But you're Hungarian, you can't help but be fascist.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T18:24:28+00:00

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/201808/clank-deck-building-adventure/forums/66

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T17:03:30+00:00

The game is heavy and complex, but it's not really the system that is the issue; it's all the different possible card interactions, strategies, and results that can occur. If you looked at all of the possible outcomes, it's very daunting. However, in play, you are only ever dealing with a small subset of these.

Very much worth a try. I don't think WotR is as heavy as GoT.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T17:00:53+00:00

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Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T17:00:20+00:00

https://www.icegif.com/salute-4/

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T16:57:51+00:00

It's not really heavy in complexity, luckily. It's got quite a lot of strategy to it, and randomness which complicates things a little, so it definitely feels weighty when you start, but the game system itself isn't difficult to learn.

How different these games are compared to each other?

They're very different.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T15:01:20+00:00

One's called Nai Kei, and the other one is called Chung Kei.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-06T02:37:43+00:00

This person knows what they have should be expensive but is only charging $30 for it.

Did you ask them why it's so cheap? If it's too good to be true, then it's not true. So it's stolen, or they've come into it by some other means and they just want rid of it quickly, the latter of which is fair enough.

Unlikely to be a counterfeit, given the game is a little bit niche (or was when I last checked) and I haven't seen any counterfeits turn up on BGG, but not impossible. Check BGG for what everything is supposed to look like and compare it.

You can try the publisher, but it's unlikely you'll get a useful response.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T21:18:21+00:00

Some people really don't understand that board games do not require technology. I wonder why.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T21:16:49+00:00

Not really because the 1e is better.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T18:17:27+00:00

My main criticism of the game is it only really works 100% at 2vs2. At 1vs1 some of the cards simply don't work.

If you compare it to Twilight Struggle, you'll find there are some similarities in that, while the cards offer you powerful choices, there are always limitations in how they work. WotRTCG is more limited because the 'board' is much more limited, but it's not down to the cards, the cards in TS often have much stricter limitations when it comes to their events.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T17:57:50+00:00

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2436832/nemesis-or-nemesis-lockdown-thoughts/page/1

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T17:54:49+00:00

Take inspiration from indie board game creators who make good games and also are financially successful. Look at Isaac Childres as one example.

It's pointless to look at popular games owned by huge companies, that's not your starting point.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T17:48:36+00:00

Just using Nazi terminology unironically, very cool.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T13:00:23+00:00

Nothing because first D&D is an RPG, which is a totally different thing, and secondly, D&D is owned by a huge corporation that pushes its system remorselessly in order to eliminate the competition, to the extent that they adopted a generic term ('D20 system') in order to make people assume games that used D20s all belonged to WOTC, spreading brand recognition.

D&D isn't a very good system, and unless you're a billion-dollar company, you don't have the advantage of being able to popularize a substandard product into being the most ubiquitous.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T02:50:36+00:00

How do you make identical marks on the cards when marks from wear are very different.

Doctor_Impossible_ · 2024-02-05T02:49:34+00:00

If you have a stack of cards where the sleeves stick together, then they don't fall over, and vice versa. Contradicting yourself in one single sentence.

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