Quote Originally Posted by noodlers View Post
i disagree with you about 40k being a crap game, i have a lot of fun with friends painting and playing but i find that a vocal group of people try to ruin it for everyone else by trying to say "hey 40k sucks youre with me right?" that is not what you are doing here, you are being constructive so please dont take offense, but there have been a lot of people take their toys and go home and throw the molotov cocktail in behind them.

as far as dragons lair i could not agree with you more. they devote a ton of floor space in the store to 40k but leave it to crp to run the tournaments and hope that is ok with everyone. they have no store presence in our community as well as do not do any promotions of any type for 40k. i do not understand how a store could give so much real estate to a product and do so little to promote it.
I also have a lot of fun when playing 40k with the right people and the right armies but even those people can inadvertently stumble into the problems that 40k brings upon itself. I try hard to preach things to fix the game rather than be entirely negative (and ill admit i fail at this quite a lot). I have played this game for almost 20 years now and remember a time when it wasn't like this (rose tinted glasses or not). There were top tier armies for sure and issues with each edition of the game but nothing on par with what is the modern state of the game.

I do think part of the slow times and growth does lie at the feet of DL and other stores in Austin as San Antonio seems to have a thriving community of 40k and all other games, so clearly there are ways to grow the game in today's rules. And its not just 40k.

San Antonio had 4 pre-release events for Star Wars Armada, DL couldn't even communicate theirs when asked on 3 separate occasions and then held it without telling anyone.