GenCon SoCal Throws In the Towel 36
The official GenCon website is hosting the official press release with the news: the West coast GenCon is no more. Citing 'competing shows' in the Southern California area, the RPG convention is closing up shop so that staff can focus on the Midwestern/East Coast Flagship event GenCon Indy. In an open letter from Peter Adkinson, he states how much he regrets this decision, and describes the four years of the event as well as the decision-making that led to this state of affairs. In his long discussion of the event, he downplays the attempt to merge with the IDG event and the inclusion of videogames into the GenCon formula. Though it's not listed as a root cause, the death of E3 would seem to be having a ripple effect here as well. He makes sure to point out that GenCon Indy isn't going anywhere, and that this year's 40th anniversary should be an interesting one.
What's Next I Wonder... (Score:4, Insightful)
Is the internet to blame (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Not GenCon Indy's 40th... (Score:1, Insightful)
2. Gen Con would still be in Milwaukee if there was enough space. The city opted not to expand the number of available hotel rooms, so Gen Con did what it had to do.
If you're going to lie, do a better job of it. (Score:3, Insightful)
2. Gen Con would still be in Milwaukee, if the organizers had been willing to move it back one weekend.
Milwaukee has TONS of hotel space. It's just hard to hold an event in the city when you're on the same weekend as the Wisconsin State Fair's final weekend.
Instead, they moved it to Indy... and now the same complaints (lack of hotel space mostly) are coming back, and none of the vendors want to drive all they way to fucking boring Indianapolis.
Re:Is the internet to blame (Score:3, Insightful)
Given that I now move from place to place, the Internet is really the only way I'd know about a con.
That said, my reasons to go to a con?