Origins Up 11%; Maintains #4 Spot

LuisCarlos17f · Jun 26, 2019

Maybe we are in the beginning of a golden age for RPGs because the bubble of the videogame industry will burst relatively soon. More people want to play with the imagination and create their own fanart stories.

Ralif Redhammer · Jun 26, 2019

Origins changed the arrangement of registration and pre-registration lines and it flowed quicker and smoother than prior years.

The dealer's room seemed more crowded, definitely.

Morrus · Jun 26, 2019

Ralif Redhammer said:
The dealer's room seemed more crowded, definitely.

It had fewer vendors than last year.

Ralif Redhammer · Jun 26, 2019

Funny, it felt like more hemmed-in, with more congestion.

Morrus said:
It had fewer vendors than last year.

schneeland · Jun 26, 2019

LuisCarlos17f said:
Maybe we are in the beginning of a golden age for RPGs because the bubble of the videogame industry will burst relatively soon. More people want to play with the imagination and create their own fanart stories.

A collapse of the video gaming industry seems unlikely to me - there might be a temporary drought of interesting titles due to the shift to the next console generation, but otherwise, it seems, video games do quite well (especially if we factor in mobile, too).
Still, I think the rather accessible 5th edition of D&D, in conjunction with the rise of streaming, crowdfunding of interesting indie titles and a bit of nostalgia seems to bring a lot of people old and new to TTRPGs.

LuisCarlos17f · Jun 27, 2019

I don't talk about a collapse, but a bubble bursting, they are different things.

jedijon · Jun 27, 2019

I think people want to be on their phones. And if that fails, a computer as a very distant second.

HorusZA · Jun 27, 2019

I dunno... Essen feels bigger than GenCon.
I suspect that there are way more day visitors at Essen so a larger percentage of the turnstile visitors would be unique.

Regardless, very happy to see that numbers are up across the board.

Jer · Jun 27, 2019

Ralif Redhammer said:
Funny, it felt like more hemmed-in, with more congestion.

Which day? Thursday felt super cramped in the vendor hall this year, but the other three days I think it felt fine.

The same was true of last year too - Thursday was super busy. My impression is that there are a lot more folks who are showing up Thursday than in the past - it definitely feels like the traffic I used to expect to deal with on Fridays has shifted to Thursdays.

(Also the trend continues of vendors buying larger areas, which I noticed last year. I'm not surprised to hear that there were fewer vendors, though I thought part of the reason for larger booths was the distribution of some vendors into Halls C and A and out of the main Hall B area allowing for more vendors to buy larger booth spaces.)

Origins Up 11%; Maintains #4 Spot

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