Adkison's Gen Con report

[Staffan]

Only one man can save GenCon UK, and that man is:

Peter Adkinson

Adkison.

 

[GravyFingerz]

I would like to reiterate my statement of how Peter Adkinson is the man.

Peter Adkinson is the man

 

[JoeGKushner]

I would like to reiterate my statement of how Peter Adkinson is the man.

Peter Adkinson is the man

Like I said, "Gee, now that you've admited how wrong you were Peter, we love you!"

Not me by a long shot. I don't hate the man but this 'observation' of the FUBAR situation doesn't make him okay in my book until something is done.

 

[GravyFingerz]

Like I said, "Gee, now that you've admited how wrong you were Peter, we love you!"

Not me by a long shot. I don't hate the man but this 'observation' of the FUBAR situation doesn't make him okay in my book until something is done.

Yes, we loves the Adkinson verys much ... he is our precious, our precious Adkinson ... we loves him, wes kill for him ... our precious

 

[Bagpuss]

All I'm suggesting is prehaps he should have started smaller, perhaps picking the largest RPG conventions on the globe was a bit too much for him to start with.

Perhaps he could have started out with trying to organise a piss-up in a brewery for example?

 

[der_kluge]

Careful guys, or your gonna give Staffan a heart attack if you keep putting an "n" in his last name.

 

[shouit]

Peter, assuming you are reading this, I'd like to offer a brief comment. The Gen Con website isn't particularly friendly to people after the pre-reg date passes. You cannot view the event schedule at that point, unless you attempt to trick the system into thinking you are pre-reged. In addition, near and at the date of the event, many of the pages still read "under contruction" (or something similar). This hurts entities like the press, who want to go there and get further information about scheduled events.

Thanks.

Same goes with dealers. I was going to go and work a booth for a friend but not the entire time, and wanted to sign up for events, but could not.. Please fix..

 

[Carnifex]

I don't like the fact that Peter Akinson cancel GenCon UK, but I think his reasoning is sound. I'm sorry you suffer for it, but there really nothing we can do. Only one man can save GenCon UK, and that man is:

Peter Adkinson

No, Adkison killed Gencon UK. He might be able to resurrect it - possibly - but with his current move it seems that we'll have to rely on someone else to save it.

His reasoning wasn't sound. He took over an expanding con with a decent track record and a group of experienced partakers, and he appears to have quite royally buggered it up. Then he washes his hands of the resulting wreckage, leaving someone else to pick up the pieces. Nice one.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

No, Adkison killed Gencon UK. He might be able to resurrect it - possibly - but with his current move it seems that we'll have to rely on someone else to save it.

His reasoning wasn't sound. He took over an expanding con with a decent track record and a group of experienced partakers, and he appears to have quite royally buggered it up. Then he washes his hands of the resulting wreckage, leaving someone else to pick up the pieces. Nice one.

But at least its open for someone to pick it up again. GenCon Europe isn't completely dead, and its still very much salvagable. Someone just needs to step in and get that license. And yes, GenCon Europe matters to me a lot, because next year I'll be IN the UK to live...and I would love to have GenCon still going over there.

 

[Coreyartus]

My biggest concern is that this is taken care of by GenConSoCal, not next year in Indianapolis. There have been many, many good ideas on this list about how to fix the problems that happened, and it shouldn't take a year to implement them.

I would re-iterate the preprinting idea--there's no reason for onsight printing if it's not necessary.

I've never been to a GenCon. I've never met Mr. Adkison. I can tell he cares a lot about gaming though, and wants to do GenCon right so we can all enjoy ourselves. Every year, however, I hear nightmare stories about some aspect of the convention that's absolutely horrible and somewhat mentally debilitating... If it's not the Generic tickets it's noise, if it's not lines it's air conditioning, if it's not dealer room hours it's missing DM's, if it's not RPGA coordination catastrophes it's lack of water or money... It would seem to me that after all these years of "bad examples/mistakes", GenCon would finally be operating as a well-oiled machine.

I have to wonder why it isn't. It should be. The problems are clear. They've been clear for many years, it seems. Kudos for standing up and taking responsiblity, Mr. Adkison, but as any business man knows, the bottom line is that people speak with their wallets. Cancelling EuroGenCon, Registration snafus at GenConIndy... It would be a shame if GenConSoCal is the straw that breaks the camels back...

Coreyartus