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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 8683965" data-attributes="member: 6780330">ComicCon has over three times the attendance of GenCon, many of whom are also players of the game. GenCon is a tiny percentage of the player base, for that matter. For the cost of attending GenCon, one random Convention attended by a random percentage of the fanbase, they can attend several other Cons, like GaryCon or GameHoleCon, and reach many of the same people, and indeed probably more of a wide swathe. Time and money for attending conventions is not infinite.I've never been to any Con in the Midwest, and neither will most D&D players. Indeed, it's sort of insulting to brush away the majority of D&D players as "casual pop culture fans." The game is marketed to middle schoolers, high schoolers, and college students that like pop culture and art. It always was, WotC explicitly was doing that back in 3E.It really does make sense that they would avoid one particularly, expensive convention that is attended by a small fraction of the player base. Sometimes, it is simply about ROI numbers on a spreadsheet, and industry convention attendance is precisely one of those times. Always was. 20 years ago, GenCon was deemed worth the ROI. Now, it isn't. Simple as that. It was always a cold financial decision, not a "Celebration of True Non-Casual Fans" or something.</blockquote>