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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8684701" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Not really?  GenCon is a business, they charge vendors to be there, and every vendor has to decide if it's worth the money to be there or not.  Wizards decided a while back that the convention circuit doesn't work for them, their staff isn't trained to do it well, and so isn't worth the expense to do, so they let Baldman Games be their reps at conventions for D&D and Pasttimes be their reps at conventions for MtG.  Games get run by people who are pros at running games at conventions, they get the visibility for their product, they're not running a vendor booth (which experience at Origins in the past tells me they were very, very bad at doing), and everyone basically wins.  (also their logo doesn't get slapped on everything and they don't get accused of dominating the con and pushing smaller companies out - which they often were accused of back when they actually had a significant con presence).</p></blockquote><p></p>