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<blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2522189" data-attributes="member: 945"><p>I remembered an "ugly"</p><p></p><p>On Sunday, I had my two little manilla envelopes for the two official games that I ran. I had to collect the cards, fill out the game info on the packet, and then give them to someone at a booth.</p><p></p><p>This is how the conversation went:</p><p></p><p>me: *hands him the two envelopes*</p><p>guy: "thanks"</p><p>me: "So, will they reimburse my account, or how does that work?"</p><p>guy: "Did you just run the two games?" ( I ran others, but they were pick-up games)</p><p>me: "Yes"</p><p>guy: "You didn't run enough games to get reimbursed. You need to run more games."</p><p>me: "So, what you're saying is that I wasted my time filling these out?"</p><p>guy: "No, we use the information to see how many players showed up for the games."</p><p>me: "So, Gen Con gets some use out of it, but it was a waste of my time, because I get nothing?"</p><p>guy: "No, we use it see how successfull your games are, and we give you preference when booking tables in the future."</p><p>me: "I've never had a problem getting a table for any game I've ever ran."</p><p>guy: ...</p><p>me: "whatever" *leaves*</p><p></p><p></p><p>So, the game process is totally whack IMO. I think from now on I'll just run pick-up games. Or, I could run like one game, take a bunch of generics for the game, and then just keep them, and use them myself. Stupid.</p><p></p><p>What irks me about this was that I made two guys from Thursday's game go and buy generics for the game. They didn't know they needed them to play, and since I thought I was going to get some reimbursement for the game, I figured I'd take them. Had I known that, I would have just let them play for free, since I got nothing out of it.</p><p></p><p>The system is broken.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="der_kluge, post: 2522189, member: 945"] I remembered an "ugly" On Sunday, I had my two little manilla envelopes for the two official games that I ran. I had to collect the cards, fill out the game info on the packet, and then give them to someone at a booth. This is how the conversation went: me: *hands him the two envelopes* guy: "thanks" me: "So, will they reimburse my account, or how does that work?" guy: "Did you just run the two games?" ( I ran others, but they were pick-up games) me: "Yes" guy: "You didn't run enough games to get reimbursed. You need to run more games." me: "So, what you're saying is that I wasted my time filling these out?" guy: "No, we use the information to see how many players showed up for the games." me: "So, Gen Con gets some use out of it, but it was a waste of my time, because I get nothing?" guy: "No, we use it see how successfull your games are, and we give you preference when booking tables in the future." me: "I've never had a problem getting a table for any game I've ever ran." guy: ... me: "whatever" *leaves* So, the game process is totally whack IMO. I think from now on I'll just run pick-up games. Or, I could run like one game, take a bunch of generics for the game, and then just keep them, and use them myself. Stupid. What irks me about this was that I made two guys from Thursday's game go and buy generics for the game. They didn't know they needed them to play, and since I thought I was going to get some reimbursement for the game, I figured I'd take them. Had I known that, I would have just let them play for free, since I got nothing out of it. The system is broken. [/QUOTE]
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