GenCon 2003 in Indy -- Why it will be better

[fett527]

There is AAA baseball in Victory Field often called the best Minor League Ballpark.

I'll have to go to a game Brown Jenkin because even though were Single A, the Dayton Dragon's Fifth Third Field is pretty awesome.

I have to believe that Enkhidu, dshai527 and myself will be attending. All we have to do is hop on I-70 and come on over! Less than 3 hours! I hope it will be as much fun as I think it will. Also hope there's lots of chain mail bikini clad booth babes!

 

[Dagger75]

I went to Gen Con in 2000 and signed for the hotel the second day of registration. My room was 2 miles away from the con. I went to Dragon Con and got my room 1 week before the convention, my hotel was 3 blocks from the con.

Now granted I felt safer walking the 2 miles to my hotel in Milwaukee then I did walking through Atlanta at 2am, Atlanta was easier to get around. I wish they would hold Gen Con in Orlando (only and hour or so from my house) but Indy is closer than Milwaukee for me.

I think Gen Con will do better in a city that is made for conventions. Milwaukee is nice, the people there are great but Gen Con out grew the city.

 

[Crothian]

I'll have to go to a game Brown Jenkin because even though were Single A, the Dayton Dragon's Fifth Third Field is pretty awesome.

I have to believe that Enkhidu, dshai527 and myself will be attending. All we have to do is hop on I-70 and come on over! Less than 3 hours! I hope it will be as much fun as I think it will. Also hope there's lots of chain mail bikini clad booth babes!

I hope to be attending as well. I'm just a bout an hour farther away.

 

[Wikidogre]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GenCon 2003 in Indy -- Why it will be better

You mean start swimming now?

At that pace you'd arrive here in Columbus about the time of Origins. It would work out perfectly.

nice!, hell ill go!

 

[buzzard]

Doesn't that area of the States have Origins close by? Why do they have to take away Wisconsin's GenCon? Wisconsin is home to D&D!!! (I know, I know -- Indiana will be better, and Milwaukee doesn't want GenCon any more, but it's just so darn inconvenient for me to get to Indiana!)

Oh cry me a river.
I'm out in Colorado and I'm thinking of going next year. There's people coming from bloody Europe and you're complaining about a 2 state drive? You've been spoiled for far too many years.

Buzzard

 

[Mixmaster]

BUMP

 

[RatPunk]

It will take a lot for Indy to be cleaner and friendlier than Milwaukee.

Really? You must have been staying in a different Milwaukee than I was this year...

The area around the Indy convention center is nowhere near as rundown and dirty looking as alot of Downtown Milwaukee that I've seen over the past few years.

Don't get me wrong, I liked Milwaukee, but Downtown Indy is a MUCH better area.

 

[DynaMup]

I want to get out to the USA next year for Gen Con, but it all depends on when I start work...I'll have only just graduated from university, and will doubtless have absolutely no money at all! Having said that, it would be a blast...so long as someone could house a British tourist

 

[Mistwell]

I was referring to the cradle of D&D being Wisconsin and our discussion about Wisconsin having more RPGers than other areas of the US, etc. I thought you were going to check into that after folks got back from Gencon, weren't you?

I may stand corrected, though it is unclear really. See below response from WOTC Customer Service:

I asked:

Some of us over at Enworld.com have been wondering about the distribution of gamers among the various US states. I'm not asking for specific sales numbers (unless you are willing to provide them of course), I'm just wondering if you can give us a vague hint as to gaming population distribution.

Are gamers spread out fairly evenly among the various US states, making up a similar percentage of total state population over all states, or do gaming populations tend to clump in certain areas. For example, since D&D started in Wisconsin, does that state have a significantly higher gamer population than, say, California (in total numbers and in percentage of population numbers)? Is gaming more popular on the east and west coast, or in the
midwest? Any information you can provide would be helpful

WOTC Customer Service answered:

--It does seem to be more popular in the midwest in the WI/IL/OH areas. Out west, people are into more outdoor activities. The eastern seaboard has a respectable percentage, especially in the college towns. So upper midwest is tops, the east coast is middling, then west.

Unfortunately it seems WOTC Customer Service might be focusing on percentage of a given state's population composed of gamers, rather than total number of gamers. There was no detail on total number of gamers. For example, California has 34,501,130 people, and Wisconsin has 5,401,906. So if 1 percent of the population of California plays RPGs, and 5 times that percentage plays RPGs in Wisconsin, you still have 345,011 people playing RPGs in California to 270,095 gamers in Wisconsin.

On the other hand, it could be WOTC was focusing on the spread of the percentages of total gamer population, and stating that the highest percentage of gamers is in the midwest, and the lowest is out west, which would likely mean there are more gamers, total, in Wisconsin than in California.

As with most WOTC answers, it is vague and open to interpretation (which may be my fault for asking such an open ended question). But it does at least seem somewhat likely I was incorrect.

 

[Mark]

As with most WOTC answers, it is vague and open to interpretation (which may be my fault for asking such an open ended question). But it does at least seem somewhat likely I was incorrect.

Possibly. It may be that they are using my own interpretation, which is admittedly based on inference, or that they are being vague while still relying on hard numbers that they aren't willing to divulge. I'd say the jury is still out on this one until we can find a way to nail down someone with actual information they will share.

Well played on your letter, though. It stated the objective clearly despite the result being unsatisfactory. I'll let you know if more comes my way and please do the same for me.