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Message: <blockquote data-quote="krushido" data-source="post: 1032378">Thanks for your honest and accurate portrayel of what I and two of my friends also just went through, except we never actually paid the money to see a half hour of the convention.  After an over four hour wait in the "Line From Hell" we finally got shuffled to a supposed quicker line, and then waited for a half hour as the staff just scratched their heads and looked at a broken printer.  Wondering aloud why they couldn't hand write these simple things, the spokesperson for this group came over to the line.  Just to tell one visitor after he asked for a free badge or sometype of discount, that he was ignorant, and than to ask the rest of the line if we were there for badges... Was he brain dead... we had just wasted over seven hours of our day for this thing (I also came from Chicago), and this was the stupidest thing I had ever heard.My female friend was about done with it all (We want more females in gaming, this lost one), she has a foot condition, and waiting in the line had made her worse, she was limping by now, and so she just blew up, and yelled out: what the heck do you think we're doing!This idiot told her to go to back of the line, and started saying stuff like people had waited for six hours the other day (like he was proud of it), and that he saw a line like this in Milwaukee and was too smart to wait in it.  I yelled out that he had no right to talk to my friend that way, and that I wanted his name.  Of course he ignored me... he couldn't face a rational anger.My other friend was so pissed off he just left, as did my other friend and myself.  I will NEVER go to Gen Con again.  And forsee it as a dying convention.If you are a vendor at the convention, I think you should have some major answers from the people that are running it.And if you are a visitor that went through this degradation, you should email <a href="mailto:peter@gencon.com">peter@gencon.com</a> (who according to their website wasn't even at this convention...)or write letters to GEN CON LLC120 Lakeside Ave  Suite #100Seattle, WA,  98122This just might of been gamings Altamont, and the end of the golden era of the roleplaying (which has been dying ever since the big companies bought out all the major brands.)Steven Sokolies</blockquote>

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