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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 5139019" data-attributes="member: 2174">I can't speak for the other companies (not) involved, but I'm willing to bet that their reasoning is similar to ours.1) The awards have historically been brazenly political, mired by corruption, and result in no noticeable lift in sales. 2) Attendance and sales at the Origins convention have been decreasing annually for years, especially for RPG companies. I hear that folks like Mayfair make a killing selling board games there, but we just kept getting killed over and over and over again.3) A couple of years ago, GAMA held the Origins Awards in the hallway outside the exhibit hall. Awards were handed out by fat stormtroopers and someone's poor bellydancer-dressed daughter. It was absolutely pitiful, and utterly destroyed my faith in the awards.These days Origins is more of a regional convention than the national show it once was. Instead of attending, we're taking the (considerable) money it took to get our booth and staff there and funneling it into our own local convention, Paizo Con, which looks like it will double in size this year from its launch in 2009.I have an Origins Award, and I'm really glad to have received it. I really do hope that things improve and the show regains its position as a must-attend event for publishers. But the fact is the show doesn't have the value it used to have for RPG publishers, so fewer and fewer publishers are making it a part of their overall efforts. I hope that this year and the ones that follow convince me that the show is worth attending and that the awards are worth supporting again, but it's going to be an uphill battle to convince me that that is the case.--Erik</blockquote>

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