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<blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 6676239" data-attributes="member: 22260">I was just thinking about this. Gencon was of course the TSR con. It transferred to WotC, who then spun it off. Winter Fantasy, the other TSR con, for a time became D&amp;D eXPerience and was the main venue for announcements. I got to demo 4E at one, and watch the VTT keep crashing. I know that D&amp;DXP has also been deemphasized. Mearls did touch on the possible reason for the changes. They want to support stores. So its more important that organized play is in stores, and people buy from stores. (TSR use to do direct sales and sold stuff at cons, including smaller regional ones, but their where lots of RPG focused stores at that time). There is now the interweb for announcements, and Gencon seems to mostly be a board game/minis con at this point. PAX, on the other hand, brings in more people, and is in Seattle, and better aligns with their &quot;not just the tabletop&quot; strategy. I guess their ultimate goal would be to make Comic Con their main venue. They are not quite there yet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TerraDave, post: 6676239, member: 22260"] I was just thinking about this. Gencon was of course [I]the[/I] TSR con. It transferred to WotC, who then spun it off. Winter Fantasy, the other TSR con, for a time became D&D eXPerience and was the main venue for announcements. I got to demo 4E at one, and watch the VTT keep crashing. I know that D&DXP has also been deemphasized. Mearls did touch on the possible reason for the changes. They want to support stores. So its more important that organized play is in stores, and people buy from stores. (TSR use to do direct sales and sold stuff at cons, including smaller regional ones, but their where lots of RPG focused stores at that time). There is now the interweb for announcements, and Gencon seems to mostly be a board game/minis con at this point. PAX, on the other hand, brings in more people, and is in Seattle, and better aligns with their "not just the tabletop" strategy. I guess their ultimate goal would be to make Comic Con their main venue. They are not quite there yet. [/QUOTE]

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