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What keeps you from going to GenCon?

Why aren't you going to GenCon this year?

  • Costs too much: I can't afford it.

    Votes: 145 35.8%
  • Costs too much: I don't think it is worth it.

    Votes: 56 13.8%
  • My SO would never let me out of the house that long

    Votes: 29 7.2%
  • I can't get the time off of work (or too much work to do)

    Votes: 107 26.4%
  • I don't like gaming conventions

    Votes: 26 6.4%
  • It's too far for me to travel

    Votes: 172 42.5%
  • Some obligation came up that takes precedence (family reunion, some other entertainment, etc.)

    Votes: 35 8.6%
  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 35 8.6%
  • Why I am going to GenCon; I just want to see the poll results!

    Votes: 58 14.3%

  • Poll closed .
Costs too much is the plain and simple answer. Not just the price to get in but the related travel costs, hotel rooms, etc. I don't really care about the convention scene anyway.
 

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My wife scheduled a family vacation during GenCon!

I live in Wisconsin. I have lived here all of my life. In the 80's, when i went to my first GenCon, it was 50 minutes away from my house. In the 90's I moved closer..about 20 minutes from downtown Milwaukee.

I've gone to 16 GenCon's in my life. I've loved every one of them. Either I meet new people or play new games. I used to be a hardcore 24x7 GenCon gamer. Now I go to socialize, see new stuff and just geek out for a full 4 days.

This year, my wife decided to make the arrangements for a honest-to-goodness Clark W. Griswold family vacation to Branson, MO. It isn't such a bad thing because my usual expenses for GenCon ran about 250-300 when it was in WI. My Indiana trip was closer to 800.00 and I still haven't read through all the stuff I bought or put together all the mini's I purchased:).

Later,

Greg Volz
Natural Twenty Gaming
www.naturaltwenty.com
 

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