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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6677486" data-attributes="member: 5143"><p>I'm in between on this one. I've never seen one of their seminars have limited attendance. But then again I never went to panels other than their announcement panels which were always packed with a line of people who wanted to get in. I didn't go to things like the "Future of the Forgotten Realms" panels that I figured would be boring. They might be talking about those ones.</p><p></p><p>However, I know that GenCon has always been a celebration of D&D. It's been a place people run to buy the new D&D books. It's been a place to meet with the designers and find out what was coming next. It was also a place where you got to play D&D and meet new friends who play the game you loved.</p><p></p><p>I think I agree that WOTC isn't getting anything out of GenCon anymore but that's only because they honestly don't seem to care about the game anymore. Whether people play it or not is not really important to them. They now have a very hands off attitude toward the game. They assume people will play in their own homes and in their local gaming stores and that's good enough. If people want to play D&D at conventions...well, they'll do that as well but they don't need WOTC to organize it or be involved.</p><p></p><p>All of their recent attitudes have said "We want to release this game into the wild and let it be whatever it will be." They've said they aren't in competition with Pathfinder. Which is true, because they don't care if their game succeeds or not. The main goal appears to be promoting the IDEA of D&D rather than the game itself. They do that better through video games, movies, celebrity D&D games, and press releases than they do by actually printing books or encouraging organized play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 6677486, member: 5143"] I'm in between on this one. I've never seen one of their seminars have limited attendance. But then again I never went to panels other than their announcement panels which were always packed with a line of people who wanted to get in. I didn't go to things like the "Future of the Forgotten Realms" panels that I figured would be boring. They might be talking about those ones. However, I know that GenCon has always been a celebration of D&D. It's been a place people run to buy the new D&D books. It's been a place to meet with the designers and find out what was coming next. It was also a place where you got to play D&D and meet new friends who play the game you loved. I think I agree that WOTC isn't getting anything out of GenCon anymore but that's only because they honestly don't seem to care about the game anymore. Whether people play it or not is not really important to them. They now have a very hands off attitude toward the game. They assume people will play in their own homes and in their local gaming stores and that's good enough. If people want to play D&D at conventions...well, they'll do that as well but they don't need WOTC to organize it or be involved. All of their recent attitudes have said "We want to release this game into the wild and let it be whatever it will be." They've said they aren't in competition with Pathfinder. Which is true, because they don't care if their game succeeds or not. The main goal appears to be promoting the IDEA of D&D rather than the game itself. They do that better through video games, movies, celebrity D&D games, and press releases than they do by actually printing books or encouraging organized play. [/QUOTE]
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