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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7707565" data-attributes="member: 19857">Meh.  GenCon is huge and expensive to go to.  Last year Wizards decided to go to a number of smaller cons instead of putting all of their eggs in the Gen*Con basket and it seems like it worked for them.  (I don't claim to know the backstory behind this but as a business decision the idea to go to a lot of conventions around the country instead of one convention in the middle of the country seems sound).Frankly to me their attendance at GaryCon probably more than makes up for not going to GenCon from an "RPG History" perspective.  GaryCon is a very appropriate place to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Lake Geneva Wargames Convention.  After all, it is the one actually being held in Lake Geneva this year.Let's remember that the RPG group in Wizards is basically as small as a tiny company as far as staff size goes.  And as far as the money they bring in from RPGs (not incidental licensing, but the games themselves) they're probably doing allright but not in the moneymaking area they were in, say, 2001.  It makes some sense that their budget for travel to cons would be limited and that there would be a higher perceived benefit in going to a lot of smaller cons instead of one giant one.</blockquote>