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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kabouter Games" data-source="post: 7707572" data-attributes="member: 6788812">While that's true in terms of budgeting and hard numbers, there are intangibles surrounding attendance at events which cannot be easily quantified. My wife and I have a small business which used to do events. We never made any money at them. Ever. We spent a TON on inventory, getting to and from, and staying at, and at best broke even. And we caught a lot of flak from people on the Left Coast because we didn't go farther west than Chicago.The good will from attending these events was phenomenal. The chance to connect with people was invaluable. There is a certain amount of celebrity involved with  this sort of thing, and cult of personality equals sales. So it's perfectly understandable why the D&D team are diversifying their event attendance. What I don't understand is why they'd not do the biggest gaming con on the planet. As noted, I recognize more than most the financial reasons not to do an event like Gen*Con. But the negative feedback - the intangible - is going to bite them in the ass. I'm with others in this thread who have posted their head-scratching at the decision. WizKids bought TSR, which started the whole godd*mn thing. If it wasn't for D&D, Gen*Con wouldn't exist. Makes me wonder if there's something else at play about which we know nothing. 'Cause I'd be working that angle with the con committee - "Your con is massively expensive to attend. We're still the world's most popular roleplaying game, after establishing the industry which made your con possible in the first place. If you give us X, Y, and Z, we'll attend." Maybe the con said "No."I mean, it's not like Gen*Con is dependent on D&D to exist. It's waaaaaay beyond that now. But it's stupid to pretend that D&D has no impact on attendance. Of course, the brand is pretty heavily aligned with PAX now, isn't it?  Hm. That must be deliberate. Hmmmmmm. Wheels within wheels. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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