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Jun. 23rd, 2009 at 6:17 AM

Well, something's going on. The number of companies -- and game industry pros -- who are skipping this year seems to be higher than ever.

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righteousfist wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 12:06 pm (UTC)

Origins has a lot to prove. But I think reports of its demise may be premature.

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philreed wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 12:08 pm (UTC)

Is there a way to recover? It feels as if the con is in a death spiral as each year fewer and fewer people visit the show. Origins needs something big to draw crowds.

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righteousfist wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 12:16 pm (UTC)

The new GAMA ED has a lot of ideas, and he's already done some great things as far as internal efficiencies go, and there are some other really interesting ideas kicking around.

Also, this year probably looks even worse than normal simply because of the economy.

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433 wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 01:18 pm (UTC)

1) Don't be so close to GenCon
2) Don't be in the same general area as GenCon
3) Fix the Origins Awards

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armadillo_king wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 03:59 pm (UTC)

Yes, yes, yes.

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cartoonlad wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 07:26 pm (UTC)

The thought is probably: "Why should I spend all this time and money to go to a show in the rust belt when in two month's time I'll be back there again with the same people plus thousands more potential customers?"

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433 wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 07:30 pm (UTC)

Yup.

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crothian wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 12:33 pm (UTC)

I like it more now that it is a little smaller. There are still plenty of people running games; it's just easier to get around through the crowds.

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savageplanet wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 01:16 pm (UTC)

Origins used to be my favorite con, but it's just too close to GenCon and ComicCon and just isn't worth the cost. :/

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spacecrime wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 03:18 pm (UTC)

Got to figure a lot of companies are looking at tight budgets in a recession year -- and if you can only afford one big summer convention, seems to me like Gen Con is more likely to be the one.

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(Anonymous) wrote:

Jun. 23rd, 2009 04:14 pm (UTC)

Do you know the people who run it? I know my husband and I will be there this year as fans, but we're both freelancers (me WW and now SJ at least once, him WW and Catalyst.) It's his favorite con. Maybe too late for this year, but we'll help if we can next.

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November 2009