Hi folks,
Does anyone know if GenCon UK are selling Day tickets this year? If they are how much are they?
There website seems to be utterly useless and there's absolutely no way I'm paying the money they want for the full convention PLUS accomodation fees. Despite my extremely negative expectations surrounding this years event I'm thinking of popping down for a day to check it out and see if they can prove me wrong for 2006 or beyond.
Does anyone know if GenCon UK are selling Day tickets this year? If they are how much are they?
There website seems to be utterly useless and there's absolutely no way I'm paying the money they want for the full convention PLUS accomodation fees. Despite my extremely negative expectations surrounding this years event I'm thinking of popping down for a day to check it out and see if they can prove me wrong for 2006 or beyond.
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angusabranson- Angus Abranson
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We have some volunteer GM's who can come down for maybe one or two days but so far we have no mechanism for getting them in.
GC last year involved paying to get into Butlins then paying to enter GC as far as I remember.
Are you going?
Bloody steep for a days visit (but then the whole thing is bloody expensive).
I'd really like to come down for a day to catch up with people and also see what the convention actually is like atm. I hear the horror stories and I guess I'm a sucker for wanting to know if it's just hyperboil or how bad it actually is!
Just don't know about the GC day passes (or how much either pass is!).
I'd like to attend (for a day) just so I can see first hand what the organisation is actually like and also to catch up with a few people.
If you come on Sarturday you'll be able to play three Millennium Moon LARPS back to back for you money though!
If I come down it won't be for gaming. I'd like to meet up with a number of people and scout the organisation out to see just how they are running things.
1 - Day Badge - £25 (4 Generic Tickets, inclusive of Butlins Entry)
More details at http://www.consupport.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=427&whichpage=4
Me, I'm going to Conception in February. Bognor Regis is about half an hours drive from me, but £25 just to catch up with some friends and browse the trade stands, no way Jose!
Unfortunately this may be the last Gen Con UK :(
- Neil.
I would hope that Peter does indeed withdraw the license and then that would allow a more competent group to put in an offer to run the show in future years.
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There's always Dragonmeet in December.
And to the best of my knowledge, the organisers have their houses and businesses on the line... no sugar daddy in the US!
And yes, I will be at GenCon working my socks off so I won't pay either accommodation or entry and I'll play a freeform every evening.
Not only have they annoyed a sizable amount of the attendees but they've also put off many of the traders that would normally turn up. Plus they've outright lied to the charity organiser claiming the Trade Hall was full and they couldn't fit him in after saying that he had to pay for the stand, etc, like any other trader (that would have put him into a loss so the charity would not get anything and he'd have to fork out his own money to cover the difference).
The organisation, as far as I can tell, has been a shambles. Apart from anything else we've not been approached since around April time to see if we're interested in attending as a business (or if they can make a deal with us) which considering we're one of the top stores in the country and attended every single GenCon in the UK apart from the 2004 one is quite surprising.
If the guys behind it loose everything that is there own faults after last year and what looks like this year. They should have listened to their punters (both attendees and exhibitors), priced the convention in a budget people could afford and looked for a location which was more accessible. Plus they should have advertisied and spread the word more!
I hope they don't loose everything but I do kind of hope the license is revoked so another team can try and make the show into what it used to be.
As it is, am going to try and make it up to the regular SteveCon this weekend, if not to play at least just to catch up with what's what in gaming.
- Neil.
The format of the GenCon alternative isn't clear yet as it's usually only one day and considering the response on rpg.net, they might need a different venue...
And the Irish con's felt guilty asking for 25 euro*... (Most are 20/21 or so iirc)
£17 for you backward British types ;)