GenCon Report: Day Three

It appears that this GenCon is turning out to be a good one for exhibitors. There are lots of people on the exhibit hall floor, and a lot of them are buying stuff. While games like Starcraft and the limited edition of Talisman are hits, they're not the sort of hits that suck the customers away from everyone else. The electronic games presence appears to have done exactly what everyone hoped: draw in people who might not otherwise come, but not monopolize the customers. Traffic at the Grey Ghost/Heliograph/Rogue/Zygote booth was sufficiently brisk that I didn't get much opportunity to walk the floor on Saturday.

This good news has deprived the industry professionals of one of their favorite pastimes:  gathering in the Ram brewpub after hours to gripe about slow sales. Instead they've had to fall back on their second-favorite pastime, which is griping about the slow sales at previous conventions.

Comments

[Dave*]

Great!

It's always great to hear about small publishers doing well.