Anyone going? What events are you doing? Anyone need a place to sleep? My girlfriend and I have a dual queen room, but so far it’s just us.
Watching conventions live at home. I was lucky enough that today and tomorrow are my two days off. Last year somehow worked out too. Though I only have a Wii & DS, (and a capable computer), I love keeping up with the gaming business as a whole, perhaps because it’s still ‘young’ compared to TV and movies. I get embarrassingly excited come E3.
So you are much more into the video gaming side of conventions. I’ve never done any of that at conventions, mainly because I don’t play video games enough to feel that I would have much fun at the LAN parties at cons.
I mainly stick to RPGs (a mix of tabletop and LARP) at these things with an occasional board game demo.
I’ll be at Origins.
If they ever clear up my stuck event shopping cart.
I wasn’t happy with the registration experience this year.
Yeah, the registration was an exercise in frustration. First it didn’t work. Then the server would time out, but it would charge your credit card without clearing your cart, therefore you had to purchase your tickets again in order to be fully registered, yet you now got charged twice and had to ask for a refund.
I had that happen two times to me.
They wanted to streamline the registration process with new software, but they must have hired the most incompetent database programmers to do so. Last years registration while not as streamlined at least worked fine. I’d rather have ugly and functional than pretty and frustrating.
BTW, do you have a hotel room booked already?
Hotel and Badge are set, yeah.
And yeah, the GAMA folks aren’t happy with their shopping cart software providers…
Not this year for me which will be the first time in five years that I’m skipping out. I’m taking a pretty hefty trip later in the summer and I’m expecting a much more toned down show thanks to the current economy.
Has there ever been a major con without some kind of big registration snafu? Sure usually it’s day one chaos but there are other problems.
Heading out tomorrow, woo!