[Deptheads] Need more room for Larps

[Eric Burgess]

Honestly, I think that unless the computer room has a lot of corporate
support (meaning the con can actually generate revenue from it), there is
little reason to continue it unless there are truly marquee events that will
actually draw attendees.

If you were to go another way (as Robert and many have suggested) and there
is a firm attempt to try and make it a more social thing with Guitar Hero,
Rock Band, and Wiis - then I could see the value in it being a 'wind down'
kind of place that is a nice add-on that people will actually wander in and
try. That kind of thing isn't likely with the old setup.

And, by the way, I don't think any of this is 'bitching'. People are trying
to work out a good solution to what everyone agrees is a problem area of the
convention. A viable solution is: drop it for now and use the space for
something that we know will draw attendees. Honestly, I don't think anyone
should take offense by the comment or be taken to task for suggesting
that. "We've always had a computer room" is one of the worst reasons to keep
it.


...ERB
www.boardgamebabylon.com
On Dec 10, 2007 6:01 PM, DB <noldor at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
>
> On 12/10/07 5:43 PM, "Janice Sellers" <janicemsj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying my damnedest to bring things into the computer room, and it
> > would probably help tremendously if people would actually *help*
> > instead of just bitching about why we have any space designated for it
> > at all.
>
> I'm sorry but I don't have huge amounts of time.  I'm busy wrangling and
> programming 100 rpg events.  If I can help you, let me know.
>
> >So far there is a tentative plan to put the online
> > play-by-email game people in there, and a possibility of some
> > corporate support.
>
>  No one at the staff meeting on Sunday knew anything about the computer
> room. No one even knew who was in charge of it. There was no talk of any
> plan.
>
> >The biggest reason that we are trying to keep a
> > space designated for a comptuer room is because once it's gone, it's
> > gone.  Yes, I know some of you (whom I will not name, but it's
> > pointedly obvious who you are) would be thrilled by that, but some of
> > us, including several of the convention owners, would not.
>
> I would love to see a thriving computer space.  I've not seen that for
> years
> at Strategicon.
>
> >I try to
> > support other departments as much as possible; is it too much to ask
> > that other departments support what I am doing?
>
> Tell us what we can do.  Honest.  I just have no idea where and how to get
> equipment in there or how to advertise this to folks.
>
> > And yes, that's quite a bit of a rant, and I really don't give a damn.
> >  Live with it.
>
> Rants are okay on e-mail.  Face to face would be another matter.
>
> Here's my three cents regarding a plan:
>
> We need to FOCUS on an event just like we do the rest of the con.  Patrick
> doesn't just have a bunch of games that he has on a shelf and hopes people
> play them.  I don't have a box of rpgs and wait for people to show up and
> play something.  PROGRAM the computer room.  Specifically say stuff like:
> Starcraft tournament starting at 3pm.  12 person Halo II starting at noon.
> Etc.  But we need to PROGRAM the events.  Let's just focus on a few core
> events and not worry about the "open computer gaming" environment.  It's
> the
> wrong approach and impossible to sell to folks because there's no one
> interested in maybe-gaming.  We need to give people something definitive
> to
> sign-up for.
>
>  - Den
>
>
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