[Deptheads]space and exposure

[Tim]

Victor B wrote:
>  
> People do not go to gaming conventions specifically to play computer 
> games or watch movies/anime unless a game company is running the room 
> with their game (blizzard running world of warcraft all weekend with 
> prizes etc.) or a computer game has an awesome prize (have a halo 3 or 
> guitar hero tournament with a $1000 dollar prize and it is worth it 
> for someone to drive out, pay for parking and/or hotel, have their mom 
> drop them off and pick them up, and buy a 1 day badge). And we would 
> still lose money since the under 13 crowd would all get in for free. 
> That being said the computer room will have con goers that will see 
> tourneys they will want to play and they will sign up and find the 
> computer room to participate. In the past year when the computer room 
> was across from dealer's room how many people walked into the computer 
> room at random and started playing games (they were not looking for 
> the computer room and just saw it and decided to stop in and sit down 
> and play a game). People will find the computer room.
> People will find the movie room. People will not look for open board 
> games unless they are near or in boardgames.
> Rpgs exist on seperate floors because the games are in seperate rooms. 
> There is no traffic in the hotel rooms with rpg games therefore it 
> does not matter that these events are
> on a seperate floor. Privacy for each game = find your game, sit back 
> and enjoy the roleplay session uninterrupted and without outside noise 
> and interference.

One can make that argument for boardgames as well...people will find 
their game...it doesn't matter where it is.  The computer room, video 
room and open gaming rely on walk in traffic more then the rest...

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