tmh (06/25/82)
According to what I've heard the people who are pissed off at TSR and will be boycotting Gencon are not the dealers so much as the manufacturers. This is due to the problems caused by TSR buying out SPI and the date chosen by TSR for holding Gencon East. The countries game design companies are all members in a guild type organization and each has one vote for the location of Origins. When TSR bought SPI it thought it should have two votes not one. Needless to say the other companies disagreed and bad blood had resulted. The other problem and I am not sure if they are related is the Gencon East is close to Origins like one weekend or two before and same general location. Since Origins is the big con for the guild they are naturally peeved about the way TSR is acting. Personally I don't blame them since as you can see from SPI's folding that their's is a marginal business and the one thing the industry doesn't need is this kind of crap which is likely to drag all the companies down. Most of this information came from the last time I went down to see GDW and talked to Rich Banner who is currently guild president. Tom Harris Bell Labs Indian Hill
acu@stat-l (Shoe) (08/10/84)
Is there any interest among Usenet types going to GENCON (next week!) to meet (once we're there)??? Please reply only BY MAIL (I'll summarize to the net, etc.) -- Thanks. -- Mark Shoemaker /dev/shoe ...!pur-ee!pucc-k:acu mas@purdue Level Doesn't Count When You're Dead....