ADVENTURE Con - USA

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 07/04/2007 22:34:00

http://forums.adventuregamers.com/showpost.php?p=403503&postcount=23

A lower, much more reasonable price. Will this make anyone go?

LimpingFish · Sun 08/04/2007 00:48:05

No.

The fact that prices have been dropped so drastically (It all had to do with food, apparently. Go figure.) will most likely have the opposite effect. Now they just look badly organized and desperate.

An awfully cynical way to look at the situation, sure, but had all of these "barriers" been sorted before announcing the event things might be different.

I assume people who paid the old price will be refunded? Since they aren't getting a buffet now...

Candle · Sat 14/04/2007 17:27:15

http://www.adventuregamers.com/newsitem.php?id=1431

Pumaman · Sat 14/04/2007 19:48:34

I think we can learn lessons from AdventureCon -- so with that in mind, I can now announce that Mittens has been moved to 12-19 September and will be held in Beunos Aires; additionally, Brittens will now be taking place the week of 29 April - 5 May, will be held in Barcelona, and to attend you will need to have a ticket which you can now get for the low low price of $199.

Andail · Sat 14/04/2007 20:18:20

And instead of our main attraction, CJ himself, we've engaged Santiagarro.

LimpingFish · Sat 14/04/2007 20:47:07

"We can also say with 100% certainty there will be no hotel sales made from the AdventureCon site and no packages of any kind will be offered. AdventureCon will simply sell AdventureCon show tickets. We will negotiate a special discounted rate for all attendees staying at the hotel but that's where our involvement with your travel plans ends. Howard really wasn't thrilled with the idea of Malinche staff tracking hotel reservations for potentially hundreds of people anyway. Malinche is a text adventure game company, not a travel agency."

Malinche is a joke. And Howard loved the idea of selling hotel packages enough to do it the first time around, and also gave his recommendation for potential attendees to take full advantage of the Mirage hotel's facilities.

I wouldn't trust Howard Sherman as far as I could punt him, and JustAdventure isn't doing itself any favours by being associated with this fiasco.

m0ds · Sat 14/04/2007 20:50:54

You're right! Guess they've never been to Mittens. Tents would suffice.

deadsuperhero · Sun 15/04/2007 03:46:47

I need to someday go to Mittens. It's one of those "things to do before I die" things.

Dave Gilbert · Sun 15/04/2007 06:13:15

Sigh.

I had hopes for this. I really did. Despite my feelings about Howard and Malinche, despite the whole thing looking like a train wreck waiting to happen, despite my intentions to not go, I was hoping to be proved wrong because the adventure community could use something like this.

I feel like the prophet of doom who is disappointed when the end of the world actually comes.

Vince Twelve · Sun 15/04/2007 06:29:38

Someone with some actual business sense should try this again. Even if it was really small, it could be fun. Just don't charge an arm and a leg to attend and focus on the fun rather than name dropping yourself as many times as possible. Also, pay a small amount of money for a webdesigner so the con doesn't feel like a "con", sheesh. Oh, and get a better name. I suggest "ConQuest!"

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sun 15/04/2007 08:13:51

or ConJest...and it could even be made into the acronym CJ!

LimpingFish · Sun 15/04/2007 20:28:16

1. Hire some space for a weekend. Most hotels, not just expensive vegas-based ones, have conference facilities available. Christ, there's a hotel five minutes walk from my house that hosts a Sci-Fi convention every year.

2. Inquire about getting a couple of industry names to attend. As long as you're paying, and as long as they have the time, you'd be surprised at how relatively easy this could prove to be. (That's relatively easy.)

3. Sell tickets.

How hard can it be?

The funniest thing about AdventureCon was the Howard-penned guide to Vegas that he was flogging. If that doesn't smack of seedy money-making schemeage, I don't know what does.

I await the unveiling of AdventureCon Mk.II with interest...

Dave Gilbert · Tue 17/04/2007 10:33:42

Atlantic City is within driving distance of NYC (well, a few hours anyway), so I might go just for kicks. I admit my curiosity is piqued. It's like a train wreck that I won't be able to turn away from.

Dave Gilbert · Mon 30/04/2007 12:41:12

Quote
We Reached Out to 50 Adventure Game Companies.

45 did not respond.

Of the 5 remaining - three responded positively and two negatively.

The dates were wrong. The prices were wrong. The location was wrong.

We'll get it right in 2008.

A steering committee is in formation & planning for AdventureCon 2008 is under way.

Perhaps this will happen around the time FoY and Run Hot is released.

deadsuperhero · Tue 01/05/2007 04:16:46

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Pumaman · Tue 01/05/2007 18:39:51

I'm so surprised, and disappointed.

ADVENTURE Con - USA

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