Grand Moff Boris wrote:
I was not told where initially, but Lobostele can back me up on this one, my deductive skills allowed me to ferret out the information without help from anyone. Now I've just been waiting for confirmation.
Yup, was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of Shinja's thread. Excellent work, detective.
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I don't care about who judges what; my only gripe is that it was a super-secret move that will only hurt the concept of the event. 90 people turned out for it last year because it was highly publicized. At this point, who can afford to make the trip?
And that was exactly my point. If you're someone who gets paid overtime at work, you have to have at least a couple weeks to work a bunch of extra hours (if there's enough to do at work to justify that) . Then you have the time it takes for those extra hours to make it through the pay-roll system and you actually get paid for it. For me, it's usually at least 2 weeks before I see the cash from the overtime hours I work. And for a trip to Seattle including food, airfare, hotel, and convention fees, I'd probably have to work at least an extra 20-30 hours to cover that. For anybody who doesn't get paid any overtime, they have to alter their spending habits DRASTICALLY in order to save probably an extra $400 to attend this thing.
So, it's a GREAT thing to anyone who is local to Seattle, or was planning to go to PAX anyways. At this point, anyone who lives further than an easy driving distance away (which is, as I said before, a LARGE majority of the online community here) it is basically impossible to attend this event unless you have some extra cash already burning a hole in your pocket from something.
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Is it a conspiracy to be sneaky? Nope, it's a conspiracy of incompetence and mismanagement. It's like they either don't want anyone to come, or don't care. Either way the result is the same.
This is what worries me the most. Last year, WOTC completely removes Rob from contact with any of us, and offers no explanation, and even when several of us inquire as to his whereabouts at the Seminar at GenCon, we get no response at all. Around the same time, Dreamblade, this supposedly great new product that is going to be WOTC's new "big thing" basicaly tanks and they discontinue the game after pouring a TON of money into it. Then, they make a spectacular move with developing the Gleemax idea, and after barely a year, it falls apart as well. Now, to top it all off, they decide to thumb their nose at a large majority of the competitive SWM community with this business regarding the Championship.
Just really makes me question what the heck goes on in their management over there. On the other hand, I work for General Electric, supposedly one of Fortune 500's top companies to work for, and I see plenty of management problems so I guess I shouldn't expect so much out of other companies.