I've been meaning to bring this up for a while, and I figure now is as good as ever. I wanted to throw out a hypothetical question to you guys. If there were a local videogame fan convention in your town would you go to it? It wouldn't be anything like E3. It wouldn't be for the press, so no games are going to be announced or anything like that. It would be forPAC fans so it would be more along the lines of sci-fi or comic conventions, maybe like a smaller scale Penny Arcade Expo. There'd be a lot of panels regarding the history of a particular genre, a few industry people/developers would be in attendence to do Q&A's as well as maybe an author or two of some video game books. And then you'd have some of the typical convention things you always see like a dealer's room (that ultimately sells crap), costumes contests for the cosplayers, and whatever else could fall into that. Then at night you'd have some DJ's spinning and maybe a "geek band" like the Mini-Bosses playing. To top it off, you'd have a game room where you'd have some arcade games and maybe some consoles and TV's set up to let people do some playing.
So the question once again is, would you go? And if it looked interested enough, how far would you travel for it; an hour? 1 - 3 hours? More?
I went to one in London at the ExCel centre about 10-11 years ago. It took me about an hour and a half to get from North London to there using public transport. It was shit. The only thing of interest was a video room which kept showing a Twilight Princess trailer. It was very large scale and generally awful and useless.
What you propose sounds much better fun but it's kind of a mute point as I would have to get on a plane to get to anywhere from here and unless there was also good sex on offer it would be totally not worth it however good the games con was.
That wouldbe pretty awesome. Make the covention in Miami, we have loads of gamers here.
Nahhhh it could never be Miami. It has to be a city thats somewhat centrally located. Orlando and Atlanta were the two places being discussed. lots of other cities within a few hours driving distance. Plus convention space in Miami is very expensive. So in conclusion. . . MIAMI GETS NOTHING!!!!!