Reply To: [unofficial weekender] dread! late again!

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ah … I thought something was off yesterday when the official Weekender post happened before the Weekender forum thread.

Then again … after that FFG stream I can understand.
That’s the sort of thing you expect from amateurs who don’t need to promote a product.

1) With GenCon Online 2020 being a thing: have you watched any of it and was there any exciting news for you?
I didn’t even realise they were doing an on-line thing and when I found the stream it said something about needing tickets.
Confusing at best …

2) Will you be attending other online conventions later this year? If yes, which one?
The virtual OTT Hobby weekends were fun, but I can’t see myself wanting to join any virtualized conventions.
Part of the appeal of GenCon was seeing the terrain and demo games.
The lack of physical presence means these will be glorified advertisements, because they will lack that certain something you can only get when real people interact with designers/developers.

3) What would be the ideal stream for you?
Short, to the point … and with presenters who are having fun doing their assigned job.
The GW livestreams when they announced/revealed stuff were great.

They didn’t talk needlessly about boring details that were not part of the thing they were introducing.
I think they were more or less the same as they would have done live at a convention …

I don’t know how FFG prepared for that stream, because it looked like something they sort of forgot about until it was time to begin.

Hobby wise … I’ve got a kickstarter incoming. Battlesystems Fantasy if I read the signs correctly.
Because although the tracking mail said stuff was heading my way it didn’t mention what it was, so I had to guess based on magic numbers.