Squirecam, I am not trying to be rude, but how would you want it to be "addressed"? Gen Con has tried to make the hotel room situation downtown better for everyone by instituting the room lottery. They have addressed the outlying hotel shuttle issue by discontinuing it altogether. (I don't know the reason as I am not involved in these types of discussions.)

What other "serious problems" are there that you feel are being swept under the rug?

Personally, I think Gen Con is doing a very good job with their resources and in the handling of the convention and everything that happens overall. Will they be able to please everybody? ABSOLUTELY NOT. But if 90% are satisfied, would it be a better use of your resources and time to focus on keeping the 90% happy or turn instead to capturing the other 10% by adjusting something that may negatively affect the others? Are there going to be problems with a convention this large? Yes. Can they be fixed? Some may not be able to be fixed. (For example, I don't believe there is a better way to handle the hotel room situation as there simply are simply not enough hotel rooms downtown to handle the attendance.) As for a change in venue... I would like to see it closer only because I drive and hate that it takes 10+ hours.... but that is more selfish than anything else. It is all part and parcel with attending. I know that if I want to attend Gen Con I need to accept that there will be crowds and wall to wall people. I accept that there will be a lot of noise. I accept that I more than likely will stay away from downtown and have to drive in every day. I accept that I will have to pay for parking. I accept that there will be ticket prices. I accept that there may be games I want to play but fill up every year before I can purchase an event ticket. No matter what, I find that I have fun, which is why I go. If it were not fun, I would just stay home.

The same power can be used here. There is a clear lack of public infrastructure in transport that ANY city wanting to be a convention mecca has. Starting with easy public transport to the convention center in the form of light rail, shuttles, etc. You dont need more downtown hotel rooms if you had this.

But second, Gen con did not "address" the shuttle issue. They specifically did NOT address it by having the attendees fend for themselves. What other major convention location, knowing of a problem with attendees getting to the venue, simply shrugs and gives up? NONE

And if Indy cant or wont fix the problem, there are cities that have it already that should be considered for the future.

TLDR - Gen con could use public pressure on govt to deal with infrastructure while also negotiating for a shuttle service rather than ignoring the problem.

If you never try then you will never know.

I think you are assuming that other conventions held in Indianapolis draw as many people as Gen Con does. Only a few events in Indianapolis over the next couple of years are large enough to require outlying hotel use. And many of those are only one-shot events that will probably not return year-after-year. So if a city implements a public transport system it should only do so if there is year round support for it. Right now, that is not the case for Indianapolis. I think the only event expected to draw  a higher attendance than Gen Con next year is the Big Ten Football championship in December. The remaining conventions could be housed nearly entirely by the current downtown hotels. So you are asking Indianapolis to implement a public transportation system that would only be used for 8 days out of the year provided that the Big Ten Championship AND Gen Con stay in the city. Currently, Indianapolis does not have a need for a public transportation system. 

I think that Indy citizens do need mass public transport though, as evidenced above.

If you want to be a major convention city, you need to have the infrastructure. If you cant or wont build it, fine, but dont expect people to be happy when your convention center loses business because of the lack of public transport.

Either Indy wants to keep hosting Gen con or they dont. But if they do then they need to take steps to solve the attendee problems.
 

Squirecam, I am not really sure that Gen Con has the "attendee problems" at a large scale at all. Again, you cannot make everybody happy and the complaints are only coming from a relatively small number of the 60k attendees. If a larger percentage of Gen Con goers were to start voicing displeasure and lodging complaints then I would agree that it should consider relocating. However, the number of complaints probably amount to less than 1 percent, which unfortunately is not enough to make an impact. Last years thread about this only saw about 20 to 50 different users posting which is considerably less than 1% of attendees.

Maybe more don't post because they already think what I fear, that Gen con ignored the problem last year, got away with it, and thus will keep doing so.

Secondly, how do you know Gen Con ignored the shuttle? I am not in on their meetings and I am going to guess that you are also not part of these meetings. Perhaps the CITY did something that made it unfeasible to run shuttles? Perhaps the shuttle companies themselves changed something? Perhaps Uber and Lyft made a significant dent in operations of the shuttle that it was just not affordable. Perhaps the shuttle drivers were part of a union where the union decided not to run. What I am saying is, it may not be entirely Gen Con that made the decision not to run the shuttles. And if Gen Con was able to run fine without the shuttles, what would the incentive be to bring them back? You would have additional labor involved in order to work out a shuttle schedule for relatively half of your attendees to use, running what hours? All night? Peak times? Trade hall hours? Any way you run them, you are going to have some people dissatisfied as no matter what, the shuttle service schedule will not match up with all attendees event schedules which will cause people to be late/miss events which may cause even greater problems. 

Until I get facts about why the shuttles were not run last year, I just accepted that there would be none and planned my trip accordingly. Nothing I can do about the past. Last year, I reserved a parking spot through Parking Panda and will probably do the same this year if I stay in the same place/do the same thing I did last time (less than a 10 min drive in, and parking a block from the convention center). 

I like Indy.  I see no need to move.
Vegas is not pedestrian friendly.
Chicago is a nightmare for conventions from all I have read, and sounds like attendees are confined to the convention center.
Orlando seems as though there are no where near the close hotels.
Gen Con may have reached is natural max, we will see what happens in 2017. Big 50 = maybe busier, later start = maybe fewer attendees bc of school...

There are plenty of hotels in driving distance and plenty of parking spaces. The majority of GenCon attendees just need to drive now. They would have to do the same or use public transit which takes even longer at any other convention city other than Vegas. GenCon's real concern is running out of event space. They already started using part of Lucas oil. Another 10-20% growth and they are out of space.