I love reading all of these posts. I would like to thank you all for the hours of entertainment. I am sad that I will not be attending Gen con this year as it would be my 18th time attending. Gen con is supposed to be a place that accepts all. That's their own policy from years past. I am vaccinated, but find this policy unfair as it does not fit their mission that they have prided themselves on. So I am choosing not to go. As should anyone who finds it unfair. If you like the policy then by all means go and have fun. Send me pictures!!! Lol. If you don't like the policy, then stay home. Or go support a con that fits who you are. If Gen cons pockets start to wear thin, I'm sure they will welcome all once more. At the end of the day, their pocket books will determine their future.
I don’t agree with the decision as it does not appear to be based on common sense.
So masks are required in the convention center. Ok big deal as people are going to congregate in the beer garden area and the food trucks, and the outdoor parties each night where people will be in large groups not practicing social distancing.
It just doesn’t seem like a well thought out plan in my opinion.
I think people throwing a temper tantrum about the mask issue are better if staying at home to throw their temper tantrums. None of the rest of us want to see or hear it so thank you in advance.
I don’t think the mask mandate makes any sense either, but I’m still attending.
The presence or non-presence of masks didn't amount to any thing. They did not prevent me from catching covid. The Vaccine didn't stop it either cause I am vaccinated and was for both trips.
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Roderick Robertson Forum Coordinator Gen Con, LLC
Maybe it was just the luck of the draw, but i did think people were less friendly and chill last year. Dirty looks from gaming groups set up in public (aka- masking not required) areas of the hotels if you walked by going about your business without a mask or did not maintain silence around them was a downer. People treating me with a skeptical attitude because I evidently don't dress like the typical gencon goer and the nasty comments i heard about the colts fans did make me question how accepting of everyone we really are.
I mean when you just spent four days wearing a mask to keep everyone safe and hundreds of drunken idiots come walking through the convention center without masks, it is kind of hard to be polite
Maybe avoid public spaces if you find it hard to be polite to regular people.
Regular polite people see a restricted area sign and are polite about recognizing it for the others using the space they are entering. You know, like those Wear a Hard Hat signs....
These were not those people. :D
This is a subject where snark is not advisable. Even if you typed "Maybe avoid public spaces..." in fun, we don't have the normal clues as to your intention. So be careful how you answer people.
Roderick Robertson Forum Coordinator Gen Con, LLC.
Comments like equating football game attendees to drunken idiots reinforces my point exactly.
Also 2021 was the first year i have not been invited friendly-like to join a pick up game of something and the first year i never felt like there was really a good time to ask someone if they wanted to join a game. Got the vibe people wanted to stick to their own groups.
Makes you wonder how they felt when they finally saw the door signs...
There were mask required signs on the doors to the ICC. If that was meant only for GC or all entrants, I dunno.
I was staying at the Westin last year and there was also a large Gen Con sign in the lobby (in the middle of their construction last year) saying that masks were required, but the staff told me the public areas of the hotel were not subject to that for the same reason.