Aug 22, 2009 13:05
Our first Gencon was in 2008. Dajuan and I pretty much lived in the SW minis area. We made lots of friends, met tons of people from the boards, and had loads of fun. The time between Gencon 08 and GC 09 was turbulent, to say the least. WotC focused the game to be more competitive, issuing game-breaking commander effects on cheap (squad-building wise) pieces. As the competitiveness escalated, the fun aspects of the game declined drastically. The "win at all costs" jerks became more prominent than they were before, and they made the game not fun at all. Well, at GC 09, Dajuan and I didn't even go to the minis area on Thursday, the first day. We were missed, as some of the good crowd sought us out. We made a few scant appearances there Friday and Saturday, mostly just to say hi to the people we wanted to see. We didn't play 1 single game there this year.
And now, the biggest jerk player in swm has written a large "Here's how we need to change the game to fit my style and make me happy" thread, and I just can't find the desire to call him on being a jerk. SWM is becoming too competitive, and we just don't want to have any part of it. So we'll continue to play our fun games in Des Moines. We'll do some fun stuff in Omaha later next month, but for the most part, we're done with competitive minis. The squads just are all the same and boring as hell to play and play against.
Don't get me wrong, at this year's GC we had such a blast hanging out with the CJ crew. It was more fun than we've had at a con in a long time, and past cons have been fun.
I guess I'm just sad about closing another chapter of my life, but to be balanced, I am happy about opening up the new one, too.