Gets the cake.
I just wanted to say that this was by far my most positive GDQ experience overall. The location was great, the event spaces were MASSIVE, and the hotel was otherwise really nice. The moments that I caught of the stream were good (amazing layout, imo. This just keeps getting better every event) and when I was on couch it felt like oldschool GDQ fun.
Only negative I'd say is the breakfast, but it's only really a negative to me because it was so small I didn't even bother trying to eat it. I just went to panera or the shop in the lobby every day (and real talk the girl at Panera bread was so cute I was totally okay with this :P)
Biggest positive for me is still the arcade. I'm still always willing to pay more registration for this to be a big focus of the event, because for a lot of us there aren't arcades with most of those games anywhere nearby.
Also wanted to echo the stuff about board games. I don't think having a sponsor for board games is a necessary use of funds, because a LOT of people bring board games and people are typically respectful of the games they grab and play. Maybe having a small banner above the table where all the games are laid out reminding people to be respectful of property that's not there can mitigate anything bad that could happen. Also, not sure this is necessarily something we can request, but having more of the round tables is better for a vast majority of board games so it would be nice to see more of those at AGDQ.
My only other minor complaint is about announcements leading up to the event. Can we get a news feed with reminders somewhere on the GDQ website, or something similar? I now know to keep an eye on the GDQ twitter and/or my GDQ account page, but I still feel like everything needs to be in a single location and imo a news feed with archives is the optimal solution.
Only negative I'd say is the breakfast, but it's only really a negative to me because it was so small I didn't even bother trying to eat it. I just went to panera or the shop in the lobby every day (and real talk the girl at Panera bread was so cute I was totally okay with this :P)
Biggest positive for me is still the arcade. I'm still always willing to pay more registration for this to be a big focus of the event, because for a lot of us there aren't arcades with most of those games anywhere nearby.
Also wanted to echo the stuff about board games. I don't think having a sponsor for board games is a necessary use of funds, because a LOT of people bring board games and people are typically respectful of the games they grab and play. Maybe having a small banner above the table where all the games are laid out reminding people to be respectful of property that's not there can mitigate anything bad that could happen. Also, not sure this is necessarily something we can request, but having more of the round tables is better for a vast majority of board games so it would be nice to see more of those at AGDQ.
My only other minor complaint is about announcements leading up to the event. Can we get a news feed with reminders somewhere on the GDQ website, or something similar? I now know to keep an eye on the GDQ twitter and/or my GDQ account page, but I still feel like everything needs to be in a single location and imo a news feed with archives is the optimal solution.