Quote from: Reckall on October 30, 2020, 11:21:17 AM
Interestingly enough, I just found the following entry in 1992 "Little Macs" - the prize annually given by Richard Berg to "the most egregious blunders, the most inane remarks, and the biggest wastes of time and energy in the industry."

TWO SEASONS TICKETS IN THE BOB UECKER SECTION AT MILWAUKEE COUNTY STADIUM: To the perpetrators of GenCon '92 - TSR - for shuttling every non-TSR activity into corners of The Mecca that not even bloodhounds could locate, for trying to pre-buy and tie up most of the hotel rooms in the area, and for claiming most of the convention floor was sold out when it wasn't. Condescension, Abrasiveness, Supercili-osity (?) and a general Lack of Intelligence are NOT the four cornerstones of Public Relations, folks ... although they do appear to be so for TSR corporate policy.

This. TSR was off my Radar after about 1980 or so.

The 90s was a crazy time for Gen-Con with TSR there, not there, other companies doing the same. At times it seemed like a competition between TSR, Games Workshop and White Wolf for who would snub the con this or that year. Weird stuff. Partly Id guess because of the background legal battles between companies too.

I know there was some serious bad blood between R Talsorian and TSR/WOTC for a long time over how Talsorian got screwed over in the Netrunner CCG. GDW didnt have much good to say about TSR for a while, and other publishers. And the next year it would be someone else drawing ire.