Had fun Thursday through Saturday, but sadly this may be my last Origins for a couple of years, due to the timing of the event moving from late June to late May and early June for at least two years. I'll have to see as it gets closer, but the event was already missing some of it's buzz, and many big game companies were simply not there, such as Days of Wonder, FFG, GMT, and Queen Games to name a few.
Also seems as if more companies are pushing back their release dates to more closely coincide with Gencon in August. ZMAN had only fifty copies of Ares Project that they flew in just for Origins. Airlines Europe was there from Rio, but very few copies of Lancaster ( since no Queen games booth), no Troyes (ZMAN), no Mondo, few 7 Wonders Leaders ( officially releases in July) and nothing from FFG unless you got it from a general dealer, and not FFG themselves.
Always like the gaming crowd we see there, and besides myself (Randy, Mike Orlando and Jim Viel were with me as well), I saw Gary, Lori, Jordan, Roy, Dan, Joe Z, and lordjunyon, from GASP to name a few, and it's always nice to play games with those folks. Got to try Strasbourg with Stephen Conway from The Spiel, as well as seeing and talking to Sam Healy and Tom Vasel from The Dice Tower..
