(Some of) What I Saw at GAMA Expo 2024

[@sope07]

10:15 I came here from a Viet board game facebook group. Thanks for the shoutout, people are celebrating over there!

[@boardgamegeek]

You're welcome! I'm happy to learn more about what folks are releasing there. -WEM

[@derkcast620]

Thank you so much for talking about our company and our games in your video, its really appreciated!

[@boardgamegeek]

You're welcome...but which games are yours? -WEM

[@galepdx4340]

Fascinating Information do more of this periodically please

[@AwkwardGMCorbin]

Did you encounter Onyx Path Publishing’s Curseborne? They’ve been hinting promo material was given out at GAMA. But no one’s said what the promo material is.

[@boardgamegeek]

I didn't see anything from Onyx Path, but looking up info on the company, I see that it mostly does RPGs, and I don't cover those types of games at all. Sorry! -WEM

[@smchalk3535]

I guess I’m part of the one percent who finds this behind the scene information

[@edwindrood2816]

Interesting

[@rayshell7168]

Do you think all of the new CCGs coming out and the newer ones that have survived made any impact on the industry this year?

[@boardgamegeek]

I am not a specialist in CCGs, so I probably don't have the right perspective to make such judgments. Sorry! -WEM

[@midwesternexplorer9339]

%99 of your watchers probably do not care about something that they cannot attend.

[@boardgamegeek]

So far the video has 1,685 views against a subscriber count of 154,334, which means that (at best) 1.09% of subscribers have watched this video, which means you're mostly right - but that's okay. I'm happy to talk about trends in the history, and if folks aren't interested, lots of other videos are out there. -WEM

[@olanmills64]

this is a very odd statement. I don't know about the level of interest in this particular event, but if anything, not being able to attend would make it more interesting to most people, absent of any other considerations. I used to attend E3 (as well as many of its ancillary events) as a semi-professional media member. It's precisely because they weren't able to attend that so many people were interested in both the coverage I produced for a website as well as with casual in person conversations where people would be earnestly asking questions about what it was like. Of course people were interested in the actual focus, the new games and hardware being revealed, business announcements, etc, but there was also a great amount of interest in the actual experience of attending, what was it like to meet different people, go to different events and parties, what were the booths like, etc etc. You are probably right that the average consumer doesn't care about the content in this video, but I bet a decent amount of the super nerds that frequent a site like BGG probably are interested in learning stuff like this

[@BoardGameCo]

Looking at the last few weeks of videos on the channel, looks like this one is performing right in the middle...many doing worse, many doing better. I'd argue that the interest is just fine.

[@boardgamegeek]

View count now 3,868, so it's time to amend that statement to 97.5% of viewers...at best. -WEM