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Originally Posted by RageD
You really think haSbro is going to sponsor a rival convention to botcon, or a convention that heavily features third party content? Even if they did it would probably come with stipulations such as no more third party content, etc.... Which would be terrible.
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Well anime companies do it all the time. Heck when I ran mine I had sponser items from ADV, Bandai, Viz, funimation and tokyo pop. They are all rivals and with over 100 anime/gaming con that goes on year round, no one sees it as an issue.
And I don't see why Hasbro wouldn't, it takes money to make money and the more you get yourself out there the more money you'll bring in. If Hasbro gives a crap about money, which they do because giving quality products doesn't seem to interest them, more publicly and marketing for their company the better.
Doesn't botcon do third party? I might be wrong there, i've never attended. But then again I've never brought third party so....
I'd prefer guests in terms of $$ being spent, but with the fiasco I don't think they make enough yet to keep affording them without the taxed on extra fees.
It'll be interesting to see what the official numbers were for this year and how much attendence rose since 2013.
