Glad I was able to help and throw money at you then XD

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glad to meet you, Finally.

This was the first time the Artist Alley had people actually IN it since 2014. No kidding, last year, we had 2 artists in the alley in total for the 3 days. I don't think they had expected people to actually be interested in having an AA this year, from past numbers. I'm sure that the dealer's staff is going to look in to how to make it better for everyone next year.

make sure if you had specific complaints to email the convention, the staff can't help make things work out better without attendee input.

Hope you come back down next year!

We did talk to plague about it, and a few other people have already spoken to staff about it, as well as given suggestions. Myself, I don't know the entire layout of the hotel, so it's difficult to give any suggestions on possibilities of moving it for next year.

hope you had fun ^^

When the con starts to get a lot of people, it gets hard to have an efficient artist alley. I remember at another con, a few years ago, there had to be a hundred people in the artist alley stuffed into row after row of tables. I don't think hardly anyone made any decent money because there were soooo many artists there that the money was diluted too much. Then you have the folks trying to vend products out of the artist alley instead of trying to get into the dealer den. This part of the con can be a real headache sometimes.

Yeah. There weren't overall that many people wanting in though, there were just so few spots that hardly anyone got in.
Apparently the year before, they didn't have but two people in the artist's alley, and so they shrunk it by a lot, not expecting that many people to want to be in. However, more people than they thought were going to, showed up. Six (half table) spaces were not enough this time. Many people got left out.
I know that the first year I attended that con, they had it in a location that nobody could actually find it. It was very much out of the way and upstairs, while most of the events were going on downstairs. Con staff and artists were putting up papers with directions to it, but hotel staff kept ripping them down... And not even because they weren't allowed to post things on the walls. They absolutely were allowed. :/