I think you're thinking of UCon as a member of the wrong set of things. It isn't a specialty fannish con, it's a broad-spectrum gaming con. They're fundamentally different events, just like ConFusion isn't "a really limited media con with some fringe activities" or "a pretty lame gaming con with good parties" or "the worst gun show I've ever attended". And UCon isn't "a science fiction con with a great gaming track, but really shitty literary programming, and no filk, dammit".
Providing everything to all people is relative. UCon has never been anything but a gaming con. That's what it was founded as, and that's what it is today. But within gaming, some cons take the approach you are advocating: they focus on board gaming, or card gaming, or role-playing, or a couple of those, to the exclusion of everything else. (An extreme example is Ambercon, which does just diceless roleplaying, with very few departures from that.) UCon doesn't do that, though it could have, and there were several specific turning points where we deliberately decided not to specialize.
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Date: 2009-08-29 03:12 pm (UTC)Providing everything to all people is relative. UCon has never been anything but a gaming con. That's what it was founded as, and that's what it is today. But within gaming, some cons take the approach you are advocating: they focus on board gaming, or card gaming, or role-playing, or a couple of those, to the exclusion of everything else. (An extreme example is Ambercon, which does just diceless roleplaying, with very few departures from that.) UCon doesn't do that, though it could have, and there were several specific turning points where we deliberately decided not to specialize.