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One positive quirk of the new floor plan for Spiel 2013 — in which Halls 1-3 were used instead of Halls 4-12 — was that publishers weren't segregated as much as in previous years. They couldn't be! After all, with only three halls you're almost guaranteed to have large and small publishers in the same hall. In this case, the enormous Hall 3 — which had one of the Messe's two entry points — had all of the large publishers concentrated in two-thirds of its length, while medium-sized and tiny publishers like Ságaze filled the back third. When asked about the change, a number of those small publishers said traffic seemed better as German families didn't just scoot around Halls 10-12, then jet out the door, but instead kept wandering down Hall 3 until they unexpectedly ran across someone like Asyncron, Surprised Stare Games, or the Korean Pavilion. Half the battle of getting people to pick up your games is for them to know you and your games exist, so this change seemed like a plus for all.
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