Play almost always at someone's house. We have a mini-con/club that meets 4 times a year that brings together about 20 people. I've played twice in a store - it was ok I guess but I've never felt the desire to do so again.

2010-2015, mostly with a home group (or online) running a game every 2-3 weeks (4-6 hour length)

2016-2017, mostly conventions running 5-7 games of 4-6 hour length (Gary Con, NTRPG Con, Gamehole)

My regular game is a home game, we play long sessions once or twice a month. I also regularly play in one-shots at other home games.

I enjoy conventions and try to attend several per year. I love playing with strangers at Cons, almost always an amazing experience.

I have had a couple of poor store-game experiences, and a couple of excellent ones.

Mostly homes and stores. FLGS are more like "the nerd bar," with more chips 'n soda, going around wide open table spaces, with bright lights to read rules.

Done the restaurant and bar thing, too. But bars tend to be too dim, restaurants too cramped for table space, and overall you best not abuse your welcome of camping out a table so long.

I try to never do Cons. After working them for the dealer's booths the romance is gone. Not even that interested in the new stuff put out (and it's mostly boardgames, which I no longer care about). Only reason I have left is to go is to catch up with acquaintences with a pick up game, and at those prices let's hit a bar or restaurant instead.

I used to game, occasionally, at SF cons, when I was still doing SF cons.  Haven't run a con game since ... 1993?

Used to game at the UMass-Boston SF club, but haven't since moving out of the area in 1988; haven't gamed at a club since.

Never have gamed out of a store; I've a whole mini-rant on the subject.

It's been homes pretty much since 1986 and exclusively since 1993.

Regularly, yes, but not most of the time.

I am a member of the local university's wargame club, and have been, first as a student and then as an alumnus, for over 35 years.  The club has met in the student union every Saturday (and in the past on Wednesdays as well, but these young kids don't have any stamina any more) since 1974. The student union meeting rooms have everything that a GM might want--white boards, dry erase markers, unlimited supplies of food and soft drink on site, rooms that are actually somewhat clean in any size from a table and half a dozen chairs to the grand ballroom (which the club used to use twice a year for free for miniature naval battles, until someone on the union staff changed the reservation policy.)

With this resource, have only had in home game sessions a couple of times in my life.  My experience with conventions has been uniformly pretty bad.  I have occasionally played a quick board or card game at the local game and comic store, but the club's location is more comfortable anyway.

Never, always played with family and friends.

Always family friends, even when at GenCon me and three friends always game together. I could see myself having fun with random folk, but never have had the need or surplus time.

75% of my gaming has always been in public venues - conventions, game days, FLGS events, Meetups events, and back in the day meetups before Meetup.com exists. Our high school RPG club was through the local recreation center where we met every Friday and our college RPG club had the pick of various "study rooms" to split into for games.

My minis gaming is probably 90% in public venues and boardgaming probably 50/50.

90% of my gaming is private. With family and friends. Less than 10% is conventions and public venues. For five out of the last seven years I have not attended a convention at all, and only started attending again last year after having two convention seasons in a row with really poor experiences in 2011 and 2012, While I did not attend conventions over the last few years until just last year, I have hosted a few games online for the general public, ...however stopped doing that again in the spring of this year, and am content to run just about 100% private games. The only reason I even attend game shows is to help a few friends with their gaming business, and to meet a few other gaming friends I haven't seen in quite a few years.

My best friend from high school is dead already. My second best friend from high school moved to Germany, permanently. Being half German like me, he cares little for the hypocrisy that is the United States. Third and fourth friends from my original gaming group are strung out on drugs, and have accomplished absolutely nothing with their lives, not even raising a family, I haven't spoken or correspended with them in almost two decades. Fifth friend lives about a thousand miles away, and we speak every few years, and exchange Christmas Cards now and again.

My youngest son likes some gaming, and there are a few gaming friends I have made over the years and we get together once in awhile and game. There's a new college group that started gaming with me last year, and we are all still playing, hopefully we'll get in a game before Thanksgiving.

So, mostly home play. I'm thinking of starting up a second group, but only because I want to run Traveller and MindJammer games, and maybe a few Fallout IV games, if Modiphus will hurry on up, and get some minis made I can use to game with.

I might actually run a EPT game as well, if I can scrounge up Swords & Glory, Book II. I kind of want to try running a game using the Empire of the Petal Throne RPG rules instead of running a Tekumel game using D&D.

I currently play in two different private groups with friends, however I will say that I was running games in a local club for a couple of years previous and this was a good way to recruit players in the first place.

For about 8 years cons were pretty much my only way to RP due to living in the middle of no-where. Before that 99% of my gaming was at the local library in a room rented by a gaming club that I later became the owner and organizer of. Not counting the occasional times GMed for family.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1007150So, I was curious as to just what the ratio is here of people who do most of their gaming at cons or at regular play events at stores or clubs, versus people who do most of their gaming at home (theirs or someone else's)?

I run this: https://www.meetup.com/London-Darkness-Roleplaying-Club/

So yeah...

I love it.

I visit two Cons a year where I'll play and run. Other than that it's almost entirely online, 13 hours a month, with a trusted group of players whi get along well with no hassle or bs. There is an occasional family game at home but it's irregular.