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CCP: Sell more Fanfest Tickets

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Lallante
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
#41 - 2013-02-08 20:14:38 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
We're looking into what options we can explore to resolve this issue. We naturally want everyone who can come to Fanfest to be able to attend, but there are limitations at the moment, especially this late in the planning.



Get a bigger venue. Just do it.

**** the cost, make the extra tickets cost 2x as much, whatever...
Yusef Yeasef Yosef
Doomheim
#42 - 2013-02-08 20:33:04 UTC
Maybe have Fanfest at multiples locations at the same time and link them via sat feeds.

One in Iceland, one in Europe, one in North America, amd maybe one in Australia to start with.
Just have some Devs go to each.
Orlacc
#43 - 2013-02-08 20:34:59 UTC
Some great BS in this thread...."I have only weeks to live and my last wish was Fanfest....cough." Please just one more ticket.

"Measure Twice, Cut Once."
De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2013-02-08 20:38:35 UTC
Lallante wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
We're looking into what options we can explore to resolve this issue. We naturally want everyone who can come to Fanfest to be able to attend, but there are limitations at the moment, especially this late in the planning.



Get a bigger venue. Just do it.

**** the cost, make the extra tickets cost 2x as much, whatever...


You've never tried to actually rent a venue large enough to hold several thousand people, have you? It's not like you can just reserve one a few days out. Hell try renting a hall for a wedding reception for a couple hundred people, and you could easily have to schedule it 8 - 12 months out.

Now try doing that for 5 or 10 thousand. And then try changing it at the last minute.

Let me know how that works out for you.

De'Veldrin's Corollary (to Malcanis' Law): Any idea that seeks to limit the ability of a large nullsec bloc to do something in the name of allowing more small groups into sov null will inevitably make it that much harder for small groups to enter sov null.
Lallante
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
#45 - 2013-02-08 20:45:30 UTC
De'Veldrin wrote:
Lallante wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
We're looking into what options we can explore to resolve this issue. We naturally want everyone who can come to Fanfest to be able to attend, but there are limitations at the moment, especially this late in the planning.



Get a bigger venue. Just do it.

**** the cost, make the extra tickets cost 2x as much, whatever...


You've never tried to actually rent a venue large enough to hold several thousand people, have you? It's not like you can just reserve one a few days out. Hell try renting a hall for a wedding reception for a couple hundred people, and you could easily have to schedule it 8 - 12 months out.

Now try doing that for 5 or 10 thousand. And then try changing it at the last minute.

Let me know how that works out for you.



Who cares, just ******* do it. Eve is only 10 once.
Ai Shun
#46 - 2013-02-08 20:49:14 UTC
Lallante wrote:
De'Veldrin wrote:
Lallante wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
We're looking into what options we can explore to resolve this issue. We naturally want everyone who can come to Fanfest to be able to attend, but there are limitations at the moment, especially this late in the planning.



Get a bigger venue. Just do it.

**** the cost, make the extra tickets cost 2x as much, whatever...


You've never tried to actually rent a venue large enough to hold several thousand people, have you? It's not like you can just reserve one a few days out. Hell try renting a hall for a wedding reception for a couple hundred people, and you could easily have to schedule it 8 - 12 months out.

Now try doing that for 5 or 10 thousand. And then try changing it at the last minute.

Let me know how that works out for you.



Who cares, just ******* do it. Eve is only 10 once.


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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#47 - 2013-02-08 20:59:11 UTC
Lallante wrote:
Who cares, just ******* do it. Eve is only 10 once.


This is what happens when you let your toons look like Nikki Minaj.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2013-02-08 21:08:28 UTC
Lallante wrote:



Who cares, just ******* do it. Eve is only 10 once.


Just because something is impossible doesn't mean it cannot be done!

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WTF?

De'Veldrin's Corollary (to Malcanis' Law): Any idea that seeks to limit the ability of a large nullsec bloc to do something in the name of allowing more small groups into sov null will inevitably make it that much harder for small groups to enter sov null.
Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
#49 - 2013-02-08 21:11:50 UTC
10th Anniversary... you knew it would be busy, just pay the scalpers the $450 per ticket and be glad you got to attend at all...

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

Now with 100% less Troll.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#50 - 2013-02-08 21:12:46 UTC
Karl Planck wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
Tickets have been on sale for 6 weeks. Why would you buy plane tickets and book hotel rooms to attend an event to which you haven't purchased tickets?


in order to ensure that you could actually attend and not sleep outside? Booking the airline tickets is a bit of a PITA for me (multiple connections, making sure I am not commint to staying overnight, ensuring enough time between connections) as well as making sure rooms are available to stay in and that these are affordable (some rooms are EXPENSIVE). Holding off on the thing that people didn't expect to sell out is not suprising (i mean really, outside of the 1 day warning who expected tickets to sell out 1 week after the early bird ended?)


Booking airline tickets and hotels does not take 6 weeks.

Holding off on purchasing the tickets that represent the entire reason you're going is pretty surprising. Especially when they don't represent a very large portion of the total price (I'm not going because a plane ticket would cost me something like 3 Grand, but if I were, I'd make damn sure I had a fanfest ticket before dropping that 3 grand on a plane ticket.).

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v3rtigo
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
#51 - 2013-02-08 22:13:49 UTC
What if you were only able to afford the hotel a week ago and were waiting for next month to get the ff ticket?

Anyway, I think that is beside the point - no status or waring was given. Sure, "it's the 10 year anniversary, duh it's gonna be popular" and all. But this event has never been sold out before - it being sold out in February was not expected. And I suspect that's also why CCP fumbled the announcement.

We're recruiting and stuff.
Ai Shun
#52 - 2013-02-08 23:08:46 UTC
v3rtigo wrote:
What if you were only able to afford the hotel a week ago and were waiting for next month to get the ff ticket?


If your budget is that tight maybe it would have been better to plan ahead and save up for this trip in advance? Radical concept, I know.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#53 - 2013-02-08 23:19:18 UTC
Chribba wrote:
How does one fit 10000 ppl in a venu that only holds 5000?

I thought CCP had mastered the Planck generator.

"It is bigger on the inside."
CCP Fozzie
C C P
C C P Alliance
#54 - 2013-02-08 23:46:26 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Chribba wrote:
How does one fit 10000 ppl in a venu that only holds 5000?

I thought CCP had mastered the Planck generator.

"It is bigger on the inside."


Silly Tau, you can't put livestock into giant secure containers.

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samualvimes
Brothers At Arms
#55 - 2013-02-09 00:00:00 UTC
OK I'll admit I was feeling pretty poor so I decided I'd get the thing that would be the bottle neck first then take my chances with the rest.

That's why the ticket was first then the hotel the next month then the flights this month as they were the order of what I perceived would be demand/supply restricted soonest.


Anyone who did this the other way around claiming money issues is not too bright a cookie or more likely hasn't booked anything , was too late getting a ticket and is hamming up the crocodile tears.

my 2 cents, pennies, lire etc

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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#56 - 2013-02-09 00:19:17 UTC
RubyPorto wrote:
Karl Planck wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
Tickets have been on sale for 6 weeks. Why would you buy plane tickets and book hotel rooms to attend an event to which you haven't purchased tickets?


in order to ensure that you could actually attend and not sleep outside? Booking the airline tickets is a bit of a PITA for me (multiple connections, making sure I am not commint to staying overnight, ensuring enough time between connections) as well as making sure rooms are available to stay in and that these are affordable (some rooms are EXPENSIVE). Holding off on the thing that people didn't expect to sell out is not suprising (i mean really, outside of the 1 day warning who expected tickets to sell out 1 week after the early bird ended?)


Booking airline tickets and hotels does not take 6 weeks.

Holding off on purchasing the tickets that represent the entire reason you're going is pretty surprising. Especially when they don't represent a very large portion of the total price (I'm not going because a plane ticket would cost me something like 3 Grand, but if I were, I'd make damn sure I had a fanfest ticket before dropping that 3 grand on a plane ticket.).


Because common sense is too hard for them.

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samualvimes
Brothers At Arms
#57 - 2013-02-09 00:49:35 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
Karl Planck wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
Tickets have been on sale for 6 weeks. Why would you buy plane tickets and book hotel rooms to attend an event to which you haven't purchased tickets?


in order to ensure that you could actually attend and not sleep outside? Booking the airline tickets is a bit of a PITA for me (multiple connections, making sure I am not commint to staying overnight, ensuring enough time between connections) as well as making sure rooms are available to stay in and that these are affordable (some rooms are EXPENSIVE). Holding off on the thing that people didn't expect to sell out is not suprising (i mean really, outside of the 1 day warning who expected tickets to sell out 1 week after the early bird ended?)


Booking airline tickets and hotels does not take 6 weeks.

Holding off on purchasing the tickets that represent the entire reason you're going is pretty surprising. Especially when they don't represent a very large portion of the total price (I'm not going because a plane ticket would cost me something like 3 Grand, but if I were, I'd make damn sure I had a fanfest ticket before dropping that 3 grand on a plane ticket.).


Because common sense is too hard for them.


just proving that common sense is not all that common

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Scatim Helicon
State War Academy
Caldari State
#58 - 2013-02-09 01:00:05 UTC
The people saying just move to a larger venue are...amusing. Does Reykjavik even have any larger venues than Harpa?

Every time you post a WiS thread, Hilmar strangles a kitten.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#59 - 2013-02-09 01:10:52 UTC
Lallante wrote:
Who cares, just ******* do it. Eve is only 10 once.


Because Bigger Venues are free. Also Extant.


https://www.google.com/search?q=reykjavik+conference+centre&aq=1&oq=reykjavik+confe&aqs=chrome.2.57j0l3j62j61.10727&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
http://www.meetinreykjavik.is/PlanYourEvent/Venues/?

In case you can't figure out what we're getting at: HARPA seems to be the only venue in Reyjkavik able to accommodate 5,000 people. There are no bigger venues.

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Vendrin
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
#60 - 2013-02-09 02:28:07 UTC
No bigger venues, but last year they did speak about having multiple venues, such as using Harpa and Laugardalshöll (location of previous fanfests) which can hold about 5500 people as well.

As for everyone insulting other individuals back off. Fine we get you would have done things differently, and you think their choice of purchases was not the ideal way of going things, but who gives a ****, they want to go to Fanfest, CCP fanfest has never sold out before, and they are looking for other options. Just because you have the money to buy everything right away doesn't mean everyone else does.