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You want something that's fair and also selects for good con-goers. It "costs" more to line up hours in advance for a midnight movie showing too, but that's the
by rriepe 6y ago
You want something that's fair and also selects for good con-goers. It "costs" more to line up hours in advance for a midnight movie showing too, but that's the kind of person you want at your con.
The system they're using now gives a leg up to obsessive groups of friends who all really want to go together. Switch to something "fair" and next year it'll be all the boring 9-5 people with no friends.
- michaelt 6y agoTo an extent - but random releases of tickets tend to benefit people with desk jobs and soft-touch supervision. My boss doesn't mind if I'm keeping an eye on a festival website when my code's compiling, and I take 15 minutes to book a ticket when they go on sale. But a call centre worker or a doctor or a teacher or a production line worker isn't in the same position.
- lmm 6y agoSounds like that's selecting for "good con-goers" as well. You want enthusiasm, but you also want people who can afford to buy things that are being sold there and drink in the hotel bar.
- gambiting 6y agoA doctor can absolutely afford to do those things, but they probably can't buy the tickets due to the nature of their work.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoThen just sell only to the people what went last year first if this is your explicit goal? You could also use some sort of sponsor system if you want to preserve some sort nerd purity; it just seems more honest than using an onerous ticket buying process to reach that same goal of preserving the visitor mix.
- ulucs 6y agoI'm just taking them at their word that they want a fair ticketing system for the everynerd. If we want to optimize for obsesiveness, a much better solution would be letting people line up at the convention venue and letting only a number of people in while collecting payments at entrance.