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I just got an email from Comic Con about 2012 badge sales and how it might be next to impossible to secure a badge for this years comic con. Here is some info:
Because of limited space at the San Diego Convention Center, we are required to limit attendance and do not have enough badges for everyone who would like to attend the show. Unfortunately, the high demand and limited availability can make buying a badge challenging and time-consuming. Although we are working hard on our registration system to make buying your badge a better experience, we want you to know what to expect during badge sales and have provided you with a very detailed document “Comic-Con 2012 Helpful Hints and Tips for Online Badge Registration” available for download now at http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_reg.php.
Reading this downloadable PDF may help you complete your badge purchase more efficiently and could give you an advantage over people who do not choose to read it.
If you have already purchased a badge for Comic-Con 2012, or if you are a professional, exhibitor, or member of the press who do not plan on purchasing a badge during open online registration, please disregard this e-mail notice. You are receiving this courtesy notice because you have signed up for a Comic-Con Member ID.
Thank you,
Attendee Registration
Comic-Con International
All I can say is this that getting tickets to the 2012 Comic Con might be hard – Best of luck to everyone and I will keep everyone updated with all the info you need for the 2012 SDCC.
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I have been shaking my head over the whole pre-registration nightmare that has now, with this latest announcement from CCI, come into focus.
I and my wife have been attending Comic-Con San Diego for over 20 years now – we routinely stay in hotels, shop in the Gaslamp/downtown area and spend $$$ in the Dealer’s room – now, for the first time, we are seriously thinking of not bothering. Are we really the demographic that CCI wants to get rid of? Think about the implications of the recent changes:
1 – you have to wait approximately 2 to 3 hours in line (at-site where you miss your panels, or on-line, where you can’t open another browser or you get kicked to the back of the line, so don’t get any productive work done – talk about lost $$$ – 145,000 people x 3 hours each… that is a major hit on the economy) just to get a CHANCE at a ticket, and probably not the number or type of ticket you wanted in the end.
2 – CCI said they were making the process more ‘fair’ – I long for the old days (two years ago!) when you could just finish checking in, walk 50 feet to the pre-reg lines and pay for your next year’s membership – you were out in 10 minutes! Now everyone is inconvenienced the same – at a tremendous hit to the ‘fun’ experience that used to be CCI. The pre-reg process wasn’t that broken and it certainly didn’t need this much of a rube-goldbergian ‘fix’.
3 – CCI increased the price of tickets – presumably to cut out the ‘marginal’ fans who don’t spend as much in the dealer’s area but:
As a result, many old-timers (and I suspect a lot of ‘new-timers’) will be saying ‘not this year’ and maybe ‘never again’ – so ironically CCI will have achieved its goal of reducing attendance at the expense of letting in only people who don’t have enough of a life to have something better to do for 3 hours than wait in lines. I hope these fans have a lot of money to spend but, if they have that kind of time to waste, I doubt it. Actually when you think about it – they are selecting for people who are used to standing in lines – these are the people that already stand in line all day for Hall H and the main program items and don’t spend much time in the dealer’s room anyway.
With the preview night tickets now highly restricted – which was the only time this line-waiting demographic actually had to shop in the Dealers room before the line-waiting began – wait until the Dealers notice that the attendees are not spending as much – that will provoke some reactions…
4 – if you can’t be sure you will get tickets, you won’t be pre-booking hotels a year in advance – or, if you do, you will be cancelling them when you don’t get tickets – the scrum for hotel rooms immediately before the con (typically just bad) is going to be insane. Watch hotels increase prices this year to match CCI’s price increases.
I may go to Wondercon instead since it is conveniently close this year (Anaheim) and call it a day.
Excellent write up
Thank you very much for the comment!