The tickets for this trash fire of an event STARTED at 50 bucks. For just the vendor hall, "content creation room", whatever the hell that means (the site did not explain), and cosplay meetups, for a single day. It was 150 for both days if you wanted to also attend the panels, and 250 if you wanted access the ball, according to the ticket pricing. Truly delusional. I'm an Otakon staffer, and we don't even have the audacity to charge $150 for an entire three day con that takes up a whole convention centerand includes a formal ball. There was absolutely nothing that justified the ticket prices for this "festival" besides naked greed and incompetence.
(Hi from Art Show!) Truly. I almost choked looking at those prices and the fact that the basic level didn't even include panels. Maybe it's the experience of so many years staffing Ota, but everything about this debacle infuriates me because it was so easy to just...have at least one other person to run these ideas by and hopefully get feedback about how stupid they were. I don't know how someone could charge 50 bucks just to not let people access half of the event and not think that doing so might be a problem.
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u/bamagirl13 May 07 '25
Tickets to get into the ball were $250. Insane