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The Olympics weren't cancelled because they couldn't pull it together logistically it's because countries were starting pull out. Same thing will likely happen to SDCC if they don't proactively cancel, we will see studios, publishers, etc decide to skip.
Exactly, the longer they wait the more badge refund requests they'll get. They keep the 10% fee but I doubt they'll be able to resell all the returns. And they'll get lots of negative buzz for holding a "lesser" con since lots of studios and vendors will pull out. But maybe they really want to return to their roots as a comic book convention?
Perhaps, but why wait for a once-in-a-hundred years pandemic to make a return to roots? That seems like bad PR.
I guess this is a worst case example of the kind of complications that can arise when a convention is cancelled. Hopefully, this is a one-off unique situation, but also demonstrates why parties sometimes need to wait for certain conditions to be met before they can officially cancel.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Yeah I don't like this waiting til June decision either nor the idea of putting on a lesser con. That'll also mean they plan on holding hotel sale sometime in April or May and want us to put down several hundred dollars for hotel deposits. And that'll put us in a spot where we'll try to figure out if we want to spend that much money for a lesser con. There's technically not wrong with their putting on a smaller con with minimal movie and TV panels but that's not worth the badge costs that they charged us. And that's not worth the costs of the super expensive hotel rooms that they want to charge us either.
I can't fault them for reserving the right to wait until June to make a decision as so much could change (for the better or for the worse) by then. I guess it's also a risk that we take when we buy badges knowing nothing about the schedule. But regardless, I'm not going to participate in Hotelpocalypse because I don't think there's much value in any of the three scenarios:A) SDCC gets canceled/postponed. In this case, hotels will be refunded.B) We get some semblance of SDCC but it's not the usual. Demand will be drastically reduced. In this case, those who book at hotelpocalypse prices with a non-refundable deposit will get shafted, since plenty of hotels will be available for much cheaper closer to the show. C) Everything gets cleared up and we get a real SDCC. Even then, I don't expect it to be too difficult to get something closer to the show at average prices. Last year it was possible without too much difficulty...and this year it will be easier because even if it goes back to normal, some things will have changed permanently. More people are afraid of large crowds. Less money to go around. Plans that have dropped due to uncertainty may not be able to be picked back up by the time SDCC officially announces it's on. As you can see from the poll...about 1/3 of us aren't keen on going, and we're the diehards.