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NYCC: Comics Get Global at New York Comic-Con (PW Article)
ComicGirl:
That is correct. Related to NYCC only (not C2E2) they do not "turnsytle" in the traditional sense where they count you every time you walk in or out of the building, but if you buy a 3-day badge you are counted as three people , because (in his own words) "It's the total sum of everyone that was at the show this year." Meaning that there were X amount on Friday, X amount on Saturday, and X amount on Sunday, for a total of 77k people.
Lance is a bright guy. He knows how to work the numbers and market them to the media. Read his answer again and you will see he didn't actually answer the Newsarama question about unique ticket holders. He danced around it gracefully.
It doesn't really matter to me either way (he's brilliant at marketing, props to him!), but to claim they had 20,000 counterfeit badges or people who snuck in 2012 is absolutely absurd. NYCC is a good enough convention that they shouldn't have to use such tactics. I went this year and it was a great show! I actually think that being a smaller convention than the big San Diego mess is a benefit to NYCC fans, not a deterrent. Inflating their numbers just makes them look desperate.
karatekid:
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Register or LoginOn a somewhat related side note, I went to NYCC and on Saturday gave my badge to someone else who needed it after I tapped in. I spent the rest of the day walking around the show without a badge and was never stopped by their security. It was just as easy to share their RFID laminate badge as it was a regular non-RFID badge.
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So you are admitting on this board to all that you violated their policy and contributed to the number of people who "snuck in." It's a bold move since we have a member from NYCC's board/operations that comes on periodically!
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karatekid:
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Register or LoginLance is a bright guy. He knows how to work the numbers and market them to the media. Read his answer again and you will see he didn't actually answer the Newsarama question about unique ticket holders. He danced around it gracefully.
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Yeah, having attended all 4 days, their preliminary number of 133,000 seems way high. That's about SDCC range and believe me, not even at the busiest point on Saturday did it feel like even Preview Night busy/density at SDCC. I just didn't see it or feel it so either they did such a strategic job of booth placement, walkway traffic, etc. or the numbers are indeed inflated or skewed a certain way.
YouThinkMeMad:
See, I'm in the other camp. To me, having been to NYCC before, I felt that this year was VERY crowded. I hated it to be honest. I honestly felt more relaxed and felt I had more space at SDCC this past year. But that's just my opinion.
Do I feel like it was 130,000 people? No. But did feel overcrowded for the space.
alyssa:
i barely feel qualified to write since i neither attended nor do i have access to the raw numbers or equations but i do know RFID chips allow for an accurate head count vs the mushy numbers of paper badges which by definition rely on turnstyle methods of counting.
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