Are there Enough Elite Fans to Fill a Convention Center?

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
Banana's_Are_Good_For_You said:
@GreySix
What do they do at these kinda things?
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Odds on its an extended sales pitch for jpegs and pledges...
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FixMeNow

FixMeNow
Frontier would have to pay me to go.

I still would decline, rather them spend the money on content for the game.

Which they wouldent.
 

Christopher Roberto

C
varonica said:
Thinking that the popularity of a game is determined by the number of fans willing to pay AU$300 for a ticket to a convention is a bit....well "elitist", don't you think? Even if it was held in my home town and I didn't have to pay for travel and accommodation I still wouldn't pay that much for a ticket and I have thousands of hours in the game and paid for every expansion and beta play opportunity. Working your fans up into a frenzy such that they are willing to pay stupid money for stuff is the realm of conmen, scalpers and fraudsters, no thanks, I didn't even vote for the monorail!
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It's a good measure of how much passion is left in a community. Like, we used to spend a lot to make Quake LAN parties happen and there was no conman involved.
 

knowles2

K
ubermick said:
Back to the original point, while Frontier doesn't host its own EliteCon, there was LaveCon which is on hiatus at the moment (last one was last year, there was none this year not sure of the future of it).

Here's the group drone photo from a pre-pandemic flavour, back in 2018:

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I'd say maybe 250 people? Granted this was a fan-run thing, and not something overly glitzy and corporate. Recently the Buur Pit had their own event "Pitcon" where I think they had something like 75-100 people.

I'd imagine if Frontier did something "official" that was slickly done with guests like David Braben and some tasty swag, they'd get 1,000 or so people? (Not to say Lavecon and Pitcon weren't well done!)
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They did their own thing, Frontier Expo 2017, I say that got less than a 1,000 people. it was good but not where near at capacity. I think they do substantially better if they did one today, with Elite Dangerous, jurassic Park, Planet Zoo/Coaster, F1 Manager, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin - Frontier

I don't think Frontier would ever do their own just Elite Dangerous event.
Personally I suspect they will never do another Frontier Expo as such live events have gone out of fashion, excluding Gamescom.

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Vingtetun

Vingtetun
ubermick said:
Back to the original point, while Frontier doesn't host its own EliteCon, there was LaveCon which is on hiatus at the moment (last one was last year, there was none this year not sure of the future of it).

Here's the group drone photo from a pre-pandemic flavour, back in 2018:

9su73Z3.jpeg

I'd say maybe 250 people? Granted this was a fan-run thing, and not something overly glitzy and corporate. Recently the Buur Pit had their own event "Pitcon" where I think they had something like 75-100 people.

I'd imagine if Frontier did something "official" that was slickly done with guests like David Braben and some tasty swag, they'd get 1,000 or so people? (Not to say Lavecon and Pitcon weren't well done!)
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Don't forget ECM... 175 of us together this summer, running again summer 2024. And frontier Expo back a few years ago which did indeed have DB and stacks of people.
 

Taimaru

Taimaru
I've thoroughly enjoyed ECM, LaveCon, and FX2017 so if the opportunity comes up for another one of those events, I'm defnitely up for it. Elite: Dangerous is still my favourite game of all time and the people that go to these events (CMDR's and Frontier people) are all wonderful people. A huge thank you to those that organise these events.
 
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