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Not good enough to just refund the ticket price. That won’t cover the additional cost of traveling there. Surely there must be some form of sanction against over selling tickets, but being Ireland, probably not.
@Dilly Dong: the place was full of grown men and women playing the game while the kids that were there could not get a chance on the games it was pathetic.
@Dilly Dong: All us moaners and nerds on the journal.ie would probally end up dying to be honest. God forbid we would all be in a que with eachother, with some decrying communism, others that Trump is the saviour and all inbetween trying to poont out logical fallacies at eachother in attempts to claim some sort of superfical victory. Yea, we would all certainly die, the gamer nerds merely just go around saying ‘your mom’ at eachother.
Why should kids skip the line? They probably got discounted tickets and and no doubt adults appreciate the experience just as much as them if they’ve paid for a ticket. I hate parents who feel like just because they have cute children everyone else should care too. I have 2 kids by the way.
Got in queue at 1030, was lucky to get indoors at 1100. Utter chaos inside, overcrowded, couldn’t turn around without hitting someone.
Just to move around between floors, queues because of the crowds trying to get on the escalator.
Queues 5 and 6 deep around every stand.
Incredibly badly organized.
The organisers have questions to answer on the safety, they had to know exactly what amount of tickets were sold. And convention center should have ensured the maximum number was adhered to.
@David Vaughan: Same. Left an hour later as it was not safe for a 9 year old. Decided not to use the weekend ticket. Guess what, no refund for us. I will not support this ever again.
Apparantly people being told they can gain entry tomorrow on a saturday ticket if you couldnt get in. If thats the case itll be worse tomorrow than today. Not sure if ill go tomorrow, havent broke the news to my daughter yet
@Geraldine Lawlor: same. Im leaving at the crack of dawn to head up to Dublin but ive warned her what it may be like. Really hoping its not as bad as today!
@Sam: Hi Sam. Just signed up to journal to give you my advice. If you are guaranteed your money back I would skip it and spend the money on something for your daughter. It was pretty awful. We got in after 40min delay. Ground floor is a gamestop shop plus a few other stalls, and an area for people to play games on an assortment of platforms. 1st floor is a competition area that is mostly just waiting for a competition to take place. 2nd is VIP meet and greet with 2nd rate you tubers. And 3rd floor is the auditorium with occasional talks. Overall grubby, packed and just not worth it. And just to note the VIP ticket appears to be a real swizz. Doesn’t get you in a lot faster. And forget the app. Its schedule times bears could beat be described as alternative facts.
Don’t go I was there with the kids today.It was probably one of the worst experiences of my life.The kids did not in joy themselves at all.We couldn’t even move in the rooms.
There are over a dozen, volunteer run gaming hobby conventions in Ireland (board games, role playing games & video games) in addition to the comic cons and cosplay cons that are run to a very professional degree, are immense fun and have never had, in my experience over 20 years, such catastrophic poor planning – unless it was a conscious decision, of course. A lot of these are on http://irishgamingwiki.com/wiki/Front_Page if you want to explore your hobby at a well-run event.
Honestly the worst event I have ever been at .Qued for over an hour and then told we could not get in.Walked away then tried the main door and literally just walked in.The main forum was beyond shite!A big glorified GameStop really!Feel bad for the kids who did not get in!
@8bitplebian: I was there with my 9 year old, terrible half the games were taken with grown men playing them with the kids not getting a chance and the place was very dangerous it was that full my son started panicking we had to leave will never go to another one of these again.
@Peter Cavey: sorry but I’d have to agree with Martin. We bring these problems on ourselves most times. Same trouble at a local play centre out my way, people standing in the rain for hours waiting to get in to an over crowded facility instead of bringing their kids to the park or the beach or hill walking and teaching them how to have fun without getting sucked in to the madness of ‘first world problems’. I drove passed the centre thinking why would they stand in the rain outside some pissy place when they could be in a playground in the rain enjoying themselves for free?
Anyone sold a valid ticket . Should take the ccd and the event organisers to small claims court.
Claim their expenses and the distress caused. This is nothing more then greed . They new the max capacity of the venue. Very poor show indeed.
@Suzie Sunshine: you can claim for your time the money you spent . IE hotel train bus fuel. Also your time and the the waste of said time. It all has value.
This is what happens when Commerical organization does not know it’s client base. To expect young gamers with their parents to rotate quickly is not going to happen.
They need a bigger venue, very badly organized. A refund is no good to parents and disappointment if customers today.
i’m just so glad i didn’t decide to go. Dublin Comic Con, which is also head in the dublin convention center, is a better option for people who couldn’t get into gamercon. more people in costumes too
Absolutely disgraceful and a complete and utter shambles all because of greed in over selling the event. Hundreds turned away ??? More like thousands. The queue was like the bloody Great Wall of China. Queuing for hours and still no sign of the entrance. The queue snaking around adjacent buildings and streets, never seen anything like it. Spoke to people that did get, they where saying it was like sardines, couldn’t see or get to anything, downright dangerous.
Full unconditional refund expected.
Monkey see, monkey do. The government is ripping us off, vulture funds are ripping us off, the EU is ripping us off, sure ticket sellers were bound to start doing it eventually. Oh wait….
My lads went today, luckily they were there when the doors opened. I say luckily, it really wasn’t, they both said it’s the worst convention they’ve been to. 3 merch stands, a retro games section. Not worth the price of the tickets, I wouldn’t bother trying to go tomorrow.
This looks like plain and simple greed and may be illegal.
They should not have sold a single ticket over the capacity of the venue.
People should sue.
It was an absolute disgrace there today. The fact that they have said they will allow today’s tickets be used tomorrow proves their greed and lack of respect for the health, safety and comfort of their patrons. I left after three hours 12.00 -15-00 and was just half way round. Even if i had stayed it would have been over before i had of got in by what i had seen.
It has turned into an unmitigated disaster – and another day to go!
Someone needs to be massive fined for this – but thanks to elected, Ireland does bugger all accountability!
Managed to get in the front door while security wasn’t looking after queuing for an hour. It was pure crap. Only a few stands inside. You had to queue for 40 minutes to try anything on those stands. Over a 2 hour wait for to try the virtual reality. What a joke of a conference. No one at any stand accepted vip tickets.
@Peter Cavey: Some people DO live in caves. Now that’s a genuine reason to complain. And even then they probably don’t because they understand there are people worse off again.
The capacity claims by the organisers are ridiculous , The top floor was closed, the auditorium that seats 2000 was only partly used and never more than a quarter full, subtract that from their claimed total and you will have a true reflection of what numbers they should have worked with 5000 max. they ran out of food by 1.30 pm and the list goes on, these guys are clowns,never ever will they see 1 penny from again.
ah, theres to many people cramming into dublin anyway and where theres free events, forget it. gone be the days when you’d have chance. its all queues now and sold out events. great for the capitalists though. enjoy!
Worst day of my ds life! My ds has Autism I lost my son “while standing beside him” due to crowd bashing! This event was a disaster a disgrace and completely and utterly unorganised!
Shocked to see this, then again it is for profit event.
Other gaming and scifi conventions have been running for 25 to 30 years with out treating people so badly.
I was discussed at the way gamer con was organised Young children standing in line for four hours to see Allie A and nothing to entertain them they were tired and boared and jumping on chairs running up and down the corridors and stairs.Accident waiting to happen and we cant blame the parents or children .The organisers should have Allie A there a lot early as it was mostly young children that was waiting to see Allie A No barriers up to dived people so people pushed in and cause Bedlem People got very Angery Never again would I go The boys enjoyed it but I did;nt It hard to watch children when it is so crowded and people pushing all the time,
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