Quote Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard View Post
Firstly, I appreciate you remaining civil even if I was a little snarky in my response. That said, it's not a case of not being to afford the ticket, rather a case of not being prepared to pay that much. Unless people vote with their wallets on things like this then S-E will continue to give a second-rate service to the Euro playerbase, as I felt was the case with FFXI.
£65 (exchanged) in the US is different to £65 in the UK is different to £65 (exchanged) in Germany. The cost of living in each country is different, the average wage and what portion of that is considered disposable income. So to say that just because the US get three days in Vegas compared to the EU getting one day in London is imbalanced doesn't show an appreciation of global economics.

I think it's a perfectly acceptable price for a whole-day event (cheap, even) - in fact I wish the cost of the VIP had been significantly higher so that a few of those 200 lucky souls would have been put off in that first eight seconds of sale, enabling me to get a pair!

What I'm saying is each to their own. You may not think £65 is worth paying and that's fine, but don't think for an instant that there aren't 2,000 FFXIV players in the EU for which £65 hits their wallet from two hours' salaried work.

I do concur that travel and accommodation for non-England residents drives up the cost of attending the event significantly, and perhaps somewhere more central like Paris would have been a good idea, but presumably S-E piled the postcodes of all active subscribers into a Google Map api and saw that there were proportionally more players in England than anywhere in the rest of Europe. Presumably. Or it could be that the venue's up the road from the S-E Europe offices.