Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
Look I'll be honest. Any big event is going to be a jungle. It will always be understaffed and be a mess. This happens in all conventions and fests for the most part. It is not exclusive to SQEX fanfest. While you can complain and whine because things weren't the way you envisioned them I would focus on making the best I can out of the event.

"Oh but they should've been more prepared" "Oh but it could've been better" "Oh they shoulda done this and that". But they didn't, and likely they won't.

1. This is an international company god knows how many contractors and outside organizers had a hand in the pie.
2. Said contractors probably don't get paid much and don't care about you or if they get fired
3. By the time the next fanfest rolls all those employees will be gone and new contractors and employees will be there so #2 will repeat itself
4. Most people will forget and the hype will be back for the next fanfest in 2 years. I'm sure 10 others will take the spot of each person who decides not to go anymore.

It is what it is. People here demanding to be treated like they are in some country club in Monaco they paid millions a month for. It's a cheap mass public event in the grand scheme of things. You are on your own. Count yourself lucky if you find a toilet in working order nearby. I'd just like to encourage people to be realistic about their expectations. You are on your own when you sign up for one of these.
You are out of your mind. There is no way people coming from the East or North or out of country were in anyway prepared for Vegas summer like this. I am a local to the region, and there are several things that even if other events are guilty of, does not excuse the situation. This is the last place for whataboutism. The event was not cheap for the people attending who needed to take flights, and book hotels on the strip. That level of consideration is necessary, we didn't just teleport to the convention center. Shadowbringers Fanfest was handled better than this, and that was because the weather wasn't as bad, there were less attendees, there was a more adequate amount of staff(they tried their best) and it was just planned better, particularly for things like the line management. Square Enix KNOWS how many people were going to this, they are the ones who sold the tickets!

The amount of crush possibilities was frankly horrific. If even a single person took a fall on the stairs leading to the monorail during exits, I am absolutely positive you would've had multiple severe injuries or even deaths. I've seen crush wounds, and crush deaths at poorly planned events, and in this heat, there should have been provisions to prevent that. The water situation/heat stroke potential only exacerbated the risks. It is awful to suffocate in a mass of human bodies that are on top of you.

When it comes to safety, you cannot say, "It is what it is." morally. Because that gets people killed. That's not me being overdramatic, it's the truth. Imagine saying something this stupid if someone actually did die.