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General Convention Discussion / Re: Clockwork Alchemy: Is this where my Fanime money is going?
« on: February 22, 2014, 02:06:04 PM »At least you get free admission included with your Fanime ticket. I agree that it feels like Fanime is a ghost of its former self, I still enjoy it. I suppose that by them running two cons, there's a little bit of something for everyone to enjoy.
I mean, I feel like this is part of the problem. It's not necessarily "free admission," because you're paying for it with your Fanime registration. When you go to register for Clockwork, it takes you to the Fanime reg page. So this means they're using your money from Fanime reg to run Clockwork. I understand the advantages of having "a little bit for everyone," but that really shouldn't mean a whole different con being run alongside Fanime. This is also a problem for people who are fans of both things, because they would not be able to do all the things they want to at both cons. There might be wonderful panels and events that take place at the same time at both cons, and people would have the stress of just not being able to make it to them.
Ultimately, I just don't think it's fair for everyone, fans of one thing and also for fans of both.
From what we been told in the days after Fanime was over in the feedback chaos, is that Clockwork has it's own staff. And that Fanime's problems was of its own lack of staff/in for seen problems. Fanime only helped in advertising Clockwork. So we been told.
Of course that may or may not be true. But that was the story they told us at the feedback panel and in the feedback forums.
If they say so, I guess there's really not much we can do to about it. If that is truly the case, as they say, then the main issue is still the money they're using for it. Also, it's more than them just being advertised by Fanime. Their registration is the same, so they're definitely being run together by Fanime itself.
I'll admit, this thread makes me curious about how much reg money goes to Clockwork. It's probably not a simple split since both cons share some resources (housing, shuttle, webspace, etc).
I know not EVERY dollar I spend on reg goes towards something I personally take part in, but when there's a whole other con under the same financial umbrella... eh...
Yeah, you're right that I also don't do every thing I pay for at Fanime, but that's simply due to not every person being involved in every aspect of the anime/Japanese media/culture spectrum. However, I'm just concerned that the money that should be going towards making Fanime a great experience every year, is being divided for a completely unrelated con. I don't believe it's a 50% split, but any amount is too much.
TLDR; If they want a steampunk con, they should have a steampunk con. But it should have separate registration.
