Quote from: Admiral Donuts on February 12, 2014, 02:09:34 PMQuote from: Dracil on February 12, 2014, 12:11:40 PM
Also, LOL at requiring badges to get housing + lottery idea. Buy a badge, lose at lottery, have no housing. LOL.
Buy a badge, lose wi-fi connection, have no housing
Buy a badge, have to work, have no housing
Buy a badge, server crash, have no housing
Buy a badge, be unlucky, have no housing
Buy a badge, have even the slightest of inconveniences that delays you from getting on the housing website at 10:00:00.1, have no housing
Unlucky is the same as losing at lottery. And we actually dealt with all the other ones except for losing wi-fi connection (this is what backup lines like phone data plans are for) this year and still succeeded in getting housing.
But the point I was trying to make is that if they're tying housing to badges AND they are literally the ones in control of deciding LOL YOU LOSE at housing (as opposed to your own personal circumstances), then they need to be willing to start offering refunds if people can't get housing after buying their badges. This is why the lottery idea is just completely stupid.
If you really want a lottery system, then the process needs to be reversed. Open up housing *first* and individual badge sales later, and make it a requirement that if you reserve a room you also put down a non-refundable badge deposit. But this also means no more at-con next-year badge registrations unless they put those people through a different system and let them bypass the lottery.
But I don't think fanime staff is organized/efficient enough to even start doing that kind of thing without massive problems occurring just based on how registration has been handled in the past few years and other things I've heard.