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No glare = great. Yes, having the arcade not out in the open was a little bit disappointing compared to previous years, but losing the glare was worth it. Those of you without badges: tough.

hey man, i have friends who couldn't get in because of this. they're not really into anime, so spending $50 JUST to get inside of an already overpriced arcade would be a total rip-off.

more people = better competition for us + more profit for staff and vendors.

Exactly. I could understand an entry fee if the machines were free-play, but at 50 cents a pop - which is already pricy as far as fighting games go - that's a bit ridiculous.

Although it was kind of moot anyway because it got so lax from Saturday onwards that I never even had to show a badge to get in the room. There were also so many other doors leading into that room - I saw people coming and going from those all the time. So in retrospect I didn't mind as much that it was all shoved into one room, but I would've liked to see all that room better used by spacing the machines further apart.

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Agreed. Some machines seemed louder than others as well. Soul Caliber tended to drown out both CvS on its left and GG on its right. Better spacing would subject people to lower SPLs, reduce sound bleeding as deepbluevibes mentioned, and possibly allow you to ease the volume a bit - further reducing SPLs - which leads to my next point.

Lowering the sound levels would help a lot for those of us suffering from, or not wishing to suffer from tinnitus. My ears were ringing pretty heavily after just an hour in front of the fighting games, although I already suffer from tinnitus. I'm sure at those SPLs, the noise was enough to result in permanent hearing damage for people who played in front of those machines for an extended period of time.

Also did anyone happen to play my friend Don on CvS Saturday night? He was owning it up. 3+ hours and 40 straight wins on a single session of play. 8)

As for the arcade, I'm dissapointed that it's confined to a room. I really liked the casual feeling of having arcade games throughout the convention center.

Ditto that sentiment. I liked the atmosphere that the upper concourse level had when the arcade games were out there. Made the whole place seem lively, even through all hours of the night and morning.

A bunch of friends and I usually show up every year just to play the arcade games, mingle a bit, and take it all in. We don't usually buy badges or attend much of anything else. We were very disappointed to discover you needed a badge to get in, just to have to pay again to play the arcade games. I could understand paying to get into that room if all the machines were free-play but that's not the case. To make things worse, the cost per play is generally higher than that of the local arcades.

You would probably make a bit more from the arcades if the machines are out in a publicly accessible area. Please consider this for next year. Thank you. :)

That's really generous of you, especially considering the gas prices.  :shock:

Ditto on the kudos. I've considered doing something like this but with gas prices the way they are and my vehicle getting relatively low mileage, it'd cost me more than I'm comfortable with.