I hate the tiered seating system. I can't believe people are okay with paying 10 times the amount of a weekend at MediaWest for one of those tickets when you only get one track of programming for your money. And have you seen that Creation is auctioning gold tickets on eBay now? People are paying $1000 for them. Is it still called scalping when it's done by the event's own organizers?

The sad thing is that if a lot of those fans attended a con like MediaWest, they'd be bored silly and not understand the appeal of a bunch of fans sitting around being fannish for 4 days.