>>42373844
This is my main issue with the direction the con has been going. Why do we need to expand so much when the target audience was already reached during Mare Fair 1? We'd be far better off limiting attendance and growing stably and slowly, but they want to bring in a flood of people to dilute the experience. So many people, that they cant hardly bring on enough staff to handle it and it will probably be a technical shitshow once again. They're so desperate for staff that they are offering early badge purchase for next year for anyone who does staff this year, which is insanely retarded. This fucks over and further limits the number of badges for people who support the cons in other ways, like making panels for your con, or vendor merch, or even just the people who can't spare the time to volunteer, so they get a higher tier badge. This really is the last year to really see if Mare Fair will go down like all the rest of the cons, homogenized, debased, and infested by furries, or if it can truly be a great con that people are proud to be apart of.